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As in failures are the embers of character thus scripted.”Virat Kohli’s Driven, the Virat Kohli Story, author, senior journalist Vijay Lokapally agrees, “We have a long way to go in candidness. So long as important milestones are represented, and there is no malice, the writer has the absolute right to take that call. It’s not necessary to do the full monty. We show a different face to different people.. We do not want to antagonise, we listen and reveal, sitting on a couch, which is sitting on a fence, we rubber bottom door mats manufacturer are all thriving on the fence. Inspire.As to the whys? Padma Shri and Arjuna awardee Anjum Chopra adds, “We are scared, what holds anybody, any of the top guys with the highest coveted awards, back from sharing a part of themselves? Being diplomatic is good, but being diplomatic without reason, what’s the point? I should be able to voice my opinion. It makes Agassi understandable.While India is still in the nascent stages when it comes to candid memoirs, Thomas Abraham, managing director Hachette India explains, “We have 100 years of English publishing, but the quantum of biography and memoirs is fairly scant.The onus lies with the narrator, to edit his life as he sees fit.Q..”The essence of a lifeLokapally speaks of Virat’s intensity, “I have traced his career, woven a story on his childhood till the World Cup.Those imperfections, foibles, eccentricities. Not having access to Ronaldo, as I knew him, had been with him, and already researched for a year before he got upset with me, I had enough information. Khushwant Singh also made a U-turn after eulogising Indira Gandhi all his life, in his later years..Fear of censure makes many edit lives. The worst, the best, they are ‘us’. All my books have a different style, structure, I surprise myself, with the way a ‘literary’ way emerges, that I tend to scripture the books. What was the trigger?”Whose truth is it?So is ‘his’tory a matter of perspective? “A frank memoir is always a brave decision.