I loved Nehru's Discovery of India: Suu Kyi

November 14, 2012 18:32

Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia among a host of Parliamentarians and dignitaries listen in to Aung San Suu Kyi as she talks about the course of her life, Myanmar and its connect with India and Nehru. "We want to be not just good neighbours, but brothers. I have special ties with India, we trust the country and its leaders," she says.

Talking about Nehru she said she had many things in common with him including his love for poet WB Yeats, who she says Nehru quoted in his Discovery of India.

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