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...build A-bombs in 1974, India has voluntarily practiced a form of nuclear "Don't ask, don't tell" for more than two decades. Vajpayee is determined to accomplish what nine previous governments have not dared since India detonated its first nuclear device under the leadership of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. "You needed a bold Prime Minister to take the decision," says Vajpayee aide Pramod Mahajan...
...defining image of Gandhi was "as I saw him marching, staff in hand, to Dandi on the Salt March in 1930. Here was the pilgrim on his quest of Truth, quiet, peaceful, determined and fearless, who would continue that quest and pilgrimage, regardless of consequences." Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi later said, "More than his words, his life was his message." These days, that message is better heeded outside India. Albert Einstein was one of many to praise Gandhi's achievement; Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai Lama and all the world's peace movements have followed in his footsteps...
Franzen displays a striking talent for turning an implausible plot into a convincing omen. Middle-class flight, a shriveled tax base and the usual urban rumpuses encourage St. Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department. Soon Jammu and her imported Indian co-conspirators launch a power grab that includes Orwellian public relations, kidnappings and pet assassinations. Franzen's twisty plot and thriller pace are the sweeteners that mask his caustic commentary on urban decline...
...country they take place in. But a Gandhi wedding in India is even more unwieldy than a Kennedy wedding in the U.S.--after all, nobody rocked up to that island off Georgia and claimed she was already married to John Jr. But when PRIYANKA GANDHI, whose father Rajiv, grandmother Indira and great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru were all Indian Prime Ministers, announced she would marry ROBERT VADRA, an exporter of costume jewelry and "a commoner," as the local press was quick to note, she had to fend off a few extra would-be suitors. A man named Ramakrishna Gowd went...
...student from the mountains who takes a room with her; and Ishvar and Om are two village tailors, uncle and nephew, who long to pull themselves up from their Untouchable status. All four, with their habits of impatience and loss, hopefulness and resignation, find their lives intertwined when Indira Gandhi announces her State of Emergency--her absolute rule...