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Article: Amar Singh the new dealmaker ; A desperate Congress turns to the master manipulator of realpolitik for survival in the wake of the Left's withdrawal of support. Can Amar Singh save the Government, asks Prabhu Chawla.
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- July 28, 2008
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Power, at its most deceptive level, is an absence. At 27 Lodhi
Estate on a Tuesday morning, it is an absence accentuated by the
stillness of gilded kitsch and other objects that give an idea about
the aesthetics of the resident.
He likes his own image, an immaculately suited gentleman leaning
against the wall on the arty South Bank, the Thames and the London
Eye forming a perfect backdrop.
Providing company to this framed piece in the drawing room are
sundry gods and exotic warriors in metallic splendour.
The man himself is elsewhere, in another room with a colleague,
certainly not ...