Mush blitzkrieg hits NY, Manmohan lies low

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Mush next only to Bush</span><br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="27.0%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/858151.cms" alt="/photo/858151.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Playing to the gallery:</span><span style="" font-size:=""> Musharraf speaks at a dinner hosted by the United States Chamber of Commerce in New York on Monday.(AP photo)</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">Next only to President Bush''s, Pakistan''s military leader Pervez Musharraf appears to have the maximum security for leaders attending the UN General Assembly meeting in New York.<br /><br />Musharraf arrived here on Sunday and was rushed from the JFK Airport to the Roosevelt Hotel in less than half an hour with all traffic en route brought to a standstill.<br /><br />The swaggering supremo then bustled into his favourite pastime – media interviews – with an appearance on ABC''s prime time World News with Peter Jennings.<br /><br />The celebrated anchor opened the interview with a question about Musharraf''s security, remarking that in his many interviews with heads of state and heads of government over the years, he had "never seen a man come to the ABC News headquarters with so much security".<br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></span><br /><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Next Page</span><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">- </span><a href="/articleshow/msid-858141,curpg-2.cms" style="" font-face:arialfont-size:10ptfont-weight:boldcolor:0066cc="">Pervez bytes vs Man Rose show</a><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">- </span><a href="/articleshow/msid-858141,curpg-3.cms" style="" font-face:arialfont-size:10ptfont-weight:boldcolor:0066cc="">No currying Columbia favours</a><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""> </span><br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">Pervez bytes vs Man Rose show</span><br /><br />Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, meantime, is scheduled to go on the Charlie Rose Show on Tuesday soon after his meeting with President Bush.<br /><br />The show will be taped during the day and telecast in the night on PBS or Public Broadcasting Service. The two media gigs in some way illustrates the difference between Pakistani and Indian media approach. <br /><br />ABC is a prime time news program watched by millions of American homes; it is more populist. PBS'' Charlie Rose show is a more thoughtful, deliberate show watched by a smaller but more elite audience. <br /><br />ABC World News is sound-bytey – Musharraf''s interview lasted only a few minutes. Singh will get a full hour with Charlie Rose, whose other Indian guests in recent months include the likes of Arundhati Roy and Mira Nair. <br /><br /><a href="/articleshow/msid-858141,curpg-3.cms" style="" font-face:arialfont-size:10ptfont-weight:boldcolor:0066cc="">No currying Columbia favours</a><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""> </span><br /><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section3"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-weight:="" bold="">No currying Columbia favours </span><br /></div> <div align="right" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="right" border="1" width="27.0%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal"><img src="/photo/858155.cms" alt="/photo/858155.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" white=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Private PM: </span><span style="" font-size:="">Manmohan Singh and his wife on their arrival in New York on Monday. (AP photo)</span></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">Singh has a fairly busy program during his six-day stay in New York, but his last day here – Saturday – is marked "private". He is going to be spending his time with his near and extended US-based family.<br /><br />His daughter Amrit teaches at New York''s Columbia University. The story goes that when she was seeking admission to Columbia''s post-graduate program, our taciturn prime minister did not even alert his good friend of many decades, economist, free trade guru, and Columbia faculty veteran Jagdish Bhagwati, to her application. He preferred she get admission on her own merit – and she did. <br /><span style="" font-weight:="" bold=""><script language="javascript">doweshowbellyad=0; </script></span><br /></div> </div>