Everyone wanted answers to the same questions: Why would he not say sorry, instead of defending the seemingly indefensible? Why did he do what he did? What made him befriend Raj Rajaratnam? What was his experience at the correctional facility where he spent two years? What did he make of Preet Bharara? Why did his subsequent appeals fail?Īfter five days of non-stop questioning-and in some cases, grilling-one would have imagined that he would have been completely exhausted. Gupta had been camped in the capital for almost five days, meeting journalists from a range of storied media publications, both global and local. I was told that my interview was the last one he would do, before leaving for a day trip to the Kumbh Mela and then eventually flying back to the US. Not surprising, I said to myself, given that there’s so much to ask him and lots of ground to cover. Some of his earlier interviews had stretched on much longer than expected. But I was told by the Juggernaut Books team as soon as I stepped into the business centre that he was running late. I was scheduled to interview Rajat Gupta at 5:30 p.m. A leading global design school was apparently running its admissions process through the day. And it seemed unusually crowded that afternoon. The business centre at The Oberoi in New Delhi’s Golf Links is located in the basement.
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