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...pedigreed and ambitious young Hindu politician who shares the surname of the world's foremost apostle of non-violence and who is descended from the Prime Minister who founded modern India as a secular state to serve the country's multiplicity of faiths. Since early March, Varun Gandhi, 29, has been the scandal of India's political class after he called for, among many things, the hands of Muslims to be cut off if they are raised against Hindus, their throats to be slashed, their population to be culled by strict birth control. His words triggered India's stringent National...
...Varun Gandhi is the great-grandson of Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first Prime Minister. His grandmother was Nehru's only child, Indira Gandhi, whose two sons, in turn, left legacies at odds with each other. The older son Rajiv, succeeded his mother as prime minister shortly after she was assassinated in 1984. Rajiv was later murdered in a 1994 terrorist bombing and his Italian-born widow, Sonia, now leads the ruling Congress Party. Rajiv's younger brother, Sanjay, however, had been their mother Indira's favorite and had been viewed as her heir apparent until his sudden death...
...current political firestorm started as Varun was preparing to make his political debut in India's general elections, which are now less than three weeks away. The young man seemed to be consciously raising one of the most controversial episodes in modern India's history: Indira Gandhi's Emergency Rule from 1975-1977, when she - with Sanjay as her chief advisor - ran the country on authoritarian lines, ruling by decree. One of those edicts led to forced sterilization to deal with India's then huge population growth rate. Varun Gandhi allegedly referred to it in his virulent rallies...
...local film. As pleased as they might be about the picture's international éclat, the folks in Mumbai also realize that the first "Bollywood" production to make a major impact at the Academy was written, produced and directed by Englishmen - subjects of the old Raj. In the 1980s, Gandhi, another film about Indians and made by colonialists, took Best Picture. This time the entire cast was Indian or of Indian heritage; none of them had made an English-language feature film before; and three of the Oscar-winners were Indian: superstar composer A.R. Rahman, the renowned lyricist Gulzar...
...heartland in the south, and Rajapaksa is unlikely to seek a truce when triumph is finally within sight. All that remains is to find Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tiger commander who has outlasted five Sri Lankan Presidents and is wanted for ordering the assassination of an Indian Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi...