The missiles and the men in uniform were already out for days on the broad avenues of central New Delhi, practicing for India's Republic Day, the country's annual display of pageantry and weaponry. On Jan. 26, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reviewed the troops in a grand parade and honored India's war dead to mark the official birth of the Indian republic in 1950, when Jawaharlal Nehru was the nation's first Prime Minister. It is on solemn occasions like this one that Singh appears most Nehruvian: serious, intellectual, statesmanlike.
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