Vimal Bhagat's revealing account of his life opens as the struggle for India's freedom is being given shape by Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Abdul Ghaffar Khan at his grandfather's house in Abbottabad, now in Pakistan, where he spent much of his charmed boyhood. Interspersed with hilarious anecdotes, Vimal describes the conflicting influences between his nationalistic forbears and the public school ethos of his British teachers, and later, in the world of ...
