Barak Obama’s memoirs will be published tomorrow. (File)
New Delhi:
The memoirs of former US President Barack Obama “praised Manmohan Singh hugely” but Prime Minister Narendra Modi “is not mentioned by name at all,” Congressman Shashi Tharoor said in a statement. series of tweets. Mr Tharoor wrote that he had a draft copy of the first of Obama’s two-part memoir “A Promised Land”, released Tuesday and had read every part of India posted in the index.
“Big news: there is not much. Bigger news: in 902 pages, Narendra Modi is not mentioned by name at all,” tweeted the congressman and former trade union minister.
“Huge praise for Dr ManMohan Singh who is warmly described as” wise, thoughtful and scrupulously honest “,” a man of extraordinary wisdom and decency “with whom he has maintained” a warm and productive relationship “although the MMS is” cautious in foreign policy. Its look and respect shines through. “
President Obama “worries about impulses of violence, greed, corruption, nationalism, racism and religious intolerance,” Tharoor wrote, citing the book: “They seemed to be waiting everywhere, ready to do it again surfaced whenever growth rates stagnated or demographics changed. or a charismatic leader chose to ride the wave of people’s fears and resentments. And as much as I could have wished otherwise, there was no Mahatma Gandhi around “.
He added: “It’s hard to imagine that the Sanghis who cheered on social media for a sentence in the brief derive much comfort from these thoughts. They offer a taste of what Vol. 2 is likely to us. say about India in a post. -Ere Manmohan Singh, when Obama returned. “
1. I have obtained a preliminary copy of @Barack Obamaof #APromisedLand and although I haven’t read all the pages, I have read every part of India listed in the index. Big news: there isn’t much. Bigger news: in 902 pages, @Narendra Modi is not mentioned by name at all.
– Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 15, 2020
2. Huge praise for Dr ManMohan Singh who is warmly described as “wise, thoughtful and scrupulously honest”, “a man of extraordinary wisdom and decency” with whom he has maintained “a warm and productive “although the MMS is” cautious in foreign policy “. His gaze and his respect show through.
– Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 15, 2020
5. It is difficult to imagine that the Sanghis who rejoiced on the social networks of a sentence in the memoir derive much comfort from these reflections. They offer a taste of what Vol. 2 is likely to tell us about India in a post-Manmohan Singh era, when Obama returned.
– Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) November 15, 2020
In India, the book rocked a less than flattering description of Rahul Gandhi last week, drawing comments from delighted BJP leaders.
“Rahul Gandhi has a nervous and informed quality about him, as if he was a pupil who had taken the lessons and was anxious to impress the teacher but who basically lacked the aptitude or passion for master the subject, ”The New York Times reported, citing the book. It also extracts a part that describes Manmohan Singh as having a “sort of unemotional integrity”.
Ashok Swain, a professor based in Sweden, produced what he claims to be parts of the book from which the sentences were taken. The section focused on a dinner that President Obama had with former Prime Minister, Congresswoman Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Sonia Gandhi has been described as a “shrewd and energetic intelligence” person who “listens more than she talks” and relies on Dr Singh when questions of policy arose. Rahul Gandhi, Obama writes, “seemed smart and serious”.
The former US president also remembers wondering after dinner what would happen when he left office: “Would the baton have passed successfully to Rahul, fulfilling the destiny drawn by his mother and preserving the domination of the Congress Party on divisive nationalism touted by the BJP? ? “
