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...wildlife is a depressing tale of pollution, encroachment and poaching. But in the country's largest metropolis, nature is biting back. A 55-year-old beggar and a teenager were dragged off last week while they slept and were killed by leopards in Bombay's 283-hectare Sanjay Gandhi National Park, capping a deadly June in which 11 people were eaten by the predators...
...Your report on the Congress Party and Sonia Gandhi's victory presented one of the best analyses yet of Indian politics. But I want to make it clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party is not a rightist Hindu party. In the past it had links to Hindu nationalist outfits, but under the constraints of governing coalitions, it has taken a more secular stance. The 2002 Gujarat riots, in which 2,000 Muslims were killed, were indeed a blot, but India remains a tolerant country with a majority of its people supporting secular viewpoints. It has a Muslim President...
...Congress Party and its leader, Sonia Gandhi, scored a stunning upset, shutting the mouths of skeptics. But I would not call this a dynastic victory. If you brush back the cobwebs of history, you will see that Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were each elected in his or her own right. They did not achieve office through natural succession. And now Sonia Gandhi has declined the position of Prime Minister, one that those in the opposition would give anything for. Sam Mathews New Delhi...
...Family Sonia Gandhi and her son, Rahul, are only the latest activists in the dynasty that has dominated the politics of India for more than 50 years [ASIA, May 24]. In 1984, after Indira Gandhi's assassination, Pico Iyer described the family's monarchical succession...
...What's in a name? Magic, it seems, if the name is Gandhi or Nehru, and the place is India ... The House of Nehru has reigned over independent India in one almost unbroken dynastic line, passing the scepter down from one generation to the next. By now the system of one-family rule has become so firmly entrenched that the newsmagazine India Today calls India 'a democratic monarchy' ... Jawaharlal [Nehru] served for 17 years as the first Prime Minister of independent India. Jawaharlal begat Indira, who ruled for 16 of the 20 years of the post-Nehru era and, through...