Ravi S. Iyer: Worldly

Last updated on  1st Jun. 2022 The Narasimha Rao book has fictional characters and background but clearly is mainly the author's memoir perhaps with little amount of fiction. The reader can make out the real characters and background corresponding to the fictional characters and background. For example, Anand is Narasimha Rao and Afrozabad is Nizam's Hyderabad state. [See 29th April 2022 update below.] The front cover of the book has this comment of former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee which I think is a powerful description of the book: "A profound contribution to the tradition of political memoirs because it is a mirror not of people but of the life and times they have lived in."  [On PC desktop, to open pic in larger resolution (if available), right-click on pic followed by open link (NOT image) in new tab/window. In new tab/window you may have to click on pic to zoom in.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._V._Narasimha_Rao informs us that Narasimha Rao was bo

When author of post or comment is not mentioned, it should be assumed that it is me (Ravi S. Iyer). To save time, I am usually not providing my FB post links but only contents. I am also not hyperlinking links. So readers may have to copy-paste links from this post onto a browser link box and then browse to that link. No significant 'Worldly' FB posts or comments were made by me in February or March 2022. Also note that my Facebook activity in January 2022 was very limited. ==========================================  Great live rendition of a Hindi film oldie goldie: Chhup Gaye Saare Nazare - छुप गए सारे नजारें from Do Raaste (1969) by Javed Ali & Vaishali Madhe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtqXtd0VHjE , 4 min. 28 secs., published on 30th Aug. 2015.