Commiserating with Rao recently was former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar who was disgusted with the pandemonium in Parliament over the Jain Commission report. You have been in government for decades and you have been Prime Minister for five years. You know the truth. Shekhar also said that he had offered to be prosecuted by the government on the adverse remarks about him in the Jain Commission report. And Shekhar fell silent at this description of the mob mentality in Parliament.
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Davidar, who is also a popular literary columnist, devours books and manuscripts. At a time when most book editors judged books by their weight, Davidar brought in a professional touch by assessing both the literary and the commercial worth of the material he received. Davidar was the one who discovered that Shobha De could be a bestseller. He also got the works of Satyajit Ray translated from Bengali to English and published them. O.V. Vijayan, Ruskin Bond, A.K. Ramanujan and the new Reserve Bank Governor Bimal Jalan.