'Soft-Spoken, Mild-Mannered Technocrat': How Global Media Reported Manmohan Singh's Death
ABP NewsFormer Prime Minister Manmohan Singh breathed his last at the age of 92 on Thursday night. Country's First Sikh PM, Introduced Free Market Reform: NYT The US-based New York Times described Manmohan Singh as a "soft-spoken" and "cerebral" PM. It also noted Singh's "trademark powder-blue turban" adding that he was the first Indian PM from the minority Sikh community. The British daily described Singh as the "architect of the big-bang economic reforms" who "served a rare full two terms as prime minister in India’s tumultuous politics." Mild-Mannered Technocrat: Al Jazeera Doha-based television network termed Singh a "mild-mannered technocrat" who became India's longest serving prime minister and "earned a reputation as a man of great personal integrity."