About the Book: Confessions of an Unknown Congressman
Mahesh Manzar did not quite make it as a politician, but did make a name for
himself as a poet and as a Congress Party organiser. Interestingly, a chance
encounter with Sanjay Gandhi in the early 1970s, when he was a student at Delhi
University, led him to join the Congress Party. Blessed with the gift of the gab
and the ability to churn out some witty and thoughtful couplets, he quickly
moved up the ranks of Congress activists till he was walking in and out of the
partys offices and in the Prime Ministers house