“Narasimha Rao was a Batman of Indian politics, Bharat urgently needed to acknowledge this ratna”, First Post, February 10, 2024:
“Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, in a true sense of the word, was a Batman of Indian politics. He became Prime Minister at a time when India’s chips were badly down. In 1991, the country had to pledge its gold to pull the economy from the brink.
He reoriented India’s pro-Soviet Union foreign policy to bring it closer to the Western order. He reached out to Israel without leaving the Palestinian cause — an axis on which the Indian foreign policy still revolves around. And all this he delivered with a minority government.
Sanjaya Baru, in his book 1991: How PV Narasimha Rao Made History, emphasised at this phenomenon, with a tinge of sadness, when he recalled how “at an interaction with students at a university near Delhi, in the winter of 2015”, he asked the audience “what the year 1991 meant to them”. One student readily stood up to say he was born that year — and the entire audience burst into laughter. When Baru insisted on thinking more, there was silence…..”
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