Sanjaya Baru | India's Great Helmsman: Salute to Narasimha Rao
3 years, 6 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | India's Great Helmsman: Salute to Narasimha Rao

Deccan Chronicle  

It was interesting that the day after Congressman Jitin Prasada joined the BJP, the political future of Rajasthan’s Sachin Pilot has become the subject of renewed media speculation. Narasimha Rao lent his prime ministerial imprimatur to the sweeping industrial and trade policy reforms that set India on a new growth path. A second set of policy initiatives that many will credit Narasimha Rao with, as they recall his leadership, will be the shifts in India’s foreign and strategic policy. Narasimha Rao also launched the “Look East Policy”, making India reconnect to the Rising Asia to her east. While these two aspects --economic and foreign policy -- of Prime Minister Rao’s leadership will be much commented upon, few are willing to give him any credit for his leadership of the Congress Party.

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Sanjaya Baru | NDA triumph in Maha will stabilise Modi’s leadership
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Sanjaya Baru | NDA triumph in Maha will stabilise Modi’s leadership

Deccan Chronicle  

If New Delhi is India’s national capital, Mumbai is the financial capital. The BJP’s loss of its parliamentary majority in the Lok Sabha elections, requiring it to revive the National Democratic Alliance, securing the support of the Telugu Desam Party and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal, had clearly impacted Prime Minister Modi’s standing and, perhaps, his own self-confidence. If, after all …

Narasimha Rao Was a Batman of Indian Politics, Bharat Needed to Acknowledge this Ratna
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Narasimha Rao Was a Batman of Indian Politics, Bharat Needed to Acknowledge this Ratna

News 18  

Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, in a true sense of the word, was a Batman of Indian politics. This explains Sonia Gandhi’s hostility toward Rao, to the extent that the former Prime Minister was denied a well-deserved memorial in Delhi, even when lesser worthies could find space in the national capital. Later in the day, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh …

Former PM PV Narasimha Rao pioneered India’s economic reforms
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Former PM PV Narasimha Rao pioneered India’s economic reforms

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi government’s decision to confer the Bharat Ratna, country’s highest civilian award, to PV Narasimha Rao posthumously, will be seen, in one part, as recognition for a political leader who put India on the path of prosperity by initiating economic reforms. Rao became India’s unlikely prime minister after Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination during the campaign for 1991 …

Bharat Ratna to Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh: How Amit Shah, BJP reacted
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Bharat Ratna to Narasimha Rao, Charan Singh: How Amit Shah, BJP reacted

India TV News  

Former prime ministers P V Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh as well as agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Friday. The BJP welcomed the decision by calling the Bharat Ratna for Narasimha Rao as 'befitting tribute to the legendary statesman who shaped the history of our nation' …

Narasimha Rao to be honoured with Bharat Ratna: Facts about India's ex-PM behind economic revolution
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Narasimha Rao to be honoured with Bharat Ratna: Facts about India's ex-PM behind economic revolution

India TV News  

Bharat Ratna for PV Narasimha Rao: India's former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao will be honoured with country's highest civilian award 'Bharat Ratna', Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed on Friday. "Delighted to share that our former Prime Minister, PV Narasimha Rao Garu, will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna," PM Modi wrote on X. "Narasimha Rao Garu’s tenure as Prime …

Sanjaya Baru | India & China: Of power, performance & posturing
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Sanjaya Baru | India & China: Of power, performance & posturing

Deccan Chronicle  

A note written by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the country’s first home minister, in 1949 on the view India ought to take of China is once again in the news. By not allowing the border issue, with China occupying newly acquired territory along the so-called “Line of Actual Control” to further mar the relationship, Prime Minister Modi has yielded space and …

BRS, Congress and BJP Remember PV on 102nd Birth Anniversary
1 year, 5 months ago

BRS, Congress and BJP Remember PV on 102nd Birth Anniversary

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Parties across the political spectrum on Wednesday paid tributes to former Prime Minister P.V. In a media statement on Wednesday, Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao called Narasimha Rao “a son of the Telangana soil” and said he had rescued the country from critical conditions. TPCC chief A. Revanth Reddy took to Twitter to pay tribute to the person he …

Sonia Gandhi left her indelible mark on Telugu politics
1 year, 9 months ago

Sonia Gandhi left her indelible mark on Telugu politics

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Congress former president Sonia Gandhi, undoubtedly a power centre in Indian politics for over three decades, has left an indelible mark on the Telugu political canvas. After much dilly dallying, she chose Bellary in Karnataka, where she defeated Sushma Swaraj, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s “desi” answer to Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origins. When Rao was ready join the Congress with …

