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| Barkha Dutt |
In 2008, Manmohan Singh, then-prime minister of India, whispered a barely audible compliment to President George W. Bush during their meeting, sending a collective gasp of disbelief through a gaggle of Indian journalists in the Oval Office. I was among the reporters present, and was startled to hear Singh, a man of exasperatingly few words, break into uncharacteristic hyperbole: “The people of India deeply love you,” to Bush, who was then little loved in his own country. But there was good reason for Singh’s emotionalism: Bush had made good
