Before he was labelled “Underachiever” or “Poodle,” Manmohan Singh also had the mortification of being loosely referred to as “Joker”. And by none less than the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. CG Somiah, a former Union Home Secretary who retired as the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, has this interesting anecdote about Manmohan Singh and Rajiv Gandhi in his autobiography The Honest Always Stand Alone.