Arun Shourie

Arun Shourie (2009)

Arun Shourie (born November 2, 1941 in Jalandhar ) is an Indian journalist, author and politician. He worked as an economist at the World Bank , was an advisor to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and the Times of India, and Minister of State and Minister in the Vajpayee government .

biography

Arun Shourie received his PhD in economics from Syracuse University in the United States and worked for the World Bank from 1967 to 1978.

In 1979, Ramnath named Goenka Shourie as editor-in-chief of the Indian Express. He earned a reputation as an intelligent, fearless writer and editor who fought for press freedom, exposed corruption and defended civil liberties.

He also works as a writer. His writings have won him a considerable following.

bibliography

• Does He Know a Mother's Heart? How Suffering Refutes Religions (2011, ISBN 9789350290910 )
• We Must Have No Price
• Worshiping False Gods (2012, ISBN 9789350293430 )
• A Secular Agenda: For Saving Our Country, for Welding it (1993, ISBN 9788190019934 ),
• Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998, ISBN 81-900199-8-8 )
• Falling Over Backwards : An essay against Reservations and against Judicial populism (2012, ISBN 9789350293553 )
• The World of Fatwas or the Sharia in Action: (2012, ISBN 9789350293423 )
• Are We Deceiving Ourselves Again
• Where Will All This Take Us
• The Parliamentary System
• Courts and their Judgments: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences
• Governance and the sclerosis that has set in (2005, ISBN 9788129105240 )
• Harvesting Our Souls
• Hinduism: Essence and Consequence
• Indian Controversies
• Individuals, Institutions, Processes: How One May Strengthen the Other in India Today
• Institutions in the Janata Phase
• Missionaries in India [1]
• Arun Shourie and his Christian critics
• Mrs Gandhi's Second Reign
• Only Fatherland: Communists, 'Quit India,' and the Soviet Union
• Religion in Politics
• Symptoms of Fascism
• These Lethal, Inexorable Laws: Rajiv, His Men and His Regime
• The State As Charade: VP Singh, Chandra Shekhar and the Rest
• Will the Iron Fence Save a Tree Hollowed by Termites?
• Self = Deception: India's China Policies Origins, Premises, Lessons - Lessons the Chinese Taught Pandit Nehru but Which We Refuse to Learn ( ISBN 9789351160939 )
• with Sita Ram Goel , Harsh Narain , Jay Dubashi and Ram Swarup , Hindu Temples - What Happened to Them Vol. I, (A Preliminary Survey) (1990, ISBN 81-85990-49-2 )
• with Sita Ram Goel , Koenraad Elst , Ram Swarup , Freedom of expression - Secular Theocracy Versus Liberal Democracy , Voice of India (1998).
• with Arun Jaitley , Swapan Dasgupta , Rama J Jois , Harsh Narain - The Ayodhya Reference: Suprema Court judgment and commentaries , Voice of India (1994)

Web links

• The Arun Shourie site
• Interview with Karan Thapar for CNN IBN on the issue of the nuclear deal
• Interview with Karan Thapar for CNN IBN on the issue of reservations
• Interview at rediff.com