Penguin to release Soli Sorabjee biography authored by Dr. Abhinav Chandrachud

A biography of India's former Attorney General and eminent jurist Soli Sorabjee will be launched later this month. .Titled 'Soli Sorabjee: Life and Times', the book penned by advocate Dr. Abhinav Chandrachud will be published by Penguin Random House. The book will be the first comprehensive and authorised biography of the Padma Vibhushan awardee. Sorabjee had passed away in April last year after contracting COVID, aged 91.Some of the facets regarding his life and circumstances through his career that the book will touch upon are:How the Parsi lawyer deeply influenced by the principles of Roman Catholicism fell in love with a Bahai and went on to become the Attorney-General for India with a 'Hindu-nationalist' BJP government in power How with a broken leg, studying in a Gujarati-medium school and having lost his father when he was merely 19, later went on to mount a heroic defence in the Supreme Court in 1977 of the Janata government's decision to dissolve Congress State legislatures How a Nehru-admiring newspaper columnist who criticised the BJP for being 'obsessed' with 'demolishing mosques' and had advised them to replace 'Hindutva' with 'Bharatva' or 'Indianness', still got chosen by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to represent the government in the Ram Janmabhoomi case How a lawyer with the otherwise 'humdrum' practice in only customs and excise law practice, with a grandfather who sold horse-drawn carriages in Mumbai, became a UN human-rights Rapporteur, and repeatedly defend the fundamental right to free speech and expression in India's Supreme Court..Sorabjee, who was born in 1930, enrolled at the bar in 1953. He was designated Senior Advocate by the Bombay High Court in 1971.He was in legal profession for nearly seven decades and also served as the Attorney General for India twice - first from 1989-90 and second from 1998 to 2004 during the tenure of the first NDA government headed by Atal Bihari Vjapayee.He was also the Solicitor General of India from 1977-80, the first non-Congress government at the Centre.He appeared in number of landmark cases including Kesavananda Bharati, SR Bommai and Maneka Gandhi.He was honoured with Padma Vibhushan in 2002..The author of the book advocate Dr. Abhinav Chandrachud is an advocate practicing before the Bombay High Court. The son of sitting Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud, he graduated from the LLM programme at the Harvard Law School as a Dana Scholar..Read our coverage on and pieces of tributes to the late Soli Sorabjee here. .Soli Sorabjee greatest Indian lawyer since World War II: Senior Advocate Gopal Subramanium