In a distinguished career spanning sixty years veteran journalist political commentator and author Kudip Nayar has seen and reported it all. From his vantage point - at the forefront of every ground-breaking news event in close proximity to the people in power - Kuldip Nayar's articles are all the more interesting as they are first-hand accounts of historic political events informed with personal insights into the motives and machinations that conspired to bring them about.

From personal encounters with Gandhi Jinnah Nehru and interviews with Mountbatten and Radcliffe to the 1965 Indo-Pak war and its aftermath the 1969 Congress split and the liberation of Bangladesh - this book is a compendium of the most important news-stories to break over the last sixty years told by a man with access to the people in power and who in his capacity as information officer also influenced these decisions.