June , 2006
From India Shining to India Snorting
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On the face of it, as Atal Bihari Vajpayee said, Rahul Mahajan is just a youth who made a mistake. The night before he was to take his father's ashes to the Brahmaputra, Rahul just got a little sad, snorted some cocaine and heroin off a 500-rupee note and passed out. Perhaps Vajpayee is right. Perhaps the fact that Rahul Mahajan, son of an RSS pracharak, is currently India's most famous drug abuser, is simply the error of a directionless youth. Back in Ambejogai in Maharashtra, when the late Pramod was pulling his family up by the bootstraps and spending his mornings in the shakha, cocaine and heroin must have been the last thing on his mind. But why did the ideals of the sangh parivar (however fiercely contested they may be) not pass from one generation to the next? The Rahul....
More about Sagarika Ghose
Sagarika Ghose has been a journalist for 20 years, starting her career with The Times of India, then moving to become part of the start-up team of Outlook magazine, subsequently joining The Indian Express as Senior Editor. She was anchor of the flagship BBC World programme Question Time India before moving to CNN-IBN as prime time anchor and Deputy Editor. She is the anchor of the award-winning flagship debate programme Face The Nation on CNN-IBN. She is also a columnist for the Hindustan Times. She has won numerous awards including FICCI Media Achiever Award and Gr8-ITA Award for Excellence in Journalism. She is a graduate in History from St Stephen's College and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University where she gained an MA and M.Phil in History and International Relations. She is the author of two acclaimed novels The Gin Drinkers and Blind Faith, both published worldwide by HarperCollins Publishers.
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