Soli Sorabji Biography
Life And Times: An Authorized Biography
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Soli Sorabji Biography
Narrated by:
Vivek Bhatia
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Narrated by:
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Vivek Bhatia
Summary
‘A gripping life story of a Goliath who strode the Indian legal canvass for nearly seventy years.’ – Mukul Rohatgi, former Attorney General of India
‘Superbly researched, this book by Abhinav Chandrachud is a must read. ‘ – Madhavi Goradia Divan, Additional Solicitor General in the Supreme Court of India
How does a Parsi lawyer, deeply influenced by the principles of Roman Catholicism, fall in love with a Bahá’í and go on to become the Attorney General of India for a Hindu nationalist BJP government? How does a boy with a broken leg, who studied in a Gujarati-medium school, and lost his father at the age of nineteen, go on to mount a heroic defense of the Janata government’s decision to dissolve Congress state legislatures (in 1977) in the Supreme Court? How does a newspaper columnist who admires Nehru, who criticizes the BJP for being ‘obsessed’ with ‘demolishing mosques’ and advises them to replace ‘Hindutva’ with ‘Bharatva’ or ‘Indianness’, get chosen by Prime Minister Vajpayee to represent the government in the Supreme Court in many cases, including the Ayodhya case? How does a lawyer with a humdrum customs and excise law practice, whose grandfather sold horsedrawn carriages in Bombay, become a U.N. human rights rapporteur, and repeatedly defend the fundamental right to free speech and expression in the Supreme Court of India?
Definitive, comprehensive and absolutely unputdownable, this first biography of Soli Sorabjee opens a window into the life and times of one of India’s foremost constitutional experts.
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The storytelling is flat and oddly disengaged, offering little sense of why Sorabjee mattered so deeply to Indian constitutional law or how formidable he was as a lawyer and public intellectual. For a figure of this magnitude, the narrative feels curiously small and inert.
The audiobook experience further detracted from the book. The narration was ineffective and monotonous, adding nothing to the material and, at times, actively draining it of whatever energy it had. I will be actively avoiding this narrator in future.
Overall, a disappointing account of a legal giant who deserved a far more vivid, insightful, and compelling biography.
A Disappointingly Flat Portrait of a Legal Giant
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