Deve Gowda, was dirisively known around the globe as India's 'barefoot' PM, and he gloried in his notoriety, short-lived though it was - he wanted the world to see the true face of India, the bare-footed village simpleton in his dhoti, with his cows and bullock-cart - what could be more 'Indian' than that? Were it not for the IT revolution, to the world, India would still be this totally backward land of peasants. And now this is the same guy who's king-maker in K'taka, though pretending not so convincingly, to be hands-off. Wouldn't be too surprised, being the opportunist that he is, if he does another of his about face and gives Cong the embrace.
