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The tough interviewer who can boldly challenge his subjects opinions to their face, or prod them relentlessly to answer an uncomfortable question and do so till they break, creating a minor sensation and a major news headline is a rare breed..
Karan Thapar is one of them, notoriously famous for making cricketer Kapil Dev cry on TV and for making then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi awkwardly end an interview mere minutes into it..
On the eve of the launch of his new book,Sound & Fury, a selection of 21 of his most recent interviews, he sits down with us for a long chat..
Now, if I was Sudhir Chaudhary, I would have said: If the argument is that criticising the country abroad is unacceptable and you must apologise for it, then dont you think Mr. Modi must apologise for what he said as Prime Minister in Shanghai and Seoul in 2015?.
I think there was a translation from Gujarati or Hindi in his head before he spoke in English, and that put him at a disadvantage this combination of tough questions, and his problem answering because of this translation issue...
