Barack Obama spent childhood years listening to Ramayana and Mahabharata

Former US President Barack Obama said that he has always held a special place for India due to his childhood years spent in Indonesia listening to the epic Hindu tales of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Maybe it was its (India’s) sheer size, with one-sixth of the world’s population, an estimated two thousand distinct ethnic […]

Rahul Gandhi is like student ‘eager to impress’ but lacks aptitude, says Barack Obama in memoir

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congres leader Rahul Gandhi find a place in the new memoir by former US President Barack Obama. While he calls Manmohan Singh as ‘having a kind of impassive integrity,’ he describes Rahul Gandhi as one who is ‘eager to impress’ but ‘lacked either the aptitude or the passion’ to […]