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India Retold: WITHOUT SUPERIOR VALUES, INDIA WILL NOT BECOME GREAT
- What Bill Clinton has done now is not very different from what Jaswant Singh did in 1999, but he has emerged as a hero. If anything, the latter showed real personal courage to fly into what was then one of the most dangerous places in the world. The two Americans would not have been released had President Clinton not gone to rogue state North Korea. Similarly, the release of 154 Indians held in Kandahar would most certainly have got jeopardised due to more demands that would have been made by the Taliban and others, after the three released terrorists had touched down safely, had Jaswant Singh not been physically present there. That is what leadership is all about. But not only has Jaswant Singh not been lauded, he has been pilloried by petty political opponents and even a few of his party men who have amply demonstrated more than once that they do not have it in them.
- The media too has to take the lead in celebrating such values and in condemning acts and elements that attempt to erode them, in a completely honest and bipartisan manner.
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
India Retold: WITHOUT SUPERIOR VALUES, INDIA WILL NOT BECOME GREAT
