......As in the Ramayana, it reflected a belief in an ideal cast of characters – the ideal father, the ideal brother, the ideal wife (all subsumed, in contemporary life, into the ideal citizen), the ideal king and the ideal servant (in contemporary life, ideal elected representatives and ideal bureaucrats). While the word “ideal” is curiously old-fashioned and, indeed, sometimes seems almost laughable in current usage, it actually reflects the only true reality of man. For many years of my life (the last few that I spent in New York), I was known as Ideal Boy, so I know what it means. And now, we have another Ideal Boy at the head of the RBI.........................
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