One midnight in the autumn of 1994, Surjit Singh Barnala, former Union Agriculture Minister, Chief Minister of Punjab and a prime terrorist target, slipped his high security cordon and vanished from sight. There were many reasons for his leaving thus, but the chief one was that he simply wanted to be in touch with real people again. This book tells of his journey across the country and in doing so tells of him, his life and its journey, from his childhood and ...