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rewrite this content and keep HTML tags As we were lighting and setting up our 2-camera unit for the interview, Dr. Singh, after welcoming us with a warm smile, began pacing up and down his cavernous office. His impatience was evident. Then suddenly he started whistling. Yes, walking up and down the room, loud steps, loud whistles, up and down, up and down. I winked at our cameraman for recording that unusual scene. And he did. Dr. Singh was not playing any popular tune, at least I could not identify it. Just a loud, accompanying whistle to accompany his brisk…

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rewrite this content and keep HTML tags The architect of India’s economic reforms, the first Prime Minister from a minority community, the first Prime Minister from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family to serve two full terms, a scholar, economist, technocrat… Dr. Manmohan Singh was remembered for these and many more. Will be remembered for such deeds, achievements and qualities.The former Prime Minister breathed his last in Delhi on Thursday 26 December. He was 92 years old. He is survived by his wife Gursharan Kaur and three daughters.The credit for India’s survival and recovery from economic collapse in the 1990s largely goes…

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