Manmohan Singh - World's Best 'Leader of the Leaders'

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh topped the Newsweek Magazine’s list of 10 world leaders who won respect and described as ‘the leader other leaders love.’ However, India figured 78 in the list of 100 best countries in the world with a score of 55.70 out of 100. This rank was based on five categories of national well-being, education, health, quality of life, economic competitiveness, and political environment.
 
This 77 year economist turned politician played a key role in India's emergence as one of the rising powers of the 21st century. He engineered the transition of India from stagnant socialism to a spectacular takeoff in the global economy.

Still his global luminaries praise him for being modest, humble, and incorruptible. The soft spoken Singh is the model of what a political leader should be. Besides Manmohan Singh, British Premier David Cameron, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz al-Saud also figured in the list.

Besides, India is described as the 'Best Place to Fly a Kite.'