[Assam] Blue bloods for UN Chief - UN reform?? Tharoor=Mice & men

[umesh sharma]

Bhuban-da,
   
  You are right it is a political appointment ("out and Out") rich appointing their own. Do we really need arm chair specialists (many writers are such people). I am reading "Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck -for the first time. He writes about the poor and the happy --since he has worked atleast for sometime in his life -in such fields. He won the Nobel proze for literature.
  Has Tharoor written about his experiences in fighting corruption and organizational reform -has he any experience in these matters -at all? Why not make Stephen Hawkins -the famous writer ("History of Time" ) and scientist as UN Chief --after all he is famous and a writer.
   
  umesh

BBaruah at aol.com wrote:
          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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