There are other factors in how people evaluate our Presidents, including the passage of time and the writing of history.

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No, the imam replied, explaining that the writing was from another passage.

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One summer afternoon in Delhi, as the father lay in bed, his health in rapid decline, Manglik's sister Kalpana visited his bedside to read him a passage she had penned in a biography she was writing about him.

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At such moments, the reader starts developing a few scruples of his own, one of which is: a passage like this is neither good fiction nor meaningful historical writing.

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