The Singaporean elite is faced with an unusual dilemma: a potential leader who surpasses all his peers in terms of modern administrative and political skills. In Singapore, where raw brain-power and book learning have long trumped emotional intelligence, Tharman has the intuition and rhetoric to win over and persuade his countrymen like no one else. One has to ask if Singaporeans are truly being served by this failure of imagination on the part of their establishment?

Read Here – South China Morning Post