Barack Obama in his memoirs “A Promised Land” has mentioned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi.
New Delhi: Former US President Barack Obama, in his memoirs “A Promised Land” has mentioned former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congressional Leader Rahul Gandhi.
While Obama described Gandhi as someone who is “eager to impress” but “lacked the aptitude or passion” to master the subject, he called Manmohan Singh “of a kind of impassive integrity.”
A review of the book published in the New York Times quotes Obama directly from the book, “Rahul Gandhi has a nervous and reportable quality about him, as if he were a student who had done the coursework and is eager to impress the teacher, but deep down lacks the aptitude or passion to master the subject. “
“Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seem to have a kind of impassive integrity,” Obama said.
Obama and his wife Michelle had their first official state dinner hosted by Manmohan Singh and his wife Gursharan Kaur in November 2009.
As soon as people came across Obama’s mention of Singh and Gandhi in their memoirs, they began Googling the meaning of words like impassive, integrity, and memoirs.
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The word impassive means “showing no emotion or reaction,” while integrity is “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.”
Fitness is “a natural ability to do something.” Memoir means “a historical account or a biography written from personal knowledge.”
Shapeless means “without a definite shape or form.”
Obama’s memoir “A Promised Land” will be published later this month. It touches on his personal and political life, including his eight years in the White House.
