Feroze Varun Gandhi
Feroze Varun Gandhi is a second-term Member of Parliament, who represented the Pilibhit constituency in 2009, and was elected from the Sultanpur constituency in 2014. He was the youngest ever National Secretary of the BJP from 2008 - 11, and the youngest ever National General Secretary of the Party from 2011 - 14. He is a member of its National Executive. A member of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, Gandhi has been a member of several Parliamentary Standing Committees, including those on defence and external affairs.
He is a widely respected opinion leader and policy analyst, writing widely in English for The Hindu, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times and NDTV, and subsequently in Hindi for Amar Ujala, Navbharat Times, Rajasthan Patrika and Hindustan. Gandhi also writes in other important regional languages for Lokmat, Malayala Manorama, Sambad, Vijayvani, among others, which make him the most widely read columnist in the country, reaching over 200 million readers.
A poet by inclination, Gandhi published his first collection of poems, The Otherness of Self in 2000, at the age of twenty. His second volume of poetry, Stillness, was published in 2015. He lives in New Delhi with his wife Yamini and their daughter Anasuyaa.
He is a widely respected opinion leader and policy analyst, writing widely in English for The Hindu, The Economic Times, Hindustan Times and NDTV, and subsequently in Hindi for Amar Ujala, Navbharat Times, Rajasthan Patrika and Hindustan. Gandhi also writes in other important regional languages for Lokmat, Malayala Manorama, Sambad, Vijayvani, among others, which make him the most widely read columnist in the country, reaching over 200 million readers.
A poet by inclination, Gandhi published his first collection of poems, The Otherness of Self in 2000, at the age of twenty. His second volume of poetry, Stillness, was published in 2015. He lives in New Delhi with his wife Yamini and their daughter Anasuyaa.
