First Lady President is Inder Dan Ratnu's latest but not quite recent book.

It was conceived back in the year 2000 on the day when Mr George W Bush was declared 'elected' as the president of USA .

It was written from in May 2003 , edited until September 2003 and its first edition was published by Terraplane Publications ,South Carolina,USA in May 2004. It’s second (revised)edition was self published by the author in India in March ,2007 and then its third edition (the same as the second) was published by Iuiverse,USA in first quarter of 2008.

First Lady President was written in the past tense, but in fact it was a vision into the future. A fictional take on a full US presidential election campaign of a woman candidate and her eventual victory in the election by a record margin clinched through picking an african American man as her running mate .It followed by a record gathering of over a million people at their inauguration at the capitol hill in the day followed in turn by an interesting and an unusual celebration in the night .

First Lady President is ,in fact ,an intellectual gift of India to the American people in the form of a book. It has been deliberately devised by its author, a common man of India, to lift up through liberty, and thus promote the cause of women and african american folks both competing for the most powerful post of the world -- the presidency of the United States of America. It is though an "imaginary" story, yet can well serve to boost up the morale of those who in the USA want to and are working for promoting the cause and for heightening the prospects of these two largely ignored (in respect to the presidency) but unignorable, powerful sections of American society. And it did serve to do so in the 2008 presidential election.

Authored by an Indian -- Inder Dan Ratnu from Rajasthan state -- and edited by an American --Michael Burchett of South Carolina state -- First Lady President is a supreme example of Indo-American intellectual collaboration in the internet age between two individual common citizens of the two greatest democracies located on the opposite sides of the globe to each other. This might well emerge as interesting a work among the political fictions of the world as is the emergence of the personality of Hillary Clinton among the political celebrities of the USA -- absolutely unique and unparallelled.Thus two common citizens of two greatest democracies -- representing both the East and the West in this cyber age -- have successfully collaborated for the promotion of the cause OF FREEDOM, FOR FREEDOM and BY FREEDOM -- to churn out a work named First Lady President.
The book First Lady President was originally published in 2003 by Terraplane Publications of Greenville, South Carolina, and subsequently in 2007 by it's author, Inder Dan Ratnu, and in 2008 by Iuniverse, USA. Although it might sound incredulous, yet it is true . This book has actually influenced a US presidential election. But how?

The author sent a complimenatary copy of this book to the Senate office of Barack Obama on 25 April 2007, at the very beginning of his campaign, as there was a character in the book named Charak Sudama, an African American senator from Illinois who was selected as a vice presidential running mate by the Democratic female presidential candidate. In the story of the book, the African American man impressed the lady and all others with his "anti-war" theme speech, and the lady delivered her nomination acceptance speech based upon a theme called "change" in chapter 9 titled "Democratic Convention and Beverly Hilton’s Nomination Acceptance Speech."

It was this portion of the book which Obama used for his benefit. He adopted the "anti-war" speech for himself ,stating he had opposed (spoken out against) the Iraq war, whereas Hillary had voted in the Senate in favor’ of the war, thus proving himself an anti-war politician and Hillary a pro-war one. This was precisely what was done through the whole speech by the African American man in respect to the Republican rival of Beverly Hilton in the story of the book. Obama then made a call for change his major campaign slogan. These were the only two points on the basis of which Obama proved his superiority over Hillary and defeated her in the primaries, upsetting her and bringing tears to her eyes at the very first state (Iowa) contest. One may recall that initially Obama seemed a dummy or a pigmy sort of candidate campared to Hillary, but only to turn into a formidable challenger later.

Thus, in due course, using the same points, he became a presidential candidate, and subsequently the president. Not only that, Obama issued a major foreign policy statement that he would negotiate with Iran, Syria, and North Korea “without any preconditions,” which sprang directly from the biggest highlighted portion of the speech of the African American man given in the book. Obama’s other foreign policy statement that he would send American forces into Pakistan to fight the terrorists if Pakistan did not fight them sincerely appears to be rooted in his deeper study of chapter 26 "General Hargej Khurapati" of the book .

In the wake of the above evidence, the author of the book is absolutely certain that Obama used the contents of the book to become the president.However, this is not an "accusation"’ of plagiarism against Mr Obama. This is, on the contrary, an appreciation and compliment to him for paying attention to a book written by an obscure author from a third world country and using it to his advantage.By putting it to good use, he thus honored the author. Only an Obama could do it. NOT Hillary, who too had been sent a copy of the book, but she or her staff apparently chose to ignore it. The author of the book, Inder Dan Ratnu, having come all the way from India , paid a personal visit to Hillary’s NY office in the middle of the primary season in order to draw their attention to the power of the above two points, claiming on the basis of those points that Obama could well defeat Hillary. But this advice was met with an arrogant and naive "we know American politics better than any ' foreigner' " by Mrs.
Clinton's staff.

The author can prove his above claim with solid evidence,including that of his visit to Mrs. Clinton's office. But no one should expect him -- a humble writer from a third world country -- to possess the power to extract an admission from a politician who is now president of the United States, Mr. Obama himself, to this effect.