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Gandhi's political enemies owed much of their success to the pertinacity of V.P. Singh, India's new Prime Minister. The unassuming Singh, 58, served in Indira's governments and as Minister of Finance and Defense under Rajiv, but in 1987 he resigned, claiming that he had been blocked in...
The opposition's strategy paid off handsomely. Although Congress remained the largest party in Parliament, it fell 71 seats shy of a majority. Three days after the third and final day of polling, Gandhi, looking fresh-faced and unperturbed, appeared on television to tell the nation, "The people have given...
Singh owns the place now, and one is unsure which jarring and inapposite piece of his biography best begins to explain him: That he is a former SDS organizer who is building a Ritz-Carlton hotel? Or that he is a developer whose fondest wish is to run away with...
"This is exciting," he tells his architect, surveying the half-finished plaza he has conceived as the social center of the new community he is building. "Have you done the guardhouse? Let's go see the guardhouse." Singh is minutely attentive to aesthetics, even with interest costs and overhead running...
When he is done with the $250 million project in 1992, Singh intends the Truman Annex to be an environmentally sound, architecturally pure, socially engineered complex of 700 homes, condominiums, shops and hotel rooms. His design guidelines, reflecting the conch-house architecture of historical Key West, run to 27 dogmatic...