TY  - GEN
AU  - Shourie, Arun
TI  - Commissioner for lost causes
SN  - 9780670096404
U1  - 324.2092 
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Gurugram
PB  - Penguin Viking
KW  - Political science
KW  - Shourie, Arun (1941-)
KW  - Biography
KW  - Politics and governments
N1  - Includes index and references
N2  - The work done by Arun Shourie and his colleagues rocked institutions and governments: the freeing of 40,000 undertrials; revealing the Bhagalpur blindings; purchasing Kamla; dislodging a ‘Sultan’; foiling ‘strikes’; controverting Judges; battling privilege motions; courting contempt of court charges; nailing corruption, forgeries, lies, and the opportunism of rulers; uncovering suppressed reports… What lay behind these and the consequences that followed?

A comprehensive account of dramatic incidents like getting governments to swallow legislation against the press, unseating of chief ministers, a prime minister unspooling himself even as manoeuvres to unseat him are scotched, a deputy prime minister trying to dislodge colleagues with fabricated documents, people’s movements ending up as rivulets in the sand, The Commissioner for Lost Causes discusses Shourie’s innings, the calumny hurled at him, his dismissal, and his being recalled and removed again.

https://penguin.co.in/book/the-commissioner-for-lost-causes
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