Click to play videoCambridge: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh became one of the few people to have received doctorate degrees from Oxford and Cambridge University.
Old friendships were rekindled and memories stirred as Manmohan Singh entered the senate hall of his old alma mater Cambridge University.
There from Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, he received an honorary doctorate in law. He was last here in 1957 at St Johns College. But the Prime Minister's message to his distinguished audience was couched in the harsh realities of today.
He warned that terrorism threatened all open democratic societies and the war against poverty and want could not be fought unless terrorism was defeated. He also called for a more equitable world order.
Manmohan Singh said: "My appeal is that developed countries should not allow short-term national interests to prevail at the cost of promoting freer trade and combating poverty. The prosperity of so many cannot be sacrificed for protecting the interests of so few. The price of myopia is heavy on the exchequers of the developed world. The issue also has profound moral dimension. “
He spoke of his journey form Punjab university is a secure university to be put it as a scholarship student and parallels with the journey of another man this time form Allahabad from an elite institution hero-trinity.
He was of course talking about Pandit Nehru India's first prime minister whose grandson Rajeev later came trinity 50 years ago.
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