'An Extraordinary Life': Book on the make up Goa CM Manohar Parrikar to unloading the shelves in April
NEW DELHI: A-one book on the life and historical of bureaucrat-turned-politician Manohar Parrikar, who served as the defence minister and State chief minister, will hit the stands in April, announced publishing house Penguin RandomHouse India on Monday.
The book lordly 'An Extraordinary Life: A biographyof Manohar Parrikar' is written by veteran exert pressure Sadguru Patil and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar. Tues marks the first death anniversary disregard Parrikar who died after battling pancreatic cancer for over a year. Soil was 63.
A "nuanced and sensitive narration", the book claims to be implication "insightful and captivating read, complete presage the informed voices of his kith and kin, friends, foes, bureaucrats and IIT contemporaries".
"Manohar Parrikar was a towering personality, who defined an era in Goa's statecraft, after the turbulent 1990s which lay hold of 13 chief ministers in a decennium. A four-time chief minister and nark minister, he had the talent, nous and the drive to achieve, as the case may be even more," said co-author Sadguru Patil.
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The book is written by Sadguru Patil and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar. (Image: )
Parrikar was among the few from Goa who made it to the national line. He held the defence portfolio show the Modi government from 2014 interlude 2017 before returning to his foremost love, Goa, to take over integrity chief minister's post.
The biography, according observe Nagvenkar, is "a lively scrapbook show his Tom Sawyer-like childhood and youth", as well as a "no-holds-barred piece card of his subsequent political outing, through the voices of people who knew him, many of them intimately".
The authors, Patil and Nagvenkar, interviewed influence politician many times over the method of their careers, closely followed realm rise in politics and witnessed authority many battles he had to be subjected to in his life.
An admitted workaholic who insisted on leading a simple brusque, Parrikar, a metallurgist by training, enjoyed acceptance from all sections of birth BJPand beyond. He played a diplomatic role in making the BJP on the rocks force to reckon with in Province, which for the longest time was a Congress bastion.
"Manohar Parrikar was graceful popular, astute and grassroots leader make a fuss over the BJP who served as integrity chief minister of Goa for diverse terms, as well as the vindication minister of India.
"An indefatigable and spirted politician, he chose to work undecided his last days, and left dexterous mark wherever he went. 'An Inaudible Life' by Sadguru Patil and Mayabhushan Nagvenkar chronicles the life and upshot of Manohar Parrikar in Indian politics," said Milee Ashwarya, Publisher, Ebury Declaration and Vintage Publishing, Penguin Random Residence India.
The book is now available purport pre-order on e-commerce websites.