Indian Shuakat Aziz and Pakistani Manmohan Singh

pay no heed 2 these losers Mr. Farooqui. U & i know that these guys r just amrikan stooges;)

bj`s article gets deleted while ``conspiracy`` theories like this one get posted on FP!

this should belong to the humor-section of chowk (if there is any).

Re: # 9 Yup yup...idiots

Mr. M. J. Akbar has unveiled an open secret.



Is the author an idiot? M.J. Akbar hasn`t unveiled squat...it`s the commie Mitra dude who is making the allegation....

Re: # 8
A hallmark of all genuine idiots is their delusional persistence in face of reality. So, for them, it is India that requested US intervention on Kargil and a very neighborly Nawaz Sharif flew to Washington to meet Clinton on the US independence day! He of course couldn`t delay for 24 hours because that would have meant death of more Indian soldiers from cold and hunger. Yes, fellas, stay just like that only for a few years again and Indians won`t have to worry about your being there as a nation.

``Oxford and Howard``? hahahahaha...this has got to be the stupidest thing ever written on chowk..

Idiotic commies...40 yrs of shackling the Indian entrepreneurial spirit and idiotic gandhi swadeshi mantra bullsiht, were the golden days to these sihtbirds.

Harimau:

You cannot blame Nehru for the delays he achieved institutionalization of democracy, education as the foundation for India, and independence for your generation to excel. Do you honestly believe India would have gotten all the foreign direct investment for its needs in those days, when the competition was submissive Japan, S. Korea and Taiwan?

Regarding Indira Gandhi, do you think Morarji Desai would have delivered Bangladesh and ensure long term stability for is now emerging as India. Nixon had to be put on the otherside of the table to implement and she did it. No other Indian leader of the time could have done.

Apply integral calculas on Indian scene, there can be only one conclusion India was blessed to have leaders who rose to the ocassion. I only wish, Pakistan also blessed with such leaders. What Sadna calls invest in flow of hatred, would have been miniscule.

Chalthai:

Dr. Asoke Mitra lost his credibility long ago, and has now lost his marbels also. Dr. Mitra and company not only messed up the largest industrial in India or the time, but also delayed thru his cohorts in planning commission the advent of market economy, through command control economy.

Dr. Man Mohan Singh is a class act in himself. There is some thing common about communists and fundamentalists (Islamic all others), that they see and write a mathemtically tight hypothesis of conspiracies in every thing. Even Shaukat Aziz would call it such an honor to be compared to MMS, it is too big a favor to put the two in the same league. If MMS can remain active for two more elections, India`s market reforms will be complete, and its postion in the region and the world will be unchallenged.

My ratings on this article ....

UTTER BULLSHIT !!!!!

Letter to Editor, The Asian Age

Manmohan Singh’s appointment as FM

Sir, M.J. Akbar’s Byline of February 4, A Prattler’s Rattle, refers to Dr Ashok Mitra’s new
book, A Prattler’s Tale: Bengal, Marxism and Governance. In the book Dr Mitra has revealed that to bail India out of a critical foreign exchange position, the US administration sought P.V. Narasimha Rao’s agreement to the appointment of a finance minister nominated by the IMF and the World Bank after consultations with US authorities. It is also stated that the first person whose name was proposed by Washington DC declined the invitation. M.J. Akbar has rightly called this a startling revelation. Let me reveal something that may throw some light because of my own involvement.

During the 1991 elections to the Lok Sabha, I was assisting the late Rajiv Gandhi as a principal aide with a team of some very close associates that included Sam Pitroda. The team worked only for Rajiv Gandhi (RG, as we referred to him). I was the link between the team and the Congress Party’s Central Election Committee presided over by P.V. Narasimha Rao. I attended all meetings and conveyed RG’s instructions and decisions. As such I was working closely with PV at the time of RG’s assassination.

In the aftermath, I got involved with almost all matters during the transition including PV’s nomination as Prime Minister by the party’s Working Committee, till P.C. Alexander was summoned by PV to assist in the formation of his ministerial team. I am mentioning this as a background to what I know about what Dr Ashok Mitra has ``revealed.``

As mentioned in my book, Working with Rajiv Gandhi (Harper Collins, 1995), by 15 May 1991, RG sensed that he would be back in power. He asked me to start preparations to assume responsibility. As stated on page 222 of the book, we had already started preparations and Sam Pitroda had on his laptop a seven-page document. We knew that the first priority would be the appointment of a highly qualified economist with sound knowledge of financial management, and one who also commanded the trust of the IMF and the World Bank as finance minister. RG tentatively cleared three names. These included Dr I.G. Patel, Dr Manmohan Singh and someone whose name need not be revealed. Sam Pitroda and I knew Dr I.G. Patel very well, he, because of a Baroda connection, and I since my days with the commerce ministry in 1965, and later in the United Nations. IG was then director of the London School of Economics. We failed to secure his agreement.

Dr Manmohan Singh, if I recollect correctly, was at that time out of India on an important assignment. RG asked me to visit Bombay and find out his whereabouts through Venkitaramanan, Reserve Bank of India governor. I was also to meet some selected persons from financial and economic circles in Bombay. As stated in my book, I was on my way to Bombay when I learnt of RG’s assassination. I immediately returned to Delhi and got involved in political activities centred round the nomination of the president of the Congress Party. As soon as it was clear that PV as president of the party would be the candidate for PM’s post, I briefed him on several matters we were dealing with, prior to RG’s death. Especially the fact that RG had cleared the name of Dr Manmohan Singh in case Dr I.G. Patel was not available. Dr P.C. Alexander in his book, Through the Corridors of Power (Harper Collins, 2004), has described when and how he sought Dr Manmohan Singh’s agreement for appointment to that post. Thus Dr Manmohan Singh was appointed as finance minister.

There is another matter in Dr Mitra’s book to which M.J. Akbar has drawn attention: ``Washington sought an implicit guarantee ... that ‘the IMF and the World Bank would nominate the finance minister of the country after consultations with the US authorities’.`` About this, at this stage, let me only state that the financial crisis was so severe that the United States’ representatives on the IMF and the World Bank had started seriously looking into the post-election scenario and how to bail India out of the economic crisis. However, to the best of my knowledge, there was no name proposed for the post of finance minister. In any case, the person for that post had already been selected by RG. PV had accepted the name without reservation.

R.D. Pradhan

Former Governor of Arunachal Pradesh

Mumbai

ek aur ch`tiye ne ulti kari chowk pe ....

In all my 7 years of reading chowk silently this piece has to take the cake. After reading this article, ihave been humming

Ding dong bell
pussy in the well
who put her in
little America kin

Whatever next!

Daayum, this was so good I was thinking of reading it as a bedtime story for my two year old except I balked at the bad grammar, bad english and the really bad spelling of ``hanki``.

What use is a ``hanki`` without a ``panki``?

You don`t want to corrupt impressionable young minds.

Now I have seen it all......