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...this talk of my going downhill," insisted India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi last week, "is just so much political nonsense." Translation: she is going downhill all right, but she is fighting back. Her Congress (I) Party (the "I" is, of course, for Indira) has not won a majority in any of the eight state elections it has fought since Mrs. Gandhi's return to power in 1980. It fared particularly badly last month in the southern states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, which had supported the Congress Party since India became independent in 1947. More elections were...
...where voters are angry about the wave of nearly 4 million refugees who have entered that state illegally from Bangladesh in the past decade. What makes the Assamese especially bitter is that the refugees, who are grateful to have been given sanctuary in India and thus are overwhelmingly pro-Gandhi, are being allowed by the government to vote in next week's elections. As a result, all the opposition parties in Assam, including the Marxists, are boycotting the elections, thereby assuring a Congress Party victory. To halt a surge of election-related violence, the New Delhi government has sent...
Trying to strengthen her government, Mrs. Gandhi two weeks ago asked all 60 members of her Council of Ministers to submit resignations. She fired only seven ministers and named a dozen new ones, prompting criticism that she lacked the nerve to undertake a wholesale housecleaning. Luckily for Mrs. Gandhi, the opposition parties are at least as disorganized as her Congress Party; no candidate has emerged as a serious rival for 1985, and her personal popularity remains high...
...historical film, Gandhi provides a compelling recapitulation of the Indian movement for independence and Gandhi's extraordinary role in it. With its well-defined moral lines and its success in presenting an individual whose godliness makes him difficult to imagine, it is a winning movie well worth the four hours of sitting (though, it should be noted, not worth the lethal headache that the terrific technological advances of the Sack Charles Dolby stereo system will almost assuredly give...
...movie that lacks much of the give and take between characters and the faulty human personalities which normally pull a person into a good film. Orwell, writing about Gandhi after he was murdered, noted. "The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love...