Taranjit Singh Sandhu: He should rank among India's most successful envoys who turned the tables and changed the game
Over the years, New Delhi has sent some of its best to Washington to explain India, a country of multitudes and mysteries not intuitively understood in the West. Some excelled, some succeeded more than others, while some got lost between Capitol Hill and the White House. It's a tough assignment - policy volcanos erupt regularly, US bureaucracy is demanding and opinion-makers hard to satisfy. One critical article in Foreign Affairs and it's 'Delhi, we have a problem' of Apollo 13 proportions.