Gambhir’s crisp speech—carefully drafted and vetted by senior Indian diplomats —rebutted Sharif point by point though she took much less than her allotted seven minutes. According to a colleague in New Delhi: “The way the message is delivered is as important as the content of the speech.”And that is something that Gambhir won kudos for. A Mathematics graduate from Delhi University’s Hindu College, Gambhir joined the Indian Foreign Service in 2005. After a posting in the Indian mission in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Gambhir returned home to be assigned to the Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran desk, considered one of the key “hot potato” divisions in the Indian foreign ministry. And it worked well,” a senior Indian foreign ministry official who didn’t want to be named said.

Source: Mint September 23, 2016 13:07 UTC