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| Born to charm |
| He did little when he could have done so much |
| Manmohan Singh once adapted a famous comment about Britain’s R.A. Butler to say that Jyoti Basu was the best prime minister India had never had. The prime minister may long ago have outgrown that personal view privately expressed before he held a gov... |
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| GENTLEMAN PREFERS ISM |
| All his life Jyoti Basu had only two identities. One was that of a communist and the other that of a Bengali bhadralok...|
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| Master of the politics of feasibility |
| India is to be without Jyoti Basu. The new reality will not sink easily into most minds. For most of the past half-a-century, the man had filled a crucial spot in the country’... |
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| “See my condition,” he said, “I have to meet you like this, sitting on my bed.” It was the day prior to his 95th birthday. “I... | Read.. |
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