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PM's daughter accuses Sanjaya Baru of violating trust

Terming former media adviser Sanjaya Baru's controversial account of his days in the PMO as "nothing but a stab in the back", Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's daughter has accused him of "violating"......

Narasimha Rao deserved Bharat Ratna: Sanjaya Baru

The Congress party shut the gates of its headquarters and refused to bid official farewell on the death of former prime minister and party president Narasimha Rao, whose ‘crime’ was to......

Sanjaya Baru: 'My book is written partly with a sense of sadness'

'Prime Minister Manmohan Singh refused to allow us to project his real personality to let the people of India know exactly what he really was. He was always shying away from greater public......

PMO attacks former media adviser Baru on his book

Prime Minister's Office on Friday came down heavily on former media adviser Sanjaya Baru accusing him of "misusing" a privileged position for commercial gain in writing a book in which he says......

Of havans and dogs

Sanjaya Baru's book is making waves and how! Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com Sanjaya Baru's book The Accidental Prime Minister tells the extraordinary story of how Sonia Gandhi functioned as......

Sanjaya Baru: America's strategic Pacific offensive!

Sanjaya Baru, former media adviser to the Indian prime minister, in this exclusive column to Rediff.com writes that the United States is creating a new strategic framework for the 21st century and......

Finance ministry: Return of the Gladstonians

The global financial crisis has empowered fiscal conservatives in India, writes Sanjaya Baru. Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a finance ministry that liked to keep its Budgets balanced.......

'A comprehensive and investor-friendly Budget'

Dr Sanjaya Baru is one of India's most respected commentators on political and economic issues.From May 2004 until August 2008, he was the official spokesman and media advisor to the prime minister......

Column: Time to get our fiscal act together

India's political and economic business cycles enter fiscal correction phase, writes Sanjaya Baru. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's assurance in New Delhi on Tuesday that India must return to......

What can India do for the US?

It's a question a lot of people around the world are going to ask this winter, says Sanjaya Baru. Intervening in the debate on the motion of confidence in the Lok Sabha on July 22, 2008, Congress......

Does Anupam Kher look like Manmohan Singh?

Say hello to the cast of The Accidental Prime Minister. The key players in the The Accidental Prime Minister have been unveiled. Anupam Kher, who plays Dr Manmohan Singh, looks almost......

'Manmohan Singh is a sweet man'

'Whenever you see him on television or anywhere else, he gives off grandfatherly vibes.' IMAGE: Akshaye Khanna plays Sanjaya Baru in The Accidental Prime Minister, a film based on Dr Baru's......

'Politics has always been close to Bollywood'

'People, who are objecting to the movie now, should have objected in 2014 when the book came out. But nobody did.' IMAGE: Director Vijay Ratnakar Gutte, left, with Producer Sunil Bohra, Akshaye......

Anupam Kher to play The Accidental Prime Minister

Hansal Mehta will write the screenplay; debutante Vijay Gutte will direct the film. Anupam Kher is set to play Dr Manmohan Singh. The film is based on The Accidental Prime Minister, Sanjaya Baru's......

Will Manmohan, Sonia give NOC for Kher film?

'The makers of The Accidental Prime Minister will have to get an NOC from Manmohan Singhji, Sonia Gandhiji and all the politicians who are part of the narrative,' Censor Board boss Pahlaj Nihalani......