But with Arab women moving into the vanguard of popular uprisings, nursing injured male protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and heroically performing namaz in resistance before a hail of bullets from the Yemeni dictator’s henchmen in Taiz, the choice of this woman ambassador, Deepa Gopalan Wadhwa, for Qatar has been vindicated as one of the more perceptive decisions that India has made in its dealings with the now turbulent Gulf region.
It ranks with the stellar performance of M. Manimekalai, another woman ambassador, during the evacuation of Indians and the ongoing conflict in Libya, making allowances for Muammar Gaddafi’s incorporation of women, including his attractive female bodyguards and voluptuous blonde Ukrainian nurses, into his country’s public persona.
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