Political Mysteries

About the Book The author, Mr. K.R. Malkani, through this book, explains various political issues which had drastic effects on the world. Who hatched the conspiracy of killing Mahatma Gandhi? How the former Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri died in suspicious circumstances? Under what mysterious circumstances was Pt. Deendayal Upadhyaya murdered? Why were the Kashmir Princess and Kanishka blown up? Likewise, there are many other issues with which the author has dealt.

These are the result of five years of his painstaking research that this book has turned out to be an excellent source of information about various political assassinations as well mysterious happenings.

Introduction Some ten years ago, a good friend of mine, Shri R. Chandrachudan, said to me that Gandhiji had been got bumped off by the British. I have known him since 1948 when he was a senior special correspondent of The Hindustan Times and me a sub-editor preparing the obituaries of ageing leaders like Mr. Jinnah, Maulana Azad, Sardar Patel, Acharya Kripalani, Sarojini Naidu, Sri Aurobindo and others.

We had all known that Nathuram Godse and his friends had killed Gandhiji. How did the British come into that picture? I could not believe my ears. But Chandrachudan was a senior, serious and seasoned journalist. And he used to be the right-hand man of Devadas Gandhi, Managing Editor of The Hindustan Times and son of the Mahatma himself. And he was saying it. So his statement could not be lightly dismissed.

And then something happened. The BBC announced on Saturday, July 19, 1997, that Aung San, the top Burmese nationalist leader, had been liquidated by the British on July 19, 1947 (vide The Asian Age, July 22, 1997).

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