India: The Crucial Years

Part I: Border Assignments
1. Transfer to the Intelligence Bureau
2. Sikkim
3. Trek to the Border Check Posts
4. Chinese Ultimatum
5. Assassination of the Prime Minister of Bhutan
6. Adviser to the King
7. Memories of the Himalayan Kingdom

Part II: Security Duty
8. The Naxalite Movement
9. On VIP Duty
10. Accompanying Indira Gandhi
11. The President’s Entourage
12. The Bangladesh War
13. Adviser to Mujibur Rahman

Part III: The Crucial Years
14. The Emergency
15. George Fernandes and C. G. K. Reddy
16. Recollections from the Emergency
17. The IB’s Role

Part IV: Rout and Return
18. The Elections of 1977
19. Departure from the IB
20. Director, Civil Aviation Security
21. Special Commissioner of Andhra Pradesh at Delhi
22. Janata Loses the Plot
23. The Elections of 1979

Part V: Director, Intelligence Bureau
24. Return on IB
25. Organizational Revamp
26. Unionism in the IB
27. The Moshe Dayan Episode
28. Life as DIB
29. Ananda Marga
30. The Non-Aligned Meet
31. Espionage and Counter-Intelligence
32. The Samba Spy Case
33. Contacts with Foreign Intelligence Agencies
34. Committed Bureaucracy
35. The Legacy of DIBs

Part VI: Lieutenant Governor of Arunachal Pradesh
36. Back to the North-East
37. The Thandrong Incident
38. The Assassination of Indira Gandhi
39. The Merchants of Death

Part VII: Governor of Sikkim
40. Sikkim’s Merger into India
41. The Emergence of Nar Bahadur Bhandari
42. Sikkim in 1985
43. President Venkataraman’s Memoir
44. Operations Brasstacks and Chequerboard

Part VIII: Governor of West Bengal
45. West Bengal Politics
46. Interacting with Jyoti Basu
47. Raj Bhavan
48. The Industrial Scene
49. The Question of Corruption
50. The Problem of Bangladeshi Immigrants
51. Resignation of Governors
52. An Revoir, Bengal

Afterword: Governor of Uttar Pradesh