Although ostensibly about the Raj, the freedom struggle and Partition, what it dwells on is the Nehru-Edwina love story
There are no fewer than 30 entries on the affair, but let me take two examples. First, according to S.S. Pirzada, Pakistan’s foreign minister in the late ’60s, Jinnah had been handed a "small collection" of intimate letters from Edwina to Nehru, one of which said, "Dickie will be out tonight, come after 10 o’clock". Other notes were equally compromising. However, in the end "Jinnah concluded that ‘Caesar’s wife should be above suspicion’, and had the letters returned". Secondly, she reproduces from M.O. Mathai’s My Years with Nehru, which Khushwant Singh famously described as the "Diary of a Namak Haram". Published when Indira Gandhi was safely out of power, Mathai writes of an "incident" when Nehru’s "old girlfriend" Padmaja Naidu allegedly locked herself up in her room for the whole day because Nehru arrived with Edwina.