In his latest column in the Indian Express(Delhi edition), Soli J. Sorabjee has rightly questioned the wisdom of I&B Minister Ambika Soni's "hypersensitive reaction" to the Washington Post critique on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. However, while urging to take the US daily's report "in our stride", Sorabjee calls it "ill-founded", suggesting strong "rebuttal". Is it a sound, suitable advice? Does it not contradict his own approach outlined above? The PM's Information Adviser has issued a "strong rebuttal". Does it sound wise, convincing and sensible? Incidentally, every Indian newspaper readers knows that what Simon Denyer, the New Delhi-based correspondent of the Washington Post has written about the PM is something he-she has been reading and seeing in the Indian media for a long time. It is nothing new or surprising.
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2) Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who was recently elevated to the Rashtrapati Bhawan-the presidential palace-from the post of the Finance Minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, spoke to the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry on September 8. It was sad to read a PTI report on the address in the press the next day in which Mukherjee denounced the "Cassandras of doom" for criticising the slow pace of the Indian economy. It seemed a clear defence of his own less than great performance as the Finance Minister as the situation was causing considerable concern at the time he left. One had hoped that the newly-appointed President would snap his connection with the previous role and the ruling party and examine the views of the critics dispassionately without accusing them of being agents of doom. Unfortunately, Pranab Mukherjee's rhetoric was highly disappointing and ill-advised. He was expected to write a new chapter on a clean slate.
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2) Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, who was recently elevated to the Rashtrapati Bhawan-the presidential palace-from the post of the Finance Minister in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's cabinet, spoke to the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry on September 8. It was sad to read a PTI report on the address in the press the next day in which Mukherjee denounced the "Cassandras of doom" for criticising the slow pace of the Indian economy. It seemed a clear defence of his own less than great performance as the Finance Minister as the situation was causing considerable concern at the time he left. One had hoped that the newly-appointed President would snap his connection with the previous role and the ruling party and examine the views of the critics dispassionately without accusing them of being agents of doom. Unfortunately, Pranab Mukherjee's rhetoric was highly disappointing and ill-advised. He was expected to write a new chapter on a clean slate.
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