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...difficulty governing France, as legend has it, derives from its more than 400 types of cheese, pity the Indian politician who has to rule a nation with easily as many deities. That politician, for now, is Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), who will be at the mercy of the fractious and often self-serving regional parties whose votes guarantee his majority. Vajpayee was prime minister for 13 days in 1996, and this time the pundits don?t give him more than a year. Just enough time for Sonia Gandhi to build...
Bhatia calls the BJP's role in the Ayodhya mosque incident a "symbolic repudiation of syncretistic Indian history." One cannot judge 5,000 years of Hindu history by one exception, and this complex event must be understood in context...
...failing to understand the historical reality of Congress rule and the platform of equal treatment for all citizens espoused by the BJP, Bhatia has presented a distorted caricature of the Indian political landscape. AKILESH PALANISAMY '98 March...
...DELHI: With national elections once again failing to produce a clear majority, India looks set for another season of political instability. TIME correspondent Meenakshi Ganguly reports that the Baharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looks set to take 249 seats, while Congress should take 167 and the incumbent United Front 98. Congress and the BJP are furiously courting tiny regional parties in search of a 273-vote majority, with a Congress-United Front coalition looking the more likely winner. That, says Ganguly, would mean further uncertainty: ?The United Front would have the power to bring down a Congress government...
...most Indians, though, Sonia Gandhi's skin-color is a non-issue. Her reception makes a resounding statement about the potential of India to incorporate many ethnicities and religions under the definition of "Indian" without destroying their particularities. It offers evidence of a popular rejection of the BJP's homogenizing ideology. In some ways, Sonia Gandhi is the poster-girl for an Indian nationalism that has religious diversity, cultural hybridity and ethnic interaction at its heart...