For twentythree years a myth has been perpetuated that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by the LTTE because it feared his triumphant return to power at the conclusion of the 1991 general electrons, underway, when Rajiv, out of power was assassinated on 21 May 1991. But if this basic premise is knocked off and the alternate scenario is shown that the Congress which returned to power in 1991 even after Rajiv's assassination considerably short of a simple majority, had no chance of returning to power, had Rajiv not been sacrificed thus, then the entire bottom of this myth is knocked off and the whole theory falls flat on its nose. This is the premise on which everyone starting from CBISIT to the Supreme Court and numerous analysts and theorists have built their castles of conspiracy. This book is also about conspiracies and intrigue, but it has attempted to explode this myth and seeks to find why Rajiv was killed if he was not likely to return to power in the 1991 midterm elections?

Prologue --
1. Congress workers' suspicion --
2. Raison d'etre: mandal-Mandir rage --
3. Justice Verma Commission Report: hints of an inside job --
4. Conspiracy of silence --
5. What made Rajiv walk to his near certain death? --
6. Mystery behind Sivarasan's decision to stay on after assassination --
7. Why Chandraswamy's role continues to be a subject of MDMA probe? --
8. Why do Sonia and family still betray a certain hostility against Narasimha Rao? --
9. The contours of the coverup --
10. Has Kaarthikeyan admitted to a flawed probe? --
11. Subramanian Swamy's defence exposes more chinks in the CBI-SIT armour --
12. Written in the stars? 13. Mohandas' allegorical fictioon or the expose? --
Epilogue.