Third, he had the ability to adapt rapidly to suit emergent circumstances. He read extensively and knew multiple languages, and started learning the piano and Spanish towards the end. Second, that he was innately a curious man. First, that Narasimha Rao was a political survivor who learnt to mask his ambitions. Computers turned out to be his only friend when he died a lonely man.Īccording to the author, this story struck him for three reasons. Curious, Rao called his youngest son, Prabhakar, who was an electrical engineer in Hyderabad and asked: "What is a computer?" Rao hired a tutor and learnt how to use the computer his son sent him the next day. During his defence ministership Rao apparently heard a conversation between Rajiv Gandhi and a friend on the need to reduce import restrictions on computer peripherals and how his cabinet members would not understand. The author first encapsulated Narasimha Rao's character through an anecdote. It was chaired by Ambassador (Retd) Salman Haidar, Patron, IPCS, and former Foreign Secretary, Government of India. The Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) hosted Dr Vinay Sitapati, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University, for a discussion on his book, Half Lion: How PV Narasimha Rao Transformed India.
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