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Arun Shourie (born 2 November 1941) is an Indian economist, journalist, author and politician. He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and The Times of India and a Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the Vajpayee Ministry (1998–2004).
Atal Behari Vajpayee, when he became prime minister in 1998, made Arun Shourie a Rajya Sabha MP and a minister, managing disinvestment and revolutionising India’s telecom industry.
Apr 10, 2022 · As editor of The Indian Express, Arun Shourie was fearless about taking on the establishment. In his latest book, The Commissioner for Lost Causes (Penguin), Shourie, who went on to serve as a Union minister in the Vajpayee Cabinet, documents his work as an editor that unsettled governments, institutions and systems.
Apr 23, 2022 · Arun Shourie rocked the rather staid Indian newspaper world back in the Seventies and Eighties. Though trained as an economist, he left an indelible mark on Indian journalism with his insightful, well-researched crusading campaigns which, at times, changed the course of politics; brought about new legislation and focused public attention on ...
Arun Shourie has 37 books on Goodreads with 13510 ratings. Arun Shourie’s most popular book is Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fr...
Oct 30, 2013 · Almost overnight Arun Shourie, the executive editor ot the Indian Express, became a national "hero". In a swift bloodless journalistic coup, Shourie achieved the impossible - exposing Maharashtra's blue-eyed boy, Chief Minister A.R. Antulay's collection of funds.
Apr 29, 2022 · Relocating to India from his World Bank job due to his son’s illness, Shourie’s passionate critique of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency regime coincided with the fierce opposition mounted by press baron Ramnath Goenka, owner of the Express.
May 29, 2022 · Author: Arun Shourie. Purushottam Agrawal. YOU can idolise him as ‘the angry crusader’ or deride him as a ‘paratrooper’ and of ‘lesser breed’, but you can certainly not ignore ‘the commissioner...
Apr 8, 2022 · If the Emergency made Arun Shourie, then it also left him permanently allied against the Congress, and in a country where there was mostly one-party rule, that was not the most comfortable of corners.
Nov 25, 2020 · In his new book Preparing For Death, writer, journalist, and former politician Arun Shourie reflects on the lives and last days of Buddha, Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Ramana Maharshi, Gandhi_ji_, Vinoba to ease the reader into confronting the great but abrupt finality that is death.
