>>> He thumps his chest and warns Pakistan to behave after taking India nuclear, but is taken aback when Pakistan’s generals immediately use this as an excuse to weaponize their own programme. This has destabilized South Asia for generations. You actually think that Pakis would not have gone nuclear if India hadnt... Actually Pakis were so smart that they made a bomb in 15 days from scratch, because India went nuclear, is it? Do you really think Advani's chest thumping was the reason for Paki making nukes or "weaponize their own programme" ?? Personally, I am not a fan of LK Advani, but I think he is surrounded by some best political minds - Arun Jaitley, Yashwant Sinha, Narendra Modi, etc. >>> At 30, he understood the problem with Nehru’s economic model. At 59, he got the chance to set it right, and he did. No, he is a typical bureaucrat, and he was ordered by Narasimha Rao to do so.. Manmohan wrongly gets credit for economic reforms !! If you think about it, the real architects of the reforms was probably IMF. But we needed to safeguard our interests too, and PV Narasimha Rao did a good job.