Memoirs of a Geisha or an External Affairs Minister?

The Former External Affairs Minister of India Jaswant Singh's life memoirs are making more of an impact in India than the "Memoirs of a Geisha". Titled "A Call to Honour" the book is slated for release on 27^th July 2006.


The senior BJP man has grabbed headlines by stating there was a mole in the Narasimha Rao Regime (Former Prime Minister of India - 1991 to 1995) who leaked India's Nuclear secrets to USA.

Here is the twist. He says wait for my book, till then I will tell Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself, who the mole is - this is after the Prime Minister challenged Jaswant Singh publicly to stop make baseless statements and to give proof of a mole. Manmohan Singh was very much a part and parcel of the Narasimha Rao Regime.

Truly, the BJP is now caught on a back foot because Jaswant Singh served as External Minister from December 5, 1998 until July 1, 2002 and then as Finance Minister from July 2002 to May 2004 in the Vajpayee Government. The BJP – Vajpayee Government is credited with India’s Pokhran Nuclear tests in 1995. The United States were taken completely by surprise by those tests and the subsequent tests by Pakistan, thus the statement nuclear secrets were leaked a couple of years prior to the nuclear tests needs to be validated.

But serious questions need to be asked to Jaswant Singh. After the Narasimha Rao Regime, Jaswant Singh was the External Affairs minister. Why did he not take any action when he knew there was a mole? India's Nuclear capabilities are not a thing of the past and it is very much a part of India's arsenal. If it is a cheap gimmick to sell his book then he should be charged for maligning public trust or else prosecute him for abetting a mole by keeping silent for now 15 years only to reveal in a book. It is equivalent to compromising India’s National Security.

Jaswant Singh might be simply a politician who wants to write an action flick in his old age. He should rename his book “Thoughts of Jaswant Mata Hari” by Jaswant Singh – total fiction. That might sell more books and be turned into a movie and get him more fame and money than projecting it as his memoirs. His book continuous to bring him more attack than he ever experienced as an officer in his younger days in the Indian Army.

Watch out more for more from the newest sensation on the literary fiction front than a cherished political reference book.