Quattrocchi’s death brings no closure to India’s ‘open secret’

Former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, it was often said, could speak 13 languages – and remain silent in all of them. When one of India’s foremost journalists, who had a convivial relationship with him, entreated him to reveal some of the sensational political dope that he’d accumulated in a long political career, Narasimha Rao is known to have patted his tummy – and said that the “secrets” that he had ingested would die with him.

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