![]() In retrospect, the melodrama of renunciation was the ceremony of empowerment. ![]() Manmohan, who has given matter-of- factness a philosophical touch, is the least prime ministerial of the prime ministers India had, at least in his demeanor.Īnd it is mainly because of the mystique of the leader's surname: Congressmen are yet to see the difference between the power of a Gandhi and a Gandhi in power. ![]() The relationship is a bit more than that, and also a bit less than that. ![]() The prime minister and the party president. Today, together they maintain the balance of power as an unequal pair in a partnership without a precedent. She was an inevitability, the most dramatic in a dynasty that was staging a belated homecoming. He was an accident, the least political of them when politics was a history-shifting astonishment. The chosen manager and the choosy mother figure, holding between them a nation that is being introduced to a new duality, not yet bipolarity, of governance. They are an item nevertheless.Ĭall them the mandarin and the Madonna. ![]() Neither are they the soaring symbolism of yin-andyang of power. They are not exactly the twin towers of Indraprastha. Perfect pair: Sonia Gandhi has played out the power script without visibly overshadowing Manmohan Singh ![]()
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