Sanjaya Baru is in limelight after publishing book on Manmohan Singh Naming Accidental Prime Minister.
He is an Indian political commentator
and policy analyst, he is currently serving as Director for Geo-Economics and
Strategy at the International Institute of Strategic Studies.
Previously he had
served as associate editor at The Economic Times and The Times of India, and
then chief editor at The Financial Express. He quit the Express to become Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh's media advisor and chief spokesperson, a role in which
he served from May 2004 until August 2008.
In April 2014, Penguin India published The
Accidental Prime Minister, Baru's tell-all memoir about his time at the Prime
Minister's Office (PMO).
In it, Baru alleges that the prime minister was
completely subservient to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who wielded
significant influence in the running of the Singh administration, including the
PMO itself. The book has sparked off a controversy, with the PMO officially
denouncing it as "fiction". Baru, however, has said that he set out
to show an empathetic portrait of the prime minister.
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