Updated: November 14, 2020 3:10:51 pm
Obama said Gandhi is “like a student eager to impress the teacher, but lacks the aptitude and passion to master the subject.” (Photo: Twitter / @ RahulGandhi)
Former US President Barack Obama has described Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi as having a “formless and nervous quality,” “as a student eager to impress the teacher, but lacking the aptitude and passion to master the matter. “
The comments come in his memoirs ‘A Promised Land’, recently revised for the New York Times by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie when we have the information. The memoirs include Obama’s impressions of various American and world leaders, including Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh, and Vladimir Putin.
On Rahul Gandhi, Obama says he has “a nervous and reportable quality about him, as if he were a student who had done coursework and was eager to impress the teacher, but deep down lacked the aptitude or passion to master. The matter . “
About Sonia Gandhi, the memoirs say that “we are told about the beauty of men like Charlie Crist and Rahm Emanuel, but not about the beauty of women, except in one or two cases, as in the case of Sonia Gandhi.”
Former US Defense Secretary Bob Gates and former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appear to have a kind of “impassive integrity,” the review quoted the book as saying.
Of the recent winner of the US presidential election and fellow Democrat Joe Biden, Obama says: “He is a decent man who could get picky if he thought he was not being given what he deserves, a quality that can come from dealing with a much younger boss ”.
According to Penguin Random House, A Promised Land is the story of Obama’s “unlikely odyssey from the young man in search of his identity to the leader of the free world, describing in surprisingly personal detail both his political upbringing and historical moments in history. first term of his historic presidency, a time of dramatic transformation and confusion. “
The publisher said Obama’s presidential memoirs will be published in two volumes. The first, A Promised Land, is scheduled for a worldwide release on November 17. The publication date of the second volume has not been decided.
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