Veteran journalist Karan Thapar’s book launch at Delhi’s Taj Mahal Hotel on 25 July, Wednesday, saw in attendance Congress President Rahul Gandhi, former Vice President of India Hamid Ansari, Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Former Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, among others.

Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, speaking as the guest of honour at the event on Wednesday evening, shared an anecdote from his visit to Vietnam. Rahul Gandhi recalled meeting a man whose mother had been killed before his eyes, by a US bomb. The Vietnamese man was only seven years old at the time, and had been left with a massive hole-like scar on his head from a hand-grenade that had been hurled at him.