Sanjaya Baru | India-US ties: It’s like riding a roller coaster
1 year, 11 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | India-US ties: It’s like riding a roller coaster

Deccan Chronicle  

Foreign correspondents have always been a window to the world. A new addition to the short list of books by Indian journalists posted overseas is Seema Sirohi’s recently published worm’s eye view of the ups and downs of US-India relations over a 30-year period. Third, the role played by Prime Ministers Atal Behari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh, on the Indian …

Narasimha Rao's grandson slams Rahul over 'walking exercise', 'no respect for...'
1 year, 11 months ago

Narasimha Rao's grandson slams Rahul over 'walking exercise', 'no respect for...'

Hindustan Times  

Telangana Bharatiya Janata Party leader and grandson of former prime minister PV Narasimha Rao - NV Subhash - on Monday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleging that he has “little” respect for non-Gandhi party leaders while referring to his grandfather. Speaking of Rahul's visit to the memorials of former prime ministers, he alleged that the Congress MP addressed …

Sanjaya Baru | Queen and the republic, and our feudal loyalties
2 years, 3 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Queen and the republic, and our feudal loyalties

Deccan Chronicle  

The death of Queen Elizabeth II earlier this month has evoked worldwide admiration for the manner in which the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch conducted herself over a difficult century. Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have renamed Rajpath as “Kartavyapath”, but most Indians are still in awe of feudal vestiges, including the Raj. Apart from our attitude towards the Queen …

Sanjaya Baru | Revisiting PMs: Museum in Delhi underplays PV Â
2 years, 5 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Revisiting PMs: Museum in Delhi underplays PV Â

Deccan Chronicle  

It is not clear whether it was just intellectual laziness or bureaucratic safe play or just plain bias that the designers of the newly built Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya in New Delhi chose to allocate more or less the same space to most of our Prime Ministers, virtually equating most of them. In my book, recording Prime Minister Narasimha Rao’s contribution to …

PV Narasimha Rao birth anniversary: Top leaders remember former PM
2 years, 5 months ago

PV Narasimha Rao birth anniversary: Top leaders remember former PM

Hindustan Times  

Several leaders on Tuesday paid tributes to the former prime minister of India PV Narasimha Rao on the occasion of his birth anniversary. “Tributes to the former Prime Minister of the country, Shri PV Narasimha Rao ji, who was a multifaceted personality, on his birth anniversary,” Kejriwal wrote on Twitter. Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that PV Narasimha Rao …

Sanjaya Baru | From politics to business: All eyes are on Hyderabad
2 years, 6 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | From politics to business: All eyes are on Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle  

From Rahul Gandhi to Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, top national politicians have been making their presence felt in Hyderabad this past month, even as Telangana’s chief minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao was busy testing the national political waters and the city’s poster boy, K.T. Sometime in 1998 I received a call from the state’s finance secretary, Duvvuri Subba Rao requesting …

Sanjaya Baru | Dissolving a proprietorship: Congress must reinvent to relive
2 years, 9 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Dissolving a proprietorship: Congress must reinvent to relive

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s prime ministership has now become a proprietorship, wrote Prime Minister P.V. When those concerned with the drift in the Congress Party say that they would like Mrs Sonia Gandhi to remain the party president but seek an assurance that her son would not be thrust on them as her successor, they are essentially asking her to behave like a …

Sanjaya Baru | Rahul Bajaj: A business icon and national leader
2 years, 10 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Rahul Bajaj: A business icon and national leader

Deccan Chronicle  

It is a testimony to his standing both within India’s business community and society in general that the tributes to the memory of industrialist Rahul Bajaj have been so effusive and warm. Commenting on a note addressed to then Union finance minister Manmohan Singh by a group of top business persons, I published a column entitled “From Plan to Plea”. …

Sanjaya Baru | The politics of reform: A tutorial for Mr Modi
3 years ago

Sanjaya Baru | The politics of reform: A tutorial for Mr Modi

Deccan Chronicle  

The decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the three farm reform laws he had introduced last year has been criticised by many advocates of economic reform and liberalisation as a major policy and political setback. Narasimha Rao was forced in 1991 to introduce “reforms by stealth” because of an economic crisis, Mr Modi’s reforms were products of the …

