Dehradun, March 23 -- Book Review

15 March, 3 p.m.

I write this book review with a sense of deep personal regret. Smita Shah- the author, presented me a copy of her book 'Leaves From A Bureaucat's Diary: Memoirs of an IAS wife' on the occasion of the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture at Teen Murti (Prime Minister's Memorial and Library) on 12 February, and I promised her (as well as her publisher Sanjay Arya) that I would review the book in my weekly column, and place a copy at the LBSNAA, IIC and VoW libraries. As I normally like to read three to four books at any point of time and also devote two to three days on the background work for my fortnightly column 'state of the state', I could not complete this beautifully penned and elegantly ...