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R.N. Kao Gentleman Spymaster
''R.N. Kao: Gentleman Spymaster'' is a biography of R. N. Kao, Rameshwar Nath Kao, the founding chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW). Written by Nitin A. Gokhale, the book was published by Bloomsbury India in November 2019. The book is being adapted into a movie by Karan Johar. Background Nitin A. Gokhale was informally approached to write a book on Kao. Through interviews with people who worked with Kao or were trained by him, Kao's declassified recordings and other official documents, meetings with his family, Gokhale managed to complete the book in 65 days. The National Security Advisor (India), National Security Advisor of India, Ajit Doval, has written the foreword of the book. The book is only one of two books and the first-full-fledged book to be written about RN Kao. Through the life of RN Kao, the book is a view into how the people and organisations that protect India's national interests were built. Contents Gokhale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajit Doval
Ajit Kumar Doval, Kirti Chakra, KC (born 20 January 1945) is an Indian bureaucrat and spymaster, who is currently serving as the National Security Advisor of India since 2014. A retired Indian Police Service officer of the Kerala cadre, he had previously served as Director of the Intelligence Bureau, Director of the Intelligence Bureau (India), Intelligence Bureau in 2004–05, after heading its operations wing for a decade. He founded the Vivekananda International Foundation in 2009, which he headed until his appointment as NSA. Ajit Doval is currently enjoying third five-year extension of his tenure as National Security Advisor of India, making Doval longest serving NSA of India. Early life and education Doval was born in 1945 in Ghiri Banelsyun village in Pauri Garhwal district, Pauri Garhwal in the erstwhile United Provinces (1937-1950), United Provinces, now in Uttarakhand. Doval's father, Major (India), Major G. N. Doval, was an officer in the Indian Army. He received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), also known by the honorific Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman and activist who was the founding president of Bangladesh. As the leader of Bangladesh, he led the country as its President of Bangladesh, president and Prime Minister of Bangladesh, prime minister from 1972 until his Assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, assassination in a 15 August 1975 Bangladesh coup d'état, ''coup d'état'' in 1975. His nationalist ideology, socio-political theories, and political doctrines are collectively known as Mujibism. Born in an aristocratic Bengali Muslim family in Tungipara, Mujib emerged as a student activist in the Bengal Presidency, province of Bengal during the final years of the British Raj. He was a member of the All India Muslim League, All-India Muslim League, supported Muslim nationalism in South Asia, Muslim nationalism, and advocated for the Pakistan Movement, establishment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Books About The Research And Analysis Wing
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mostly of writing and images. Modern books are typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover, what is known as the ''codex'' format; older formats include the scroll and the tablet. As a conceptual object, a ''book'' often refers to a written work of substantial length by one or more authors, which may also be distributed digitally as an electronic book (ebook). These kinds of works can be broadly classified into fiction (containing invented content, often narratives) and non-fiction (containing content intended as factual truth). But a physical book may not contain a written work: for example, it may contain ''only'' drawings, engravings, photographs, sheet music, puzzles, or removable content like paper dolls. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
