Anand Panyarachun is often described as “the best prime minister Thailand never elected” but he has also been called many names over the years.
An ultimate elite, that is commonplace considering his aristocratic family background, education at Dulwich and later Cambridge University in England and stellar career at the topmost echelon of the Thai society.
But to be branded a communist, then royalist? An apologist for the military coup as well as sympathiser of the youth-led pro-democracy progressive movement?
Who is Anand quintessentially?
In his own words, Anand Panyarachun at the age of 30 or 40 is different from Anand at the age of 60 and 70.
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