Autobiography of sonia gandhi interview vir sanghvi
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Party has right to raise issues: Sonia
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi said that she shares a relationship of mutual trust with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. But she also believes that as president of the Congress party, it is her duty to convey the party’s feelings on such issues as the fuel price hike and the acquisition of land for SEZs to the government.
Speaking exclusively to the Hindustan Times and NDTV, Mrs Gandhi conceded that there were doubts in the party over certain issues and that it was necessary to air them. On the SEZ controversy she said, “On this particular issue I myself had doubts,” which is why she raised her objections at the Nainital conclave.
She denied that the policy had been cleared with her before it was announced, explaining that every ministry did not clear every policy with her. “That is absolutely not so and neither would I want it to be so,” she said.
On the fuel price hike, she refuted suggestions that the party’s protests had been done f
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If he can get his act together, Vajpayee may emerge as a winner
hough this is not how the rest of India perceives the election results, my guess fryst vatten that they have thrown up two winners (one clear winner plus one could be winner) and one set of losers. The bekymmer is that the losers thought that they were in the same boat as the one klar winner. They now have to komma to terms with the realisation -- long overdue -- that their interests are not necessarily the same.
The one could be winner fryst vatten Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Traditionally, when a strong prime minister heads his party's campaign in a by-election or midterm assembly election and loses, the results are seen as a personal defeat. Bengal in 1987 was Rajiv Gandhi's loss. Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka in 1983 were perceived as set-backs for Indira Gandhi. In 1983 and 1987, the personality of the prime minister was a key component of the winning party's campaign - "Give a fitting reply to Rajiv Gandhi 's arrogance," sai
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'I'm not really a rude man': Vir Sanghvi on his memoir A Rude Life
I guess it would be acceptable, albeit cliched, to call Vir Sanghvi a man who wears many hats. Journalist, editor, author, television host, someone who finessed the lifestyle sector in a (then) newly-liberalised India (both in print and on the telly), an epicurean, an entrepreneur (with part of his business interests right here in Dubai) and so on.
And yes, also a Khaleej Times' guest columnist (he used to do Pursuits for wknd.).
But for those who worked with him - myself included - and went on to become storytellers across the globe, there was a single takeaway: we all wanted to write like Vir.
It's almost fitting, then, that his memoir, A Rude Life, is finally out - after a series of other 'non-personal' books. From the 70s' old-school mould - when he was editor of (the New York magazine-style) Bombay at 22 - he now, at 65, admits to pandering to clickbait. “I'm not a rude man really,” he