Benny Aguiar

Benny Aguiar's book Indira Gandhi A Political Biography gave a new perspective to the largely misunderstood first woman Prime Minister of India. He explores the leader India lost in Rajiv Gandhi - The Flight of the Scion. Besides philosophy and theology, Aguiar graduated in Economics from St Xavier's College, Bombay (now Mumbai) and education from St Xavier's Institute of Education, Bombay. In 1961, he was made the editor of the 154-year-old Catholic weekly The Examiner of Bombay. He went on to become the Indian correspondent for international Catholic weekly The Tablet of London, and later served as the editor of the Indian Currents, Delhi. He also wrote for The Month (England), The National Catholic Register (USA), 30 Giorni (Rome) and The Times of India, Bombay. He has been the president of the Indian Catholic Press Association and the South Asia Catholic Press Association.