Nine lives of the cat?

When the prime minister of a country starts reciting poetry to journalists, at a bare minimum it generates a sense of a retrospective leisure, a moment of repose in the midst of crisis. On the occasion of the United Progressive Alliance’s ninth anniversary dinner, Manmohan Singh waxed lyrical like a man who had managed to negotiate a stormy journey on a choppy river. Iqbal, as always, was top of the menu.

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