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The Scam That Shook a Nation: The Nagarwala Scandal

by Prakash Patra, Rasheed Kidwai

HarperCollins India
Pages: xi + 263; Price: Rs 399

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It is a story that has been told, literally, a million times. But when Prakash Patra and Rahseed Kidwai, two extremely capable journalists, recap the story with their penchant for thorough research, it becomes a book you just cannot put down.

The sensational incident which the book recaps took place in May 1971, thanks to a thoroughly unscrupulous conman, Rustom Sohrab Nagarwala, and a foolish and na