A Prisoner's Scrap-Book is a fascinating account of the unfolding of events of the Emergency (1975-77) as seen from a prison house. Written in a simple and straightforward style embellished with anecdotes, this is not just one more prison diary. Nor does it attempt to theorize. In words that speak from the heart, the authorthen the president of a major Indian political party and how the country's. Home Ministerhas recorded his thoughts and the events that took place on a day-to-day basis during his nineteen-month sojourn in the country's jails. In his foreword to the book, former Prime Minister Shri Morarji Desai writes, "...The diary reveals a person of singular honesty and dedication, culture and equanimity. It depicts the burning faith with which he withstood the consequences of governmental trickery and his passion, as an editor for the freedom of the Press and the mass-media...."