 Daughter of Inna Ramamohan Rao, former director of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, she married Prem's son Sanjiv in 1988 and furthered ANI's access within the government.For years along, ANI effectively served as an external publicity division of Ministry of External Affairs, showing the Army in a positive light and suppressing news about any internal discontent; the private nature of the organisation gave an air of non-partisan legitimacy to their videos.During the peak-spans of militancy in Kashmir Conflict, ANI was the near-sole purveyor of video-footage, esp.