BANGKOK: We are told as journalists that when writing obituaries and remembrances to avoid hagiographic pros or being too outwardly effusive in order to avoid misrepresenting our subject with rose-tinted retrospectives.
Easy to do in most cases but with a select few, each sentence becomes a battle against extravagance. Surin Pitsuwan is one of those select few.
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