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Manmohan Singh: First 'non-Hindu' PM of India
[The Sunday Leader]
"No power on earth can stop an
idea whose time has come"

- Victor Hugo

By D. B. S. Jeyaraj
Seventy-one year old Gurmukh Singh
Manmohan Singh, the gentleSikh from
Punjab has become the first non-Hindu
Prime Minister of predominantly Hindu
India.
His appointment as Premier of the
world's largest democracy has proven
wrong the saying about nice guys finish
last!