B Raman's 'The Kaoboys of R&AW' - Down the Sycophantic Lane!!!
B Raman's 'The Kaoboys of R&AW' was on my long list of to-be-reads for sometime. The hype over the book and the author himself did have their influence on me. Finally, ended up reading the Kindle version. If I can summarize Raman's book, I say its a 'too clever by half' attempt! Why do I say that? And its not to suggest that Raman's book is thrash or not to be read at all. It has its importance, there are facts revealed which were unknown hitherto and new perspectives on our polity, intelligence apparatus and incidents. It is the unbridled sanctimonious importance that he grants himself and constant attempts to blame everyone else is one of my pain points. The other agony I had to experience throughout the work is his fawning obsequiousness of the Gandhi Family. He almost grants the entire bouquets of goods that happened to India and the Intelligence community to Indira and Rajiv Gandhi and the anything bad to everyone else! I mean if this was h