I would urge the interested reader to look at https//www.maverickmemoirs.com (or scan the QR code at p. …) where I have compiled extracts from an oral history of Rajiv Gandhi’s premiership, including the Punjab issue, voiced by leading players of the time, including Chief Minister S.S.Barnala and P. Chidambaram, then minister of state for internal security in the home ministry. These are from Volume I of Rajiv Gandhi’s India (UBSPD, New Delhi, 1997) subtitled Politics: Nationhood, Ethnicity, Pluralism and Conflict Resolution. The four-volume publication is a faithful record of all discussions at ‘A Golden Jubilee Retrospective’ organized at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation on the fiftieth anniversary of RG’s birth. Many of the principal personalities of the Rajiv Gandhi period were still alive and active, and their reminiscences were recorded, transcribed, edited (by me) for ready comprehension, and then published under the overall supervision of Ashok Chopra, now with Hay House Publishers.

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