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020			_a9780143417606(pbk.)
082			_a954.035 _bMAS
100			_aMasani, Zareer _912002
245			_aAnd all is said memoir of a home divided
260			_aNew Delhi _bPenguin Books _c2012
300			_axii,236p.
500			_ahttps://www.penguin.co.in/book/and-all-is-said/
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aUnited Kingdom _910820
650			_aCriticism _91311
650			_aBiographies _910993
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