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And All Is Said: Memoir of a Home Divided by [Zareer Masani]

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In this unflinchingly candid memoir, Zareer Masani draws on the letters and diaries of his parents, charismatic politician Minoo Masani and his gifted wife Shakuntala, to paint an intimate portrait of two remarkable individuals and their prominent but very different families—the Masanis, Bombay Parsis, and the Srivastavas, UP Kayasths—united by marriage but divided by temperament, lifestyle and political affiliation. Minoo’s father Sir Rustom Masani was an ascetic scholar who scorned wealth and all the comforts it could buy. Shakuntala’s father, Sir J.P. Srivastava, arch-loyalist of the British Raj and viceregal councillor, made a fortune as a mill owner and brought up his daughter in the lap of hedonistic luxury. When the two fell in love and eloped, Minoo was a twice-divorced, left-wing Congress activist. Later, he became a founder of the pro-free-market Swatantra Party—a figure whom Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described as his ideological inspiration—leader of the Opposition in Parliament and a tireless campaigner against global Communism.

The author writes of his turbulent upbringing as an only child torn between the rival influences and attractions of his parents and grandparents; of the struggle to express his own sexuality in 1960s India; and of the stormy and agonizing breakdown of his parents’ marriage, which was closely interwoven with the political drama of Indira Gandhi’s rise to power and the Emergency she imposed.

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Zareer Masani has a doctorate from Oxford in modern history with a thesis on Indian nationalism. He is the author of Indira Gandhi: A Biography, Indian Tales of the Raj and India from Raj to Rajiv. He was a BBC current affairs producer for two decades and is now a freelance journalist and historian. He is currently writing a biography of Lord Macaulay, the nineteenth- century statesman who introduced English education to India. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B06XY3H9PX
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin (September 1, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 1, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3258 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 248 pages

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Jimmy Mathur

The Breakdown of a Promising Marriage

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 27, 2017

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This is an unusually honest account of the near disastrous marriage of the author's parents. It was published over 10 years after their deaths and comes to life because the author reproduces many letters exchanged from the time of their first attraction to one another, the first glimmer of a breakdown in their martial relationship, and their virtual final stage of mutual animosity. The author happened to be in closer contact with his mother,
so he has much more to say on the gradual decline of her physical and mental health. The book is recommended to a reader who may possibly have known the players in this drama, and to anyone interested in the detail of a marital breakdown.

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Alice Maud Mary

Fascinating, written with great affection.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 19, 2013

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I have thoroughly enjoyed this book and am grateful to the author, not only because of the history/ histories it relates but also because it has answered very many questions that I wanted to ask in the 1960s and never dared!

Satyaki

Rivetting must read

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on May 8, 2019

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Dr Masani's book is one of those that make you extremely sad when you've come to the last page and must part ways with it. The book is compelling and the intellectual strength of its writer is scintillating. There are two primary focusses of the book. Exploring a complex relationship between a mother and a son, and the story of lifes interwoven with the vissicitudes of independent India. In summary the best book I've read in a long time, it made me think deep about intricacies and complexities of human relationships, but at the same time entertained me immensely with its witty anecdotes and the stories of the rise and fall of some of the nation's most prominent men and women.

Shourya Sanyal

Throughly enjoyable

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on May 29, 2022

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A page turner like no other. The author has the gift of great writing. It traces his past back several generations without being boring for a minute. Amazingly well written

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Excellent read !!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on July 15, 2021

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Excellent read !!

Yogesh Kamdar

Five Stars

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on May 22, 2017

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Very tenderly and yet candidly told intimate story. Very touching.