About Arun Shourie
Arun Shourie is an Indian economist, investigative journalist, newspaper editor, author and politician. He has worked as an economist with the World Bank, a consultant to the Planning Commission of India, editor of the Indian Express and The Times of India and a Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the Vajpayee Ministry (1998–2004). During the Emergency period, through his investigative reporting, he wrote extensively against the Indira Gandhi Government, exposing censorship, corruption and human rights violations; later when Ramnath Goenka made him the editor of The Indian Express he wrote extensively exposing corruption, this won him the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1982, and the Padma Bhushan in 1990. He was awarded the prestigious International Editor of the Year Award in 1982, given by World Press Review, New York. Shourie (1911–2005), who was a well-known consumer activist in India, who founded NGO, Common Cause. The Government of India awarded Hari Dev Shourie the Padma Bhushan and the Padma Vibhushan, the third- and second-highest civilian awards. Hari Dev Shourie was also named on the People of the Year by the Limca Book of Records.
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