The Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi

Journalist Neena Gopal was interviewing Rajiv Gandhi in the car en route to the rally and was only yards behind him when the suicide bomber Dhanu blew herself up killing him and many innocent bystanders. Drawing on extensive interviews research and her own vast experience as a journalist Gopal tracks the assassination plot hatched by LTTE supremo Prabhakaran in Sri Lanka and takes us step by step to Sriperumbudur to that tragic May evening as Rajiv Gandhi walked inexorably to his death. About the Author A journalist for thirty-eight years Neena Gopal began her career in a Bangalore that was the hotbed of post-Emergency politics. Moving to the UAE in the 1980s she worked for the Dubai-based Gulf News where as foreign editor she travelled in the Middle East during and after the first Gulf War in 1990 and Operation Desert Storm covering war-torn Iraq and its neighbours through the Second Gulf War in 2003. Gopal's other news-hunting ground has been India and its immediate neighbourhood both as a foreign affairs journalist and as a close observer of the life and times of many leaders in India Pakistan Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. She currently edits the Bangalore edition of Deccan Chronicle.