Ninety Days: The True Story of the Hunt for Rajiv Gandhi's Assassins

Written by Anirudhya Mitra

Narrated by Adwait Karambelkar

At 10.20 p.m. on 21 May 1991, a young woman bowed before Rajiv Gandhi at an election rally in Sriperumbudur, 42 km north of Chennai. And then there was an explosion.

This book is the definitive account of one of the most controversial crimes in contemporary India. It unravels the complex plot hatched by the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) to ensure that Rajiv Gandhi did not return to power in the 1991 general elections.

Ninety Days provides a blow-by-blow account of how the Special Investigation Team of the CBI cracked the assassination plot, identified the assassins and chased the mastermind, Sivarasan, to his final hideout. The deaths from cyanide consumption of the members of the hit squad left several unanswered questions in their wake, which this book explores.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins India
• Release date: Jul 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9789394407626

Anirudhya Mitra

Anirudhya Mitra is a journalist and filmmaker. During a successful stint (1982-93) of news reporting in The Times of India and India Today, he broke several stories, including the Bofors scam, Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, drug wars in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, money laundering by the BCCI bank that led to its closure, corruption in the judiciary, the life and times of Indian-model-turned-spy Pamela Bordes, godman Chandraswamy and others. He moved to writing and creating television drama series with UTV in Mumbai in 1994 and also wrote and produced movies in South East Asia. 

Reviews for Ninety Days

[Anirudhya Mitra · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

"The book is a page turner even though it has been published thirty years after the dastardly event." GC Shekhar in THE HINDU.
"The author has come up with a fascinating, gripping and the most comprehensive story of the hunt for those who meticulously planned and executed Rajiv Gandhi's brutal end. Mitra's account reads like an electrifying and enthralling thriller." MR Narayan in THE WIRE