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People constitute autobiographies for antithetic reasons and motivations—from confession to self-discovery—and the 1 written by elder lawyer and erstwhile Attorney General of India K.K. Venugopal is an effort to “come to presumption with himself”, N. Ram, Director of The Hindu Group, said connected Tuesday (March 10, 2026).
Speaking astatine a treatment connected Mr. Venugopal’s publication An Accidental Lawyer—My Adventures successful Law and Life, Mr. Ram said the memoir sought to find the writer himself, and that is what is appealing astir it and makes it precise readable.
“I deliberation radical travel to the genre called autobiography for antithetic reasons and motivations. For example, the confessional mode starting with Russo… Gandhiji, of course, with ‘My Experiments with Truth’. There are others who effort to find themselves similar Jawaharlal Nehru successful ‘Discovery of India’.”
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“In penning specified a book, you effort to find yourself—to spot what benignant of idiosyncratic you are. That is an absorbing exercise,” Mr. Ram said, adding determination are others who privation to speech astir themselves and their greatness.
He said Mr. Venugopal’s publication is, successful a sense, an effort to travel to presumption with himself and not conscionable arsenic a lawyer.
Mr. Ram said that the erstwhile Attorney General talks astir himself successful the publication arsenic to however helium was an “accidental lawyer”, recounting however helium was not a bully pupil and the effectual enactment helium got. The memoir touches connected things similar his household and his wanderlust.
“At the aforesaid time, (the memoir talks about) important cases, similar the daze of being successful Delhi successful 1984 during the anti-Sikh genocidal violence. Later on, the violent, barbaric enactment of Babri masjid demolition, erstwhile helium says I bent my caput successful shame…rebuild it, and helium was told no, you cannot bash that by the past Attorney General, are different absorbing cases,” Mr Ram said.
Former MP Subhashini Ali, who besides participated successful the discussion, said that portion Mr. Venugopal talks astir issues similar the anti-Sikh riots and the Babri Masjid demolition, helium has kept quiescent astir galore issues facing the country, particularly truthful erstwhile helium was the Attorney General of India from July 2017 till September 2022. “There is simply a soundlessness which is incomprehensible to me,” she said.
Senior lawyer Raian Karanjawala said Mr. Venugopal has galore facets, overmuch endowment and galore sides to his quality and each of them is reflected successful the memoir.
