About the Book

Agenda and Ideologies: Thoughts on Congress, Communism, Fascism & Others encapsulates Indian society from the days when even a telephone without a dial was a luxury to the Internet revolution and modern communication. From the 1955 flirtation with socialism that stymied India’s economic growth, to its jettisoning in 1991, ushering in liberalism, Prafull Goradia has been a witness to it all. The journey from Nehruvian politics to Modism—the reframing of West Asian relations by rapprochement with UAE and Israel, the Ayodhya saga of Babri Masjid and Ram Mandir, the rise and fall of Marxism and Fascism in the world, a new dawn for women in the armed forces and the deductive logic of Abrahamic faiths versus the inductive logic of Hinduism—Goradia’s range of discourse leaves the reader spellbound. The book is a bird’s eye view from someone who has grown up in the dawn of Independence and provides incisive insight into the last seven decades of free India.

About the Author

Born in Bombay in 1937, Prafull Goradia is a doyen of the tea industry, who quit a comfortable existence to plunge into the uncertain world of politics, his real passion. Elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1998 from the Bharatiya Janata Party, his interventions in many important matters, his parliamentary speeches on contemporary issues and participation in debates and contributions to policy-making were significant. Goradia has penned innumerable articles on global and national issues and several books: Profiles of Tea, Saga of Indian Tea, The Saffron Book, Hindu Masjids, Muslim League’s Unfinished Agenda, Anti-Hindus, Fly me to the Moon, Krishna Rajya, Saffron Awakening, Had Patel been Prime Minister, Jinnah Helped Hindus and Population Exchange. His works help contemporary readers view modern India’s political journey wearing an informed lens. He presides over The Indian School in Delhi, reputed for offering modern education with traditional Indian ethos.