Before his visit to Egypt, Rahul had an important meeting with the owners-editors of several prominent newspapers. There was a special reason behind this meeting, the young Rahul wanted to know the views of the editors on issues such as India’s relations with its neighbours, the explosive situation in Afganistan and river links. N. Ram of The Hindu reached Delhi from Chennai and Avik Sarkar of The Telegraph came from Kolkata. Venkat Raju of Asian Age, Vineet Jain of The Times of India and Shekhar Gupta of Indian Express were all there. Since Shobana Bhartiay of the Hindustan Times was not in the country then, so she could not come.