Word: gandhis
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...also wrestling with problems inherited from his predecessors, including separatist movements in Punjab, Assam, and Jammu and Kashmir that have claimed 4,000 lives this year. These rebellions are a reaction to the increasing centralization of power in New Delhi, particularly during the tenures of the late Indira Gandhi and her son, Rajiv, who was ousted as Prime Minister last November...
...certain extent, the turmoil that now threatens Indian democracy may be a consequence of its very success. During the 1980s the Indian economy grew at an unprecedented rate of more than 5% a year, largely owing to Rajiv Gandhi's liberalization policies. According to Swaminathan Aiyar, a leading economic analyst with the New Delhi-based Times of India, that growth may have lifted as many as 150 million Indians above the poverty line, reducing from 48% to 29% the portion of the population that is officially poor...
...20th century, the most successful female dynast has been Indira Gandhi of India, daughter of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Over a span of 16 years, Gandhi proved herself the most formidable Prime Minister India has ever had, masterly melding the charisma of her family with the subcontinent's rich religious images of motherhood and successfully passing her office to her son Rajiv. Six years after her assassination, she is still idolized. Says Sudhir Kakar, an Indian psychoanalyst: "She is looked upon as the sacrificing mother of the joint family." Born to privilege, Gandhi believed she was born to rule...
Though they have yet to match Gandhi's political acumen, Aquino, Chamorro and Bhutto share with the late Indian Prime Minister the same aristocratic sense of destiny. No other politicians -- certainly no men -- were capable of leading their countries at the time of their ascendancy. Aquino and Chamorro united quarrelsome opposition groups. Only Bhutto had the charisma to overcome the puritanical appeal of Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's Islamic regime. But winning was the easy part. Ruling has proved problematic...
...plan by committing suicide, five by self-immolation, while 70 others attempted to set themselves on fire. At the same time, students all over the north, mostly from the upper castes, battled police in India's worst outbreak of violence since the 1984 assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...