Sanjaya Baru | Regionals' national role: Mapping a path to 2024
3 years, 1 month ago

Sanjaya Baru | Regionals' national role: Mapping a path to 2024

Deccan Chronicle  

Next week the seventeenth Lok Sabha crosses the halfway mark of its five-year term. Surprisingly, though, the non-BJP parties have been slow in demanding greater accountability for the PM’s mishandling of the China challenge, even though Rahul Gandhi did not miss the opportunity to tweet that “our national security is unpardonably compromised because GOI has no strategy and ‘Mr 56’ …

Sanjaya Baru | Congress Party has old whine for new battles
3 years, 2 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Congress Party has old whine for new battles

Deccan Chronicle  

In his fictionalised autobiography, The Insider, former Prime Minister P.V. When Mrs Sonia Gandhi took charge as its president, the party constitution was amended with Clause 5 of the Congress Parliamentary Party constitution reading: “The chairperson shall have the authority to name the leader of the Congress Parliamentary Party to head the government, if necessary.” The roots of the present …

PV Narasimha Rao: From packing his bags to India's 'accidental' prime minister
3 years, 5 months ago

PV Narasimha Rao: From packing his bags to India's 'accidental' prime minister

India Today  

Mata-e-karwaan jata raha, Karwaan ke dil se ehsas-e-zyan jata raha — Allama Iqbal Even in death PV Narasimha Rao kept away from the headquarters of the party he had once headed. The former prime minister’s 9, Motilal Nehru Marg residence in Delhi was barely 200 metres away from the Congress’s 24, Akbar Road headquarters, but Rao had not once visited …

Sanjaya Baru on the rise of India’s New Power Elite | The Hindu Books Podcast
3 years, 8 months ago

Sanjaya Baru on the rise of India’s New Power Elite | The Hindu Books Podcast

The Hindu  

In today’s episode we are in conversation with author Sanjaya Baru about his new book India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural Revolution. The ascent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national arena has disrupted politics as we knew it and the BJPs’ subsequent dominance over political discourse has led sociologists and political commentators to find new idioms …

Sanjaya Baru | Diaspora & democracy: Global Indians go local
3 years, 10 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Diaspora & democracy: Global Indians go local

Deccan Chronicle  

Many among overseas Indians have for long been interested in and concerned about developments back home in Mother India. In 2014 hundreds of overseas Indians took time off from their work abroad to visit India and get involved in Narendra Modi’s election campaign. It is, therefore, ironic to see the same Modi government now lecture many among the overseas Indian …

Sanjaya Baru | Trump to Biden: Modi’s US ties in need of reset
3 years, 10 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Trump to Biden: Modi’s US ties in need of reset

Deccan Chronicle  

Ending his much-acclaimed address to a joint session of both Houses of the American Congress in July 2005, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, to rapturous applause: “Partnerships can be of two kinds. Mr Trump’s “America First” policies created new uncertainties for India’s “interests”, in areas such as trade and immigration policy, while Prime Minister Modi’s “Atma Nirbhar Bharat” trade and …

Sanjaya Baru | Sitharaman’s Third Act: What’ll be her Big Idea?
3 years, 11 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Sitharaman’s Third Act: What’ll be her Big Idea?

Deccan Chronicle  

Despite her best efforts, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has not yet secured her place in the history books. Dr Manmohan Singh’s 1991 Budget gave him a place in the history books long before he earned it again as Prime Minister with the India-United States civil nuclear deal. We now know from official data that the economy has shrunk by …

Narasimha Rao did not get due recognition: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu
3 years, 11 months ago

Narasimha Rao did not get due recognition: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu

India TV News  

Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said that former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao did not get "due recognition" despite of his major role in accelerating the country's development through bold economic reforms initiated during his tenure when there was a severe "economic crisis" and political "uncertainty". Lauding Krishna Rao for coming out with the book on Narasimha Rao, …

Narasimha Rao Did Not Get Due Recognition: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu
3 years, 11 months ago

Narasimha Rao Did Not Get Due Recognition: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu

News 18  

Paying tributes to the late PV Narasimha Rao, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Sunday said bold economic reforms initiated by the former prime minister have helped accelerate the country's development. Releasing a Telugu book titled "Viplava Tapasvi: PV" written by journalist A Krishna Rao in Hyderabad, Naidu said the country was facing severe economic crisis and political uncertainty when …

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