Salman right fit and a combative choice

October 29, 2012 13:40

The pink slip has turned fig leaf for the discarded S.M. Krishna; he at least got his departure note right.Krishna can now credibly claim he was being sagely rather than sarcastic when he pre-empted being dumped by announcing he wanted to make way for "youngsters' who are the flavour of the season'.

Salman Khurshid, who assumes his chair in the ministry of external affairs (MEA), is almost 20 years his junior and, at 59, one of India's youngest foreign ministers. Read

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