This is the 2nd book translated by me from Marathi to English again written by Mr. Sunjay Awate. An English copy of this book was gifted to Mr. Obama during his recent presidential visit to India. Unfortunately, Mr. Awate has so far printed only one copy of the English book because our primary objective was to arrange for gifting it to Mr. Obama and the entire 1st English edition will be launched by us when the next US Presidential elections will be declared which will be the right time to launh our English book. Before me commencing this translation, this book has already been translated in various other Indian languages such as Gujarati, Konkani, Kannada and Telugu.
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NIYATISHI KARAAR Alis TRYST WITH DESTINY
As I mentioned during our telephonic talk, 'NIYATISHI KARAAR - NAVYAA JAGACHE NAVE AKALAN' is the name of the Marathi book written by prominent journalist Mr. Sunjay Awate, about the famous Indo-USA Nuclear Deal. He was working as the assistant editor of Loksatta when he wrote this book and now he is the Chief Editor of Lokmat Internet Edition and Group News Desk Editor of Lokmat Group. I happened to translate it from Marathi to English and the same was published under an English title as 'TRYST WITH DESTINY - NEW PERCEPTION OF THE NEW WORLD'. These JPG files will display to you the front and back pages of both the Marathi and English books. Again, Mrs. Supriya Sule (Daughter of Hon. Mr. Sharad Pawar), Hon. Mr. Prithviraj Chavan - the current Chief Minister of Maharashtra and the then Union Minister of State for PMO, and finally Mr. Rahul Gandhi have read the English version of this book. Myself and Mr. Awate became close friends ever since Rahul Gandhi sent a handwritten letter for congratulating Mr. Awate after reading this book
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Mr. Kumar Ketkar, the current Chief Editor of Marathi newspaper Loksatta, has written this book with the same title about India's ex-Prime Minister Late Mrs. Indira Gandhi. It was first published in 1977 and became a instant hit because Mr. Ketkar has ferociously defended the politics of Mrs. Indira Gandhi. In fact, ever since the publication of this book, Mr. Ketkar prominently came to be identified as 'Indira-Premi' in the literary world. This book became instantly famous also because it was in 1977 itself Mrs. Indira Gandhi had restored democracy in India after imposing emergency for over 2 years from 1975 onward. It was in the parliamentary elections of 1977 itself, Mrs. Gandhi had faced a major defeat and the Congress party was virtually routed in the elections. The Janata Party had won the elections with a landslide victory. I hold the credit of translating this book from Marathi to Hindi way back in 1989. Without any prior experience of doing any translations whatsoever, for a 22 years old boy like me then, making a successful attempt of translating a complex book such as this one with all its vigourous language written by an accomplished author like Mr. Kumar Ketkar, in a relatively soft language like Hindi was like a first year MBBS student successfully attempting a bypass surgery and then being appreciated by a prominent man like Late Dr. Neetu Mandke. This JPG file is a hand-written certificate issued to me by Mr. Kumar Ketkar for the awesome effort undertaken by me without any formal knowledge of the Hindi language during those days.
