Face to Face India : Conversations with Karan Thapar

Published by Penguin Books India, 2006

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Contents: 1. A.R. Rahman. 2. Aishwarya Rai. 3. Amartya Sen. 4. Amitav Ghosh. 5. Arundhati Roy. 6. Dev Anand. 7. Kapil Dev. 8. Karan Johar. 9. Kumar Mangalam Birla. 10. Maharani Gayatri Devi. 11. R.K. Laxman. 12. Raghu Rai. 13. Ratan Tata. 14. Pt. Ravi Shankar. 15. Sachin Tendulkar. 16. Sam Manekshaw. 17. Shah Rukh Khan. 18. Sonal Mansingh. 19. Viswanathan Anand. 20. Ustad Zakir Hussain. "For several seasons, BBC's groundbreaking television interview programme Face to Face India kept viewers glued to their screens. As the anchor of the popular programme, Karan Thapar set new standards in television journalism. Many of his guests were reticent, reclusive people who were making a rare television appearance. But they felt so much at ease in the course of their conversations with Karan Thapar that they revealed intimate details about themselves that they had never before made public. This book is a collection of some of the most memorable moments from the television programme: Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar recounts how Nehru fell asleep at one of his recitals and how the audience did not clap at the end since they did not want to disturb the Prime Minister; Amitav Ghosh recalls sitting in a defence colony barsaati at the height of summer, a lungi wrapped around him, furiously typing out his first novel; Sachin Tendulkar talks about how he idolized John McEnroe and copied him, right down to the headband; Raghu Rai remembers chasing a baby donkey halfway across the village to take a photograph that would go on to appear in the London Times; and Shah Rukh Khan regales us with the pranks he played at School with a group of friends called the C Gang.".…

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Title
Face to Face India : Conversations with Karan Thapar
Author
Karan Thapar
Publisher
Penguin Books India
Publication year
2006
Condition
As New
Binding
Soft cover

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