Important summits in the USA, Russia, Copenhagen can be attended by the Prime Minister of India as he is not a Member of the Lok Sabha

December 7, 2009 — drsubrotoroy

Subroto Roy notes that since Dr Manmohan Singh is the first Indian Prime Minister ever to have chosen with deliberation not to be a member of the Lok Sabha, he has been free to hold important summits at the White House, Kremlin, Copenhagen etc while the Lok Sabha debates mundane matters like the Liberhan Commission report, inflation etc.

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“But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last.

December 7, 2009 — drsubrotoroy

From Facebook:

Subroto Roy  is hurt that Christopher Booker says “Not for nothing was Copenhagen the city in which Hans Andersen wrote his story about the Emperor whose people were brainwashed into believing that he was wearing a beautiful suit of clothes” because he always thought Hans Andersen meant it for modern New Delhi.

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Voyage on the SS Ivernia, Feb 4?-Feb 10 1957

December 7, 2009 — drsubrotoroy

From Facebook:

Subroto Roy  has the faintest recollection of arriving in New York on his second birthday (en route to Ottawa) on this great old ship….

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