When Dr.Rajkumar was released after over 100 days of captivity by Veerappan, everybody was curious to know what exactly went behind the scenes in getting the matinee idol back to his normal life. Unofficially, everyone knew that a huge ransom was paid to get Dr.Raj out of the jungle, but there was an offcial detial of any ransom paid. For all those who were waiting to know what went behind the scenes of Rajkumar hostage crisis, the book "RAAJA RAHASYA" gives you all the info in a plain , straight-on-the-face way. Its written in English(Veerappan's PRIZED CATCH: RAJKUMAR) by Dinakar and translated to kannada by Ravi BeLegere
The book is written by CP Dinakar who was the Commissioner of Police for bangalore when the crisis happened. Who else can give you more authentic information about the proceeedings ??? This is the only book which Dinakar has written and it shows all over the book that he is not a good writer. But, when you wanna know just the facts, that too spicy controversial facts, you wont be too concerned about the writing skills of the author.
Dinakar has put the facts in black and white. He takes names directly and spares no-one irrespective of who it is.It is interesting to know who said what and did what behind the scenes and how the events followed based on decisions taken by so many people involved. Over the process, Dinakar goes personal and starts giving his opinion about the incidents and the people he comes accross. He ofcourse, depicts himself as good guy everywhere and over a period of time you start getting bored about his personal opinions and individual experiences unrelated to the incident ,as you are more keen on the facts of the hostage crisis. Many incidents end up like, "I told them to do it this way, they dint do it and thats why things went wrong" :) :) :) ...As an ameteur, Dinakar doesnt know to control his personal emotions while putting down the facts on paper for the public. I hope he takes care of that next time, if at all he writes another book. Also, there is no proper flow in the book. Sometimes, even the minutest details of an incident are given while sometimes the story moves ahead by 20 days without even a mention. But still, Thanks to Dinakar, one gets to know how a state is brought down to its knees and humiliated by a bandit when he has a perfect catch as a hostage
With so much of details given in the book, both government, Rajkumar family and hardcore Rakumar fans were obviously not happy with the distribution of controversial information which were so far hidden among very few high level people involved in the hostage crisis. In a way, it also dents the image of Rajkumar where in some of the fans and general public will not be happy with what all was done to release him and what all Dr.Rajkumar said / requested / did during the hostage crisis. As the government did not endorse the details given in the book, it cannot be termed completely authentic also. Dinakar could have cooked up information inbetween base don his personal thinking. It's upto the reader to make a decision. Putting it in short - - after reading the book I felt that even though Dr.Raj is a God-like figure to millions of people, when crisis came to him personally and in a big way, God became a normal human being just like me and you, wanting to breathe freedom at the cost of hundreds of policemen who died trying to catch Veerappan.
As expected, this book was banned by Government , burnt by hard core fans and is no longer available in stores :) :). Lucky ones got hot of it before it was banned and i happened to know one of those lucky people!!!
--Raghu
*** The above opinion is strictly personal, based on the facts given in the book *** :) :) :)
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