With grace that has been starkly missing in public life in recent years, there has been an outpouring of grief and remembrance at Manmohan Singh’s death. It is the rarest of politicians that manage to make the final exit as the ‘good guy’ after five decades in public life. This immediately brings to mind George Orwell’s famous quote about Mahatma Gandhi: “Regarded simply as a politician, and compared with other leading political figures, how clean a smell he managed to leave behind!”
