“I HAVE NEVER BEEN SCARED OF FAILURE”
During the course of our 60-minute telephonic conversation, Priya Dutt makes it amply clear that she has no regrets. She isn’t hesitant to admit that her defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections gave her time to focus on the Nargis Dutt Foundation, and its road ahead. Vision is probably the first quality that strikes us about the former Congress MP. The second being, positivity. Excerpts from the conversation.
Your father Sunil Dutt set up the Nargis Dutt Foundation (NDF) as he wanted India to have world-class medical facilities for cancer patients. How has it evolved over the years?
The foundation was set up in 1981 after my mother’s passing. At that time, cancer treatment was hardly available in India. During her illness, my parents realised that they were fortunate to have got the best medical treatment (they travelled to the US), but not many were as lucky. Today,
