[Assam] Blue bloods for UN Chief - UN reform?? Tharoor=MahatmaGandhi=Nehru

[BBaruah at aol.com]

I checked the bio fo  Shashi Tharoor -India's nominee for UN Chief post. 
Seems like a blue blood (like  Rajiv Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi) born in London raised 
in India and US. Which  Indian can afford to have children in UK -even now?
I wonder why Umesh  is sceptical about Sashi Tharoor’s candidature about  the 
position of the United Nation’s  Secretary General. Sashi has an impeccable 
background; he is already an  Assistant Secretary-General..  Only  the other 
day (22 June) my friend. Dr Nilmoni Sikdar paid eloquent tributes to  Sashi in 
our very Assam net. 
I have read one of  Tharoor’s books; I forgot the name of the book; it was 
about the middle class.  So far I remember his thesis was that it was the middle 
class alone who had  brought out revolutionary changes in the society. One 
does not necessarily have  to belong to the lower middle class in order  to hold 
the position of the UN  Secretary-General. It is an out and out political 
appointment for which no  specific qualifications are prescribed.  
Now I find his  question “Which Indian can afford to have children in UK – 
even now?”  I find this  
observation rather  naïve. Assam has very few rich people by Indian 
standards. Even then I know  two 
Assamese families  who are educating their young children in UK. As far as I 
know India’s  aristocracy,  
past and present  (beginning from the ex-Maharajas to the rich industrialists 
of today), are  educating 
their children in UK  and elsewhere. I can elaborate on this point but I 
think it is not  necessary. 
Bhuaban
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