Nani Palkhivala: God’s Gift to India (Biography by a friend) by Dharmendra Bhandari with Hema and Savitri Bhandari. Published in 2016 by the author. The book is distributed by M&J Services, Bansilal Mans, opp Bombay House, 9/15, Homi Modi St, Fort, 400023; e-mail: Lawbooks@gmail.com Pp: 208: Price: Rs 3,000.
Dharmendra Bhandari (pictured) is a banker and former academic from Jaipur. In 1976, as a star-struck 19-year-old, he once jostled his way through the crowds that had thronged the Cricket Club of India in Bombay to hear Nani Palkhivala deliver one of his budget speeches and managed to shake hands with him.......