Third Eye ~ Interview Series
Starting in 2006, I published for five years an interview series called Third Eye in Indian Express, one of India's main English dailies.
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Inspired by the Proust Questionnaire (some of the questions were the same every time), those conversations explored the person's philosophy of life and their views on spirituality. With whom? Among others: with artists, politicians, businesspeople, social activists, psychologists, and writers.
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My idea was simple — given their significant impact on society, I wanted to understand who those people are more in depth: how do they view life? Why do they do what they do? Do they see themselves as part of a larger orchestration? What are their sources of resilience? What is their idea of happiness? It was fascinating every week to hear such different perspectives...
A
Abdullah, Farooq
Abraham, David
Advani, L.K.
Aga, Anu
Agassi, Shai
Agnivesh, Swami
Ahluwalia, Major H.P.S
Aiyar, Mani Shankar
Alkazi, Ibrahim
Alva, Margaret
Anand, Geeta
Ansari, Anousheh
Arora, Manish
B
Bala, Bharat
Bartholomew, Pablo
Bhartia, Shobhana
Bhasin, Pramod
Bindra, Abhinav
Bissell, William
Bond, Ruskin
Bose, Rahul
Butalia, Urvashi
K
Kaarthikeyan, D.R.
Kakar, Sudhir
Kalmadi, Suresh
Kappor, Anuradha
Karanjawala, Raian
Karnik, Kiran
Kejriwal, Arvind
Khan, Imran
Khan, Ustad Amjad Ali
Khanna, Krishen
Kher, Bharti
Khurshid, Salman
Kohli, Narendra
Kohli, Sunita
Krishnan, L. V.
Kumar, Ashwini
Kumar, Meira
Kumar, Ram
Kumar, Ritu
C
Capra, Fritjof
Caur, Arpana
Chandra, Subhash
Chandrasekhar, Rajeev
Chartoff, Robert
Chaurasia, Hariprasad
Chawla, Rupika
Chowdhury, Neelam Mansingh
D
Damodaran, M.
Daruwala, Keki
Das, Gurcharan
Das, Jatin
Das, Nandita
Das, Tarun
Davidar, David
De, Shobha
Deora, Milind
Desai, Kiran
Desai, Lord Meghnad
Dev, Kapil
Dikshit, Sheila
Dodiya, Anju
Dodiya, Atul
Dube, Anita
Dubey, Lushin
Dutt, Priya
M
Maharaj, Pandit Birju
Mai, Mukhtaran
Mangaldas, Aditi
Mansingh, Lalit
Mansingh, Sonal
Mehrotra, Rajiv
Mehta, Deepa
Mehta, Dilip
Mehta, Jagat Singh
Mehta, Tyeb
Mehta, Zubin
Miller, Arthur I.
Misra, S.K.
Mitra, Amit
Mittal, Rajan
Moily, Veerappa
Mudgal, Shubha
Murthy, Sudha
R
Rai, Raghu
Raje, Vasundhara
Ramachandran, A.
Ramani, Malini
Ramesh, Jairam
Rao, Dr. B. K.
Rao, Ramoji
Rathore, Raghavendra
Ratnam, Anita
Raza, S.H.
Reddy, Prof. K. Srinath
Rewal, Raj
Ribeiro, Julio
Rodick, Anita
Rudy, Rajiv Pratap
S
Sagar, Hemant
Sahgal, Nayantara
Sairam, Aruna
Sarukkai, Malavika
Scindia, Jyotiraditya
Sen, Mithu
Seth, Leela
Seth, Shantum
Shah, Haku
Shand, Mark
Sharma, Aruna
Shaw, Kiran Mazumdar
Sheik, Gulam Mohammed
Sheikh, Nilima
Shekhar, Neeraj
Shetty, Sudarshan
Shinde, Sushilkumar
Shiva, Vandana
Sidhu, Navjot Singh
Singh, Dayanita
Singh, Digvijay
Singh, Dinesh
Singh, Dr. Karan
Singh, General Joginder Jaswant
Singh, K. Natwar
Singh, Malvika "Mala"
Singh, Manpreet
Singh, Rajesh Pratap
Singh, Shivinder
Singhvi, Abhishek Manu
Sinha, Yashwant
Sodhi, Nafisa Ali
Soni, Ambika
Sood, Pooja
Sorabjee, Soli
Sorman, Guy
Sule, Supriya
Sundaram, Vivan
Suri, Jyotsna
Swaminathan, M S
T
Tahiliani, Admiral R.
Tahiliani, Tarun
Tandon, Sunit
Thapar, Gautam
Thapar, Karan
Tharoor, Dr. Shashi
Trehan, Madhu
Trehan, Naresh
Tully, Mark
Tyabji, Laila
G
Gajwani, Gopi
Gandhi, Maneka
Ghai, Subhash
Ghosh, Bikram
Gill, Dr. M.S.
Girard, Dominique
Godrej, Adi
Gokhale, Namita
Gopalan, Anjali
Gopalaswami, N.
Grover, Gulshan
Gupta, Subodh
Guha, Ramchandra
Gujral, Mohit
Gujral, Satish
Gulzar