(Ebook) One Life is Not Enough by K. Natwar-Singh ISBN 9788129132741, 8129132745, B00MIQTYSS

(Ebook) One Life is Not Enough by K. Natwar-Singh ISBN 9788129132741, 8129132745, B00MIQTYSS

Former Minister in charge of External Affairs, Kunwar Natwar Singh s
autobiography One Life Is Not Enough is an honest, searing account of
the veteran s life as a bureaucrat, politician, and cabinet minister.
Natwar Singh talks about his experiences in Delhi s political corridors
and sets the record straight on several events, including the Volcker
controversy. Summary of the Book Natwar Singh joined the Indian Foreign
Service and served as a bureaucrat for 31 years. He joined the Congress
Party in 1984, and became a Minister of State in the then Prime Minister
Rajiv Gandhi s council with the portfolios of steel, agriculture, and
coal and mines in 1985. In this much-awaited autobiography, the former
cabinet minister talks justly about his experiences and services in
various ministries. Singh has played a significant role in Indian
politics for more than twenty years and has been a part of some of the
most epochal events of independent India, including Indo-China talks and
the formation of Bangladesh. In 2002, when the Congress party came back
to power, Natwar Singh was appointed as the Minister for External
Affairs. But his eventful career saw its end with the Volcker Report in
the year 2005. His name appearing in the Iraqi food-for-oil scam forced
him to resign from the cabinet and eventually from the Congress party.
Singh talks about all these events and the ups and downs of the Congress
party in One Life Is Not Enough, an account of an insider. His
association with the party allowed him to observe some of the historical
events closely, and he talks about Pakistan in the 1980s, under the
rule of President Zia-ul-Haq, Indo-Chinese and Indo-USSR relations among
other sensitive developments.