'A little old man who has renounced personal possessions, walking with bare feet on the cold earth in search of a great human ideal'.
With a staff in one hand and the other on his granddaughter's shoulder, the old man briskly takes the lead as the sun breaks over the horizon.
'Both have a very nationalistic view of foreign policy.' 'They think they are shrewd and clever diplomats.'
S Jaishankar turned out to be a chip of the old block and that too, in modern parlance, a fully loaded chip. The father laid down the precepts of Indian strategy and diplomacy and the son put them into practice. T P Sreenivasan on India's new foreign secretary.
