poor raman is sick with cancer. maybe the drugs are affecting his mind.
isn't this a bit like m-f hussain slobbering all over madhuri dixit (or any other shapely hindu woman)? agree it's an imperfect analogy, and m-f is a horny old goat, but it is a bit strange -- aging men fawning over young(er) women.
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Mr. Raman was always a Dhimmi. This was quite evident in his writing. However, he seems to have completely lost it, of late. He has written a lengthy exculpatory (on Rediff) of Shikhandi Manmohan's "cricket diplomacy" and even minimized Paki cricketer Afridi's hate speech directed at infidel Hindus. Mr. Raman has inexplicably turned into an
inveterate and adamant advocate of "Composite dialogue" with Pakistan - at all costs. There is really nothing anymore to distinguish this one time "strategic analyst" from useful idiot Lahore nostalgists like that imbecile, Kuldip Nayyar.
What explains the character flaws that other bureaucrat turned "strategic experts" like Kris Subhramanyam also share? A lifetime spent serving the dynasty apparently
shapes a certain worldview, which cannot be cured by any amount of "strategic" roleplaying.
karyakarta, the answer to your question is that to be a top bureaucrat under the nehru dynasty requires two characteristics. the first is that you must believe that the nehru dynasty and the bureaucracy together are responsible for all good things in india and that india will collapse without them. the second is that you must have a mild affliction of macaulayism and pseudosecularism, but not too much of it to trash india: after all, indian bureaucracy is the most competent organization without which the world will stop functioning.
without these two characteristics, a bureaucrat can never reach the absolute top post.
in ifs, everyone needs to be a p-sec. this is because nehru used to personally interview the ifs candidates to make sure that the "best" face was put to the white man. in nehru's parlance, this meant being p-sec and worshipping whites. the initial crowd selected by the last englishman selected the next generation of diplomats and so the next generation is p-sec too. that is why you will see a lot of ifs officers who are p-sec.
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