i do feel bad for shashi. poor guy, this whole thing will make it hard for him to work with the korean guy, too. but then he had to do it because this is his last chance: by the time the 'asian' chance comes up again, shashi would have retired.
however, he only had a snowflake's chance in hell of winning this time. surely the chinese would have vetoed him. or if not , despite his general fondness for 'south asia', the pakistanis would have ensured that somebody vetoed him.
in the end it turns out the yanks vetoed him. yes, the yanks, not the limeys or the chinese, the other worst rascals on the security council.
http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=142296
and you were saying, manmohan singh, something about a 'special relationship' india had created with the us by bending over and greasing up on the nuclear issue?
i would be ROTFL if it weren't such painful black humor. following on in nehru's footsteps, we have manmohan singh who has a rather large opinion of his skills as an international negotiator, when in fact he, and this poor country, are being taken to the cleaners. just like with nehru.
i think manmohan singh is rapidly gaining on the nehru dynasty in the race for *worst* prime minister of india. he has gujral and deve gowde beaten by a mile already, and he's going from strength to strength.
in reality, the sphinx-like narasimha rao -- a modern-day chanakya -- was the *best* prime minister we had, and the credit for the economic revival should go to him. and of course rao was rewarded for it by being given the equivalent of a beggar's funeral -- his body was shipped off to hyderabad. he had committed the unpardonable crime of not having the dynasty surname.
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cacoethes, kindly edit and repost. i am deleting your post because i object strenuously to your defamation of the sai baba. this sort of calumny is not acceptable on this blog.
i have a simple maxim: any hindu leader is a priori holy and decent unless proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not.
similarly, any christist leader is a priori a fraud and a charlatan unless proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is not. this is because of the inherent nature of that ideology, which is full of lies and deceit.
this, of course, is diametrically opposite to the standard 'secular' indian perspective, where any hindu is guilty by default, and any christist is innocent by default.
Rajeev, I agree 100% with your comments on the best PM. No doubt, Narsingh Rao was the best. There again, his death need not have been so insignificant. Who stopped BJP from making a big propaganda about it? Even now, BJP will do well to celebrate Rao's achievements. It will put both the PM and Sonia in quandary..but then..BJP is not known for any clever tricks. They merely react..And often, too late.
I donno why Rajeev bleeds for this guy Taroor. Every chance he gets he accuses Sangh Parivar as Hindu fundamentalists. He is a perfect bogeyman for the Indian commies. I don’t understand why Rajeev has a soft corner for this guy.
I do agree that Man Moron will beat Nehru for the title worst PM ever by the time he is done. My only concern is what will be shape of Indian union and its future by then.
I think Vajpayee was the best PM we have ever had although I think the best candidate for PM of all politicians in the present would be Narendra Modi.
San, please do not compare Arjun Singh to Machiavelli. Machiavelli was a devious patriot. Arjun Singh is a devious traitor.
As for Shashi Tharoor, I am glad he lost. He is just an articulate muddled up pseudo secularist.
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