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India's movie industry specializes in raucous mythological epics; melodramatic histrionics are the mainstay of Italian opera. The two worlds collided in New Delhi this week with the triumphant return to politics of Sonia Gandhi. The Italian-born widow of slain prime minister Rajiv Gandhi reclaimed the reins of her Congress party Tuesday, after rowdy protests, pleading deputations and even an attempted self-immolation by a despairing supporter coaxed her out of a self-imposed week in the political wilderness. Promising that "every drop of my blood belongs to this country," Gandhi galvanized party activists for a head-on battle...
...national debate over religious conversion. ?India?s constitution guarantees the right to propagate one?s religion,? says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. ?The reason Vajpayee is raising the conversion issue is to put the opposition Congress party on the defensive, because its leader, Sonia Gandhi, is an Italian-born Catholic...
Lastly, Bhatia mistakenly considers the entrance of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi an indicator of India's potential multiculturalism. Sonia Gandhi may be a loyal wife and a proper widow, but with no political experience whatsoever and negligible knowledge of India's needs, she has no place in Indian politics, and the Indian people know this: the enthusiasm of Sonia Gandhi's "record-breaking crowds" has not translated into votes in the current elections...
...emergence of Sonia Gandhi as spokesperson of the Congress party has created more profound dilemmas. The widow of Rajiv Gandhi and heir apparent to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty that has ruled India for nearly 40 of the past 50 years, Sonia Gandhi is an Italian-born Roman Catholic who became an Indian Citizen only 12 years ago. Her cross-country campaign for Congress has sparked debates over the question "Who is an Indian...
...Italian-born scholar currently chairs the Italian department at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, but he was a visiting professor at Harvard last year. Although he specializes in Dante and medieval literature, he is also interested in contemporary Italian literature, he said...