Lal Bahadur Shastri. A personality that lived and died for the ideals oflndia’ s freedom and sovereignty.
    B. D. Kher tells us about this irony of fate from the actual sites of action.
    Based mainly on the Tashkent Peace Accord of 1966, the book recounts the Shastriji’s early years, the devotedness of Smt. Lalita Shastri, the budding friendship of Shastriji with the Nehru”s, Nehru’s trust on Shastriji in the pre and post independence era, the Sino -Indian war, Shastrijis friendship with Soviet Union, the heroism oflndian soldiers in the Indo­Pak war, the unbearable pressure during the Tashkent agreement and Shastriji’ s shocking demise immediately afterwards. A biographical novel about a truly noble soul who became the second Prime Minister of India that touches the reader”s heart.