瓦杰帕伊是印度人民银行最早的成员之一，到20世纪60年代末，他成长为一名主要的反对党议员，并在短暂的印度人民银行政府中担任外交部长，最后在1999年领导第一个完成完整任期的非国会政府。这是一个联合政府，这让这一壮举更加引人注目，并证明了一个事实，即尽管瓦杰帕伊信奉右翼政治意识形态，但他不相信排斥政治。
瓦杰帕伊是贾纳·桑格（Jana Sangh）的忠实拥护者，如西亚玛·普拉萨德·穆克吉（Syama Prasad Mukherjee）和迪恩·达亚尔·乌帕迪亚亚（Deen Dayal Upadhyaya），他赢得了贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁（Jawaharlal Nehru）的钦佩，他的女儿英迪拉·甘地（Indira Gandhi）曾向他征求意见，他从来没有缺乏批评的勇气，甚至在他们成为政治盟友之前，他就得到了狂热的工会主义者。因此，他表现出了一种不同寻常的能力，能够贯彻各种不同的政治观点——这一能力在1999年至2004年间领导全国民主联盟政府时脱颖而出。在这种公众形象的背后，是一种不寻常的个人生活，这种生活的尊严使其不受影射。
在这本书中，记者金淑娜（Kingshuk Nag）追溯了这位40多年来身材高大的议员的政治历程，他于2014年12月被授予巴拉特·拉特纳（Bharat Ratna）。阿塔尔·比哈里·瓦杰帕伊：《四季男人》是对印度最杰出的非国会领袖之一的生活和时代的权威性描述。
Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Man for All Seasons (Audiobook)
From being one of the earliest members of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, Vajpayee blossomed into a leading opposition MP by the late 1960s and went on to become External Affairs Minister in the short-lived Janata government and, finally in 1999, to head the first non-Congress government to complete a full term in office. That it was a coalition government made the feat all the more remarkable and testifies to the fact that though wedded to a right-wing political ideology, Vajpayee did not believe in the politics of exclusion.
A protégé of Jana Sangh stalwarts like Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Vajpayee won the admiration of Jawaharlal Nehru, was consulted by his daughter Indira Gandhi – whom he never lacked the courage to criticize – and was befriended by fiery trade unionist George Fernandes even before they became political allies. He thus displayed an unusual ability to carry along all shades of political opinion – an ability that came to the fore when he headed the National Democratic Alliance government between 1999 and 2004. And behind this public persona was an unusual personal life, conducted with such dignity as to remain free of innuendo.
In this book journalist Kingshuk Nag traces the political journey of this tall parliamentarian of over four decades, who was conferred the Bharat Ratna in December 2014. Atal Bihari Vajpayee: A Man for All Seasons is a definitive account of the life and times of one of India’s most illustrious non-Congress leaders.
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