Mein Nehru Ka Saaya Tha

"KF Rustamji IP who was chief of the Madhya Pradesh police and later founder Director General of the Border Security Force (BSF) worked as the Chief Security Officer of the Prime Minister Nehru from 1952 to 1958. Rustamji maintained a diary from the time he joined the service in 1938. He felt he was living in stirring times and the maintenance of a diary would help him to be more observant. PV Rajgopal has edited the material collected from 1600 pages of Rustamji’s diaries pertaining to the period he was with Pandit Nehru. Nehru himself said in 1960 “I know Rustamji very well.” And after a pause and an enigmatic smile added “Rustamji also knows me very well.” The day-to-day record maintained by a man whose duty demanded he be close to Nehru depicts the portrait of the subject captured through a close-up lens as it were."