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Syed Amin Jafri in Hyderabad
Radiologist Dr Kakarla Subba Rao's controversial autobiography -- A Doctor's Life and Death -- is not being released, at least not for now.
Dr Subba Rao has asked the book's publishers-- Ocean Books-- not to release it in the market for the time being.
While Dr Subba Rao avoided the media on Tuesday, sources close to him confirmed that the autobiography, against which former Telugu Desam chief and matinee idol N T Rama Rao's widow Lakshmi Parvathi has gone to court, would be kept "off the shelves."
However, Lakshmi Parvathi told rediff.com on Tuesday afternoon that she would not withdraw the defamation case against Dr Subba Rao. "I will pursue the case to its logical end. I want to get back my honour, which I have lost due to the scurrilous, derogatory and defamatory references to me in Kakarla Subba Rao's book."
The book has two pages --122 and 123 -- devoted entirely to NTR and Lakshmi Parvathi. Besides other references to Parvathi, the author has alluded to stories that the septuagenarian NTR was taking steroids to improve his virility to father a son through her.
In pre-publication interviews, Dr Subba Rao had circulated excerpts of the book to the media.
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