As Manmohan Singh anticipated, history will judge him kindly. Question: what would historians describe him as? A socialist, or one who earned immortality by junking socialism? Singh insisted he remained a non-doctrinaire, open-minded socialist. Intellect and simplicity gave him the credibility to make pragmatic ideological shifts, from economy to America.
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