Our PM is largely seen as tactiturn and phlegmatic man ,not usually prone to hyperbole .And he definitely has none of those poetic pretensions that used to frequently afflict his predecessor.
He is equannimous person too.From whatever glimpse that i could get of him courtesy DD, he was largerly unflustered and unruffled .This was when he (read the boilerplate template) addressed the nation soon after 'few hundred upper class Gujaratis were attacked in the first class compartments of suburban Mumbai trains for their moral complicity in Gujarat riots.'(Contact Shekhar Gupta and Newsweek for more on this)
But you can trust the 'Indo-Pak Bhai Bhai thing' to get even the most restrained imagination run amuck
What an inspired methaphor that Manmohan has used to unveil his grandiose vision of borderless South Asia
Breakfast in Amristar,Lunch in Lahore, Dinner in Kabul
'Culinary internationalism' or 'Culinary Subcontinentalism' is the latest CBM ,it seems
I end with this quote -
"Power has a way of undermining judgment, of planting delusions of grandeur in the minds of otherwise sensible people and otherwise sensible nations." - Senator J. William Fulbright, 1966
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did you see this
http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/22/stories/2007012299991000.htm
will the hindu ever publish anything like this against any professionals let alone journalists ?
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