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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).
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.
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 ...
Jul 13, 2016 · Arun Shourie, one of India’s leading public intellectuals, is a journalist, author and economist. Arun Shourie with his then senior BJP colleagues Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Murli Manohar Joshi in February 1993. (Express Archive)
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 19, 2022 · Arun Shourie, the legendary editor, former minister and author speaks on his new book, The Commissioner For Lost Causes, on the paper’s iconic founder-proprietor Ramnath Goenka, and of politics...
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 has 37 books on Goodreads with 13464 ratings. Arun Shourie’s most popular book is Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fr...
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.
