Srinagar, Sept. 7 -- The history of parliamentary democracy in India has produced orators, administrators and survivors. It has rarely produced a figure who has been all three at once. Ghulam Nabi Azad belongs to that rare category. At a time when politics is driven by polarisation and performance, Azad represents a vanishing school of leadership - patient, institutional and anchored in the belief that politics is ultimately about accommodation, not annihilation.Born in the remote Bhaderwah valley of Doda, Azad's ascent was not scripted by lineage or by the mobilisation of the street. It was crafted through organisation, an old-fashioned virtue that has little currency today. For anyone who has observed New Delhi from within, Azad has lon...