‘Spent childhood years listening to Ramayana and Mahabharata’: Barack Obama
In “A Promised Land”, Obama gives an account of his journey from the 2008 election campaign to the end of his first term with the daring Abbottabad (Pakistan) raid that killed al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
Former US President Barack Obama said that he has always held a special place for India due to his childhood years spent in Indonesia listening to the epic Hindu tales of the Ramayana and the Mahābhārata.
“Possibly it was its (India’s) sheer size, with one-6th of the total populace, an expected 2,000 unmistakable ethnic gatherings, and in excess of 700 dialects spoken,” Obama composes on his interest with India in his most recent book ‘A Promised Land’.
Obama says he had never been to India his Presidential visit in 2010, yet the nation had “consistently held an extraordinary spot in my creative mind”.
“Perhaps it was on the grounds that I’d spent a piece of my youth in Indonesia tuning in to the epic Hindu stories of the Ramayana and the Mahābhārata, or in view of my advantage in Eastern religions, or in light of a gathering of Pakistani and Indian school companions who’d instructed me to cook dahl and keema and turned me on to Bollywood motion pictures,” Obama composes.
In “A Promised Land”, Obama gives a record of his excursion from the 2008 political race to the furthest limit of his initial term with the trying Abbottabad (Pakistan) strike that executed al-Qaeda boss Osama receptacle Laden. “A Promised Land” is the first of two arranged volumes. The initial segment hit book shops around the world on Tuesday.
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