My Days in Singapore — Looking East and Loving It

I had spent some seven years in Delhi — unusually long for a diplomat on home posting — when I decided that it was time to seek a foreign posting as Head of Mission. After considering the various options available, I settled on Singapore. I had the good fortune of contributing to the development of our “Look East” policy, and I felt it was time to go east and see how it was working. Besides, my daughter was planning to study for her MBA in Singapore, and I relished the idea of getting to spend a few more years with her. She was noticeably less enthusiastic about a few more years of my breathing down her neck, but in the end I persuaded her that there were more pluses than minuses in the erratic pleasure of my company…