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Life Among The Scorpions: Memoirs of a Woman in Indian Politics

 
Jaya Jaitly (Author)
Synopsis

An Indian politician looks back at her journey and recounts how the going got tougher with her every success, perhaps because she was a woman.

Life among the Scorpions recounts the deeply fascinating and often tumultuous events that mark thirty years of Jaya Jaitly’s political journey.

From arranging relief for victims of the 1984 Sikh riots, to joining politics under firebrand leader George Fernandes, to becoming the president of Samata Party—a key ally in the erstwhile NDA Government, Jaitly’s rise in Indian mainstream politics invited both awe and envy. But the going has been far from smooth. Trouble began with George Fernandes sacking Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat in 1998. Jaitly became the target. She was soon hounded by Tehelka’s stings-first concerning her son-in-law-to-be Ajay Jadeja and then herself in an alleged bribery case.

Eventually, Fernandes had to resign as India’s Defence Minister, despite being the best and Jaitly quit as the Samata Party President. Meanwhile, she spiritedly fought booth capturing in Bihar as well as fellow party men’s egos, intervened and ensured the installation of the Samata government in Manipur. All this, even as she continued her parallel fight for the livelihood of craftsmen on the one hand, and conceptualized and ensured establishment of the first Dilli Haat (crafts market place) in 1994 on the other.

With all the backstories of major events in Indian politics between 1970–2000, including her experience of dealing with the Commission of Inquiry and courts regarding the Tehelka stings, the story of Jaya Jaitly makes for a riveting read. A powerful narrative on why being a woman in politics was for her akin to being surrounded by scorpions; this hard hitting memoir offers a perspective on the functioning of Indian politics from a woman’s point of view.

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About the author

Jaya Jaitly

Jaya Jaitly is a social and political activist and a prolific writer on crafts. She is the founder and president of the Dastkari Haat Samiti, and has worked with India craftspeople for more than three decades in the design and marketing of crafts and handmade textiles. She has initiated many innovative programmes to promote awareness and respect for craftspersons and help them towards self-reliance and dignity. Her publications on crafts include The Crafts of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh (1990), The Craft Traditions of India (1991) and Visvakarmas Children (2001). Bhramara Nayak is an accomplished painter in the traditional patachitra style of Orissa. He received the Orissa State Award in 1985, and the National Award for Master Craftsperson in 1984. He is the chairman of Orupa, an NGO producing and marketing crafts. He teaches patachitra painting at the Jawahar Nabodaya Vidyalaya in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa.

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Bibliographic information

Title Life Among The Scorpions: Memoirs of a Woman in Indian Politics
Author Jaya Jaitly
Format Hardcover
Date published: 19.12.2017
Edition 1st. ed.
Language: English
isbn 9788129149091
length 352p.
Subjects Biography