IT IS UNCLEAR whether Satyanarayan Gangaram ‘Sam’ Pitroda, born to a Gujarati family in Raj-era Odisha, sees himself as looking like a Chinese or an Arab. But he is a textbook case of exceptionally successful myth-making, subject marketing and political PR. From the Indira Gandhi era onward, mythicising narratives by the Congress leadership padded his … Continue reading "The Many Lives of Sam Pitroda"

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