संवाद # 148: Shocking stories of Indian politics - Indira Gandhi to Narendra Modi | Neerja Chowdhury

Neerja Chowdhury is an award-winning journalist, columnist, and political commentator. In the course of a distinguished career of over forty years, she was political editor of the Indian Express for ten years and covered the terms of eight prime ministers and ten Lok Sabha elections. She has won several prestigious awards for her journalism including the first Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons (1981), the India Today–PUCL Journalism for Human Rights Award (1983), and the Prem Bhatia Award for Best Political Reporting (2009–10).

She is contributing editor, the Indian Express, and her weekly column, The Neerja Chowdhury Column, is widely followed by participants and observers of contemporary Indian politics.

0:00 Promo
2:48 Intro
4:15 Shastri dead, Indira excited
8:04 Indira - A great listener - why
10:15 Indira & Modi
12:14 Old Monk, RSS & Gandhis
15:30 JP & Kamla Nehru's letters
22:00 Nehru wanted JP to be Deputy PM
25:00 Machiavellian Sanjay Gandhi
27:38 Sanjay wanted to be UP CM
29:52 Ruthless Sanjay
32:33 Indira Gandhi & RSS
35:09 Chamunda Devi & Sanjay's death
40:13 Why Pranab Mukherjee didn't become PM
43:46 Character of Rajiv Gandhi
46:26 Arun Nehru - A different kind of Congressman
49:31 Sonia Gandhi's influence on Rajiv
51:15 Arun Nehru's evil influence?
54:47 RSS, Rajiv Gandhi & Ram Temple
59:21 Ram Temple will be issue in 2024 election?
1:03:11 Proposal to make Ayodhya as Vatican-like
1:06:47 PV Narsimha Rao allowed Babri demolition?
1:12:18 Vajpayee had cancer, his relationship with PVNR
1:15:03 Vajpayee behind Kalyan Singh not becoming UP CM
1:17:14 How PV Narsimha Rao was selected as PM
1:19:13 Did VP Singh regret implementing Mandal?
1:23:41 Real story of how VP Singh became PM, not Devi Lal