Before Memory Fades An Autobiography Fali S Nariman by Fali S. Nariman 9788189988227, 8189988220 instant download after payment.

Born on the tenth day of 1929, at the General Hospital in faraway Rangoon, to a Zoroastrian, or (Parsis) family as they are called, Fali Sam Nariman, ‘Baba’ to his parents, had to leave for India and take refuge when the Japanese bombed Rangoon in December 1941, during the Second World War. Little did they know that their son would rise to become one of India’s greatest lawyers’.
This autobiography gives a detailed insight of the National Emergency in 1975, when he was the Additional Solicitor General of India. Fali recalls of those days like 12th June 1975 when Justice Jagmohan Lal Sinha of the Allahabad High Court pronounced the judgment in the election petition filed against Indira Gandhi by Raj Narain where she was held guilty of corrupt practice and thus was disqualified from holding any public office. On 22nd June 1975 an appeal for stay to the Allahabad High Court judgment was filed before the vacation bench before Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer. Nani Palkhiwala argued and got the judgment reserved, but on 24th June 1975 a conditional stay order was granted. Fali S. Nariman recounts his own defiance against autocratic rule when he resigned from the post of Additional Solicitor General of India in opposition to the declaration of Internal Emergency in 1975 by the Indira Gandhi government, being the only public officer in the country to have registered his protest against the suppression of civil liberties.Before Memory Fades is not just a book but a classic piece of art if I may call. It is a commentary on the most important court cases like Shankari Prasad (1951), Sajjan Singh (1965), Golaknath (1967), Keshavananda Bharti (1973), and Minerva Mills (1980) which laid the fundamental basis of the Indian Constitution.