New Delhi: Mani Shankar Aiyar, a former bureaucrat turned politician, defends his status as a "Macaulay ki aulad" in his memoir, despite the fact that he is also a very proud Indian and recalls his time as a student at Cambridge, where he dubbed himself "a coconut Indian" due to his affinity for coconuts.
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With the release of his memoirs "Memoirs of a Maverick -- The First Fifty Years (1941-1991)" on Monday, the indomitable head of Congress said he was happy to claim he "broke that coconut" over the next half-century to an hour.
His political situation was likened to a cricket match, he said. "I had a good innings, but I'm back in the pavilion now. Aiyar said in an interview, "I am all padded up and ready to bat if I am called in to bat."—Inputs from Agencies