THE MAN WHO FORGOT THAT HE WAS THE PRIME MINISTER

On Monday, 6 January 2014 11:35 PM, sunderasr . wrote: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/06/the-man-who-forgot-he-was-prime-minister/ EXCERPT. Ridicule was what greeted Manmohan Singh when, on Friday, he conducted his third – and widely assumed farewell – press conference in nearly a decade as India’s prime minister. The number is indicting in itself, for when the leader of a large, sprawling, vibrant country refrains from speaking to the citizenry in whose name he governs, it indicates either a contempt for public opinion, or a deep-rooted, almost self-defeating, ambivalence toward the demands of high political office.