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Journalism of Courage
The contest to become India’s Permanent Representative in the United Nations has taken an interesting turn with M S Puri being appointed as the No 2 in the New York mission. The little known Puri is related to one of the main contenders for the post, the influential Hardeep Puri, who is currently India’s Ambassador to Brazil. The word out is that two cousins cannot possibly occupy the top two posts in India’s UN mission. While there may be no logic to this, the strange “coincidence” seems to have helped the other contender, Meera Shankar, India’s Ambassador to Germany, nose ahead in the betting game underway in South Block. With Ronen Sen agreeing to stay on for another year in Washington, the entire MEA is glued to this close battle for New York between two very influential diplomats.
