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Billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist George Soros believes China is best situated to emerge sooner from the current economic crisis, but India is more solid than most countries due to its pent-up domestic demand and need for infrastructure. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Soros says India has done very well by deregulating, as it was over-regulated
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Monday , 1 June '09
With the war on the LTTE over, a jubilant President Mahinda Rajapaksa may decide to hold early elections in Sri Lanka. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Rajapaksa says there will be no anti-Tamil campaign, as he wants Tamils to vote him back to power. He says M Karunanidhi and J Jayalalithaa are welcome to visit the island
Monday , 25 May '09
They both belong to matrilineal societies and are both lawyers who have worked for the same legal firm, yet they are very different. They belong to different corners of the country and practise different religions. Youngest MPs of the 15th Lok Sabha, Agatha Sangma and Hamdullah Sayeed, however, stress that this unity in diversity is a source of strength for them while working together in the UPA Government. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Agatha and Hamdullah talk about their drea...
Monday , 11 May '09
What do Dalit residents of a UP village want from this Lok Sabha election? In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Kohni Pratappur villagers say that more than food, water and electricity, they want freedom from crime and criminals and that their vote should be accounted for
Monday , 4 May '09
Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, former Chief Justice of India J S Verma led an initiative to fight criminalisation of politics. A public appeal, signed by Verma and 200 others, asked political parties to desist from giving tickets to ‘tainted’ politicians. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Justice Verma says that since judges are the ones enforcing accountability, they need to be more transparent than everyone else
Monday , 20 April '09
CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury refuses to be drawn into any discussion on how the Third Front hopes to get the numbers to form a government, whether Mayawati is the Front’s PM candidate. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, he says Marxism is not a dogma that cannot change with time
Monday , 13 April '09
In the final part of his interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, former NSG chief J K Dutt:: says that as a result of Operation Black Tornado, the force will be modernised and get a lot of the equipment that is available with commando forces across the world
Monday , 6 April '09
In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, former NSG chief J K Dutt relives the 26/11 operation at the Taj, Mumbai. Dutt says the NSG was not short of ammunition, but had to factor in the possibility of collateral damage
Monday , 30 March '09
Dr John Adler, inventor of the cyberknife, a radiotherapy instrument that allows oncologists to treat most tumours painlessly, believes that academics in the US haven’t been so happy in several years now. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Adler says that if he was the US President, he would suck as much talent out of India as possible
Monday , 23 March '09
Former prime minister H D Deve Gowda claims that he is not in the race for the top job this time. In an interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Deve Gowda says that he would like to see his party come to power in Karnataka on its own and that he personally has no hesitation in supporting Mayawati as the prime ministerial candidate
Monday , 16 March '09
Be it the Manmohan Singh-led UPA or the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led NDA, Ram Vilas Paswan has always been allotted a key ministry. In this interview with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Paswan claims that the UPA will be back in power with Manmohan Singh as its PM. He dismisses Mayawati’s prime ministerial candidature and predicts that the Third Front will fall apart even before the Lok Sabha election
Monday , 9 March '09
For Dr Zakir Naik, the tele-evangelist who preaches Islam in its most pristine form, Osama bin Laden is neither a terrorist nor a saint. And he sees Sadhvi Pragya the same way. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, he says some young Muslims have been brainwashed with wrong information, but they are few in number
Monday , 2 March '09
Having seen the lows of being dropped from the team and the highs of scoring most runs in the squad, Gautam Gambhir has come a long way. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, he talks of aggressiveness, the insecurity he felt in the initial phase of his career and the qualities of a good captain
Monday , 23 February '09
The face of Slumdog Millionaire in India, Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor can be described as ‘ageless’. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Anil Kapoor talks about how he reinvented himself, his advice to his daughter, and how he once tried to change his surname....
Saturday , 21 February '09
A key pivot in the core team that’s steering the Indian economy through the current crisis is Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24X7’s Walk the Talk, Ahluwalia talks of the Interim Budget, the unfolding government response, what the Reserve Bank of India can - and should do
Monday , 16 February '09
For biologist and discoverer of enzyme telomerase, Elizabeth Blackburn, science is a process of thinking about how things work and religion is about accepting faith and authority. In this interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Blackburn talks about the eight years in which science did not get support from the Bush administration and how after 200 failures, they could clone one Dolly, the sheep
Monday , 9 February '09
Since 1977, Pranab Mukherjee has been involved in the drafting of the Congress manifesto. In this concluding part of an interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, the External Affairs Minister says that despite the break-up with the Left, there’s no bitterness in his heart. As far as Pakistan is concerned, he says that India has done nothing to create tension in the region
Monday , 2 February '09
Punctual and disciplined, Pranab Mukherjee has his hands full. He wishes he had more than 24 hours in a day so he could cope with things in a ‘better way’. In this interaction with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Mukherjee fondly remembers the days of Indira Gandhi, talks about the Left opposition to the nuclear treaty and discusses the never-ending cycle of terror emanating from the Pak soil and the PM’s virtues
Monday , 26 January '09
Three months since he returned to mainstream politics, Peter Mandelson, British Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, has his task cut out. He has to take tough measures to put the banking system back on track. In this interaction with Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Mandelson says that terrorism has no justification and that it is more important that the guilty are punished rather than where they are brought to justice
Monday , 19 January '09
As the country readies for the next Lok Sabha elections, BJP’s general secretary Arun Jaitley shoulders the responsibility of stitching alliances for his party. In his interaction with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief SHEKHAR GUPTA on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Jaitley underlines that national security remains the key challenge before India and how the UPA Government is floundering on that front
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