Here’s what Barack Obama wrote about Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bollywood in book
WASHINGTON: Former US President Barack Obama stated that he has all the time held a particular place for India resulting from his childhood years spent in Indonesia listening to the epic Hindu tales of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The former US President additionally talked about that he had by no means been to India earlier than his Presidential go to in 2010, however the nation had ‘all the time held a particular place in my creativeness’.
“Maybe it was its (India’s) sheer size, with one-sixth of the world’s population, an estimated two thousand distinct ethnic groups, and more than seven hundred languages spoken,” Obama writes on his fascination of India in his newest e-book ‘A Promised Land’.
“Maybe it was because I’d spent a part of my childhood in Indonesia listening to the epic Hindu tales of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, or because of my interest in eastern religions, or because of a group of Pakistani and Indian college friends who’d taught me to cook dahl and keema and turned me on to Bollywood movies,” Obama writes.
The feedback are available in his memoir ‘A Promised Land’.
In ‘A Promised Land’, Obama offers an account of his journey from the 2008 election marketing campaign to the top of his first time period with the daring 2011 Abbottabad (Pakistan) raid that killed Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Last week, Obama’s feedback on a number of Indian leaders, together with Rahul Gandhi, in his memoir grabbed headlines, with the BJP highlighting the essential observations made by Obama concerning the Gandhi scion.
Obama mentions in his e-book that India turned a extra market-based economic system within the 1990s, which led to main progress and a rising center class within the nation. “As a chief architect of India’s economic transformation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seemed like a fitting emblem of this progress: a member of the tiny, often persecuted Sikh religious minority who’d risen to the highest office in the land, and a self-effacing technocrat who’d won people’s trust not by appealing to their passions but by bringing about higher living standards and maintaining a well-earned reputation for not being corrupt,” stated Obama.
Talking about former PM Manmohan Singh, Obama writes in his memoir that PM Singh had resisted calls to launch assaults in opposition to Pakistan after 26/11 Mumbai assaults, however the resolution precipitated him political harm. “He feared that rising anti-Muslim sentiment had strengthened the influence of India’s main opposition party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). ‘In uncertain times, Mr. President,’ the prime minister said, ‘the call of religious and ethnic solidarity can be intoxicating. And it’s not so hard for politicians to exploit that, in India or anywhere else’,” he writes, quoting former PM Singh.
Obama writes that India’s politics nonetheless revolved round faith, clan, and caste. He provides that Dr Singh’s elevation as prime minister, which was additionally known as as an indicator of the nation’s progress in overcoming sectarian divides, was not really true.
(With PTI inputs)
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