It is only under Sonia Gandhi that the party has again become the standard-bearer for Ashokan secularism. She will go down in history as the finest Congress leader along with Nehru. The one asset that Sonia Gandhi built for her dynasty from the time she became its head was an image of reticence and service. The best thing she has done for India is to hand Manmohan charge of policy. Few leaders around the world have control over the details of policy as Manmohan Singh does. Few have his intellectual capacity to understand events and what they portend. Under Manmohan Singh, terrorism has decreased in India and Indians have become safer. The numbers indicate that the Congress government is doing something spectacularly right, and it was actually the BJP that was soft on terror. There are many humiliations, and often defeats. But Singh persists. This is the source of his greatness, his heroism.