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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. “I was ...
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 ...
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.
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.
Arun Shourie has 37 books on Goodreads with 13491 ratings. Arun Shourie’s most popular book is Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fr...
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...
This first exclusive excerpt from Arun Shourie’s memoir revisits one of the biggest stories of the 1980s – that of Kamla, who was purchased by a journalist in an attempt to expose the...
Arun Shourie is one of the sharpest minds of recent times. In this book he takes the pants off the Marxist historians who formed a strangle-hold on historiography in post Independence India. Not just historiography but of intellectual life.
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Jul 4, 2018 · Arun Shourie interview: ‘Focus on what can be done now — to improve governance, the life of people’. Delhi needs to play a more proactive role on the ground. And Kashmiris need to shed fanciful goals like azadi and start preparing a blueprint for the future without the baggage of the past, says Arun Shourie.
