Whom to believe?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 21/09/2014

Two Indian correspondents in the US paint contrasting pictures of President Obama’s nominee for US ambassador to India. K P Nayar of the Telegraph says Richard Rahul Verma is a lightweight who is unlikely to have direct access to the President in case of a crisis, once he is in Delhi. Chidananda Rajghatta’s profile in TOI says he is a consummate Washington insider who has a strong supporter in Hillary Clinton, who could become President in 2016.