Arnab Goswami (The Game Changers: The People who Transformed India)

by Vir Sanghvi

His journalism has always emerged from his ability to categorically state — and then defend — his own position on every issue.

understood English but were more comfortable watching a Hindi channel. What if he could create an English channel which would allow Hindi-speaking guests to join its debates with an anchor who would respond to them in Hindi? What if the anchor would be happy continuing the debate in Hindi without the obvious reluctance and discomfort of the anchors on other English channels?

Times Now was less elitist and much more inclusive than other English channels.

Somebody — we still don’t know who — had clearly told Rahul that no matter what the question was, he was to repeat what the UPA had done for women’s rights and for freedom of information. The interview was, eventually, almost painful to watch — like a car crash in slow motion. It finished off Rahul’s campaign — at least in the eyes of educated Indians — even before it could begin.

I ask him about his legendary stamina and he attributes it to a regular life. He can get by on only three hours of sleep, he says, because he doesn’t waste time on needless socializing, does not drink and does not smoke.