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Dads, Kishore Mahbubani and A Boy Named Sue
Some fathers can appear aloof and uncommunicative. Don’t let that fool you.
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Mr Kishore Mahbubani’s narration reveals he himself was firmly on his mother’s side, and he credits his late mother for his own in-built resilience.
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Perhaps the most touching part of Kishore Mahbubani’s memoirs, Living The Asian Century, is when he talks of meeting the father he seems so much to resent, while on a home trip between postings to Washington and New York.
“I saw how proud my father was when I came home for a visit; he took out his wallet and showed me all the press clippings about my posting that he had neatly cut and saved,” Mr Mahbubani writes.
