<p class="title">Well-known writer-journalist Sagarika Ghose has called upon the students to ‘think and act independently’ withstanding the interference of any government in their matters of private choice.</p>.<p class="bodytext">'The government cannot decide on behalf of the students – on what they should wear, eat, think and act,' she asserted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Interacting with the students of Gandhian Centre for Philosophical Arts and Sciences (GCPAS), MAHE, Sagarika Ghose, the author of the book 'Why I am a liberal', said that the freedom of every kind (enshrined in the Constitution), should be guarded carefully by the students against any interference by any government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“That is exactly the spirit of my book and I have also drawn from Mahatma Gandhi in this regard. Satyagrahi is an ideal idealist,” she added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sagarika, who has also authored biographies of two late prime ministers – Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee – said her approach to biographical writing is to bring in a certain ‘fictional form to the factual content'. She also read out a few passages from her books to demonstrate her point.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As a journalist with a wide-ranging experience in both print and electronic media, Sagarika said, while the media scene is changing technologically, the values are at stake, warranting serious consideration.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the beginning, the GCPAS head Prof Varadesh Hiregange said that Sagarika’s creativity manifests in different ways such as in journalism, fiction and biography.</p>
<p class="title">Well-known writer-journalist Sagarika Ghose has called upon the students to ‘think and act independently’ withstanding the interference of any government in their matters of private choice.</p>.<p class="bodytext">'The government cannot decide on behalf of the students – on what they should wear, eat, think and act,' she asserted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Interacting with the students of Gandhian Centre for Philosophical Arts and Sciences (GCPAS), MAHE, Sagarika Ghose, the author of the book 'Why I am a liberal', said that the freedom of every kind (enshrined in the Constitution), should be guarded carefully by the students against any interference by any government.</p>.<p class="bodytext">“That is exactly the spirit of my book and I have also drawn from Mahatma Gandhi in this regard. Satyagrahi is an ideal idealist,” she added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Sagarika, who has also authored biographies of two late prime ministers – Indira Gandhi and Atal Bihari Vajpayee – said her approach to biographical writing is to bring in a certain ‘fictional form to the factual content'. She also read out a few passages from her books to demonstrate her point.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As a journalist with a wide-ranging experience in both print and electronic media, Sagarika said, while the media scene is changing technologically, the values are at stake, warranting serious consideration.</p>.<p class="bodytext">In the beginning, the GCPAS head Prof Varadesh Hiregange said that Sagarika’s creativity manifests in different ways such as in journalism, fiction and biography.</p>