Highlights of Pranab Mukherjee’s memoir ‘The Turbulent Years’

In the second volume of his memoir, The Turbulent Years: 1980-96, President Pranab Mukherjee shares an insider's account of several significant events during the 1980's and early 1990's. In this extract, Mukherjee talks about how Rajiv Gandhi wanted to know “how potent” the bullets were after his mother Indira Gandhi was shot by her bodyguards in 1984. He also rejects as “false and spiteful” stories that he aspired to be the Prime Minister after Indira Gandhi's assassination.