Mihir Dalal

Mihir Dalal is a Bengaluru-based journalist and author. He works on essays and reportage on politics and business. He was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University in New York City.

Arun Shourie’s services as prophet of Modi’s India

The most influential Indian journalist of his era, Arun Shourie traded repute as a leftist dissident to shape the intellectual scaffolding of the Hindu Right – and took much of the country’s elite with him

By Mihir Dalal

/ 15 May 2026