This, the first complete biography of Dr. Shanker Dayal Sharma brings to the reader an authenticated, well-researched account of a unique career which has taken Dr. Sharma from a humble lane of old Bhopal to Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, the abode of India’s First Citizen. It portrays a great personality of unsurpassed scholastic achievements, selfless public service, deep commitment to religion as well as the secular values enshrined in the Constitution. The book highlights the subject’s integrity in public life. Events of historical significance spanned by Dr. Sharma’s life have been delineated in a truthful and dispassionate manner.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.C. Bhatt
Veteran and journalist, S.C. Bhatt has been whatching and writing about the problems which often appear as intractable but are finally resolved. He has headed a number of media organisation in the course of his career, from the News Services Divisionof AIR to the DAVP, and from the Publicatiosn Divison to the Rand R Division. He has written extensively on current problems and issue of several books like, The Great Divide:-Muslim Separatism and Partition; The Triangle: India-Nepal-China; Satellite Invasion of India, Broadcast Journalism: Basic Principles; Indian Press Since 1955, Scholar Statesman: Shanker Dayal Sharma- A Biography among others. He has also edited The Encyclopaedic District Gazetteers of India, a volumious work of its own kind.
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