Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has a “nervous, unformed quality” about him, like a student eager to impress the teacher but lacking aptitude and passion to “master the subject”, former U.S. President Barack Obama says in his new memoir.
The New York Times reviewed A Promised Land, in which among other issues, the first Black U.S. president has talked about political leaders from around the world.
On Gandhi, Obama says he has “a nervous, unformed quality about him, as if he were a student who’d done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the passion to master the subject,” according to The New York Times review.
Gandhi’s mother and Congress President Sonia Gandhi also appears to find mention in the memoir. The NYT review said in the memoir “we are told of the handsomeness of men like Charlie Crist and Rahm Emanuel, but…
