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Lee Kuan Yew
HarperCollins India
752 pages, Rs. 799
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving Asian metropolis? The story of that transformation is told here by
Singapore’s charismatic, controversial founding
father, Lee Kuan Yew.
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