title: Scoop! : Inside Stories from Partition to the Present
author:  Kuldip Nayar 
description: Kuldip Nayar is a noted Indian journalist who has been in the field for almost sixty years. He is noted for his highly centre-left columns. Kuldip Nayar has been many things in his life reporter, editor, detainee during the Indian Emergency, high commissioner to Great Britain, peacenik, Rajya sabha member but what he does best is explore the byzantine maze of Indian politics to provide amplification and clarity of events, issues and personalities.
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  Ferd’s Fair Favor
  
  
  Tales from Biders Clump
  
  
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  Contents
  
  
  [Prologue](part0000_split_002.html#_Toc523664418)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc523664419)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc523664420)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc523664421)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc523664422)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc523664423)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0000_split_007.html#_Toc523664424)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](part0000_split_008.html#_Toc523664425)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](part0000_split_009.html#_Toc523664426)
  
  
  [Chapter 9](part0000_split_009.html#_Toc523664427)
  
  
  [Chapter 10](part0000_split_010.html#_Toc523664428)
  
  
  [Chapter 11](part0000_split_011.html#_Toc523664429)
  
  
  [Chapter 12](part0000_split_012.html#_Toc523664430)
  
  
  [Chapter 13](part0000_split_013.html#_Toc523664431)
  
  
  [Chapter 14](part0000_split_014.html#_Toc523664432)
  
  
  [Chapter 15](par