Summary:
History needs to be reassessed and there is a need for a Patelian perspective to history, said Hindol Sengupta, author of 'The Man Who Saved India – Sardar Patel and his idea of India'. Irani read out a paragraph from the book: "Sardar Patel was five feet five inches. Subhas Chandra Bose was five feet five inches tall and Jawaharlal Nehru five feet eight inches. Little did the teacher realize that one day, her student would write a book on the tallest leader India ever had – Sardar Patel." In his book, the author recalls history textbooks and instances about Patel..