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...21st century, the truth is that the ardent reception the Gandhis are attracting is more about their place in Indian political lore than about Congress's current electoral standing. The Gandhis and Congress won India its independence and gave it leaders such as Mohandas Gandhi (not a relation), Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv. They ruled India for 45 of its first 50 years and laid the foundations for the country's current explosive economic growth. But today, Congress has atrophied into a party bereft of fresh people and ideas, and one that also appears lamentably...
...refused. Said Sonia to an Indian journalist last month?only her second interview ever: "There was my mother-in-law's body, lying by our side. Basically, I felt that most probably Rajiv would end up the same way." She was right. Rajiv won office, becoming the third Nehru-Gandhi Prime Minister, but in May 1991 a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed the 46-year-old over the Indian army's 1987-90 incursion into Sri Lanka. It took six years and an internal party crisis that threatened to split Congress before Sonia, too, bent to that same Gandhian sense...
...themselves on having one of the world's most open democracies, but an unwritten agreement honored by its media ensures that exposing the love lives of the country's leaders remains taboo. So when the purported sexual peccadilloes of the nation's first?and most important?Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, inspire a new novel, you'd expect Indians to be astonished and appalled. Unless, of course, its author is Khushwant Singh. One of India's oldest and most respected writers, Singh also ranks among its smuttiest, and his compatriots are long used to being astonished and appalled by what...
...Singh is enjoying yet another spell under the spotlight, thanks to his new novel Burial at Sea, a fantasia on an alleged sexual escapade by Nehru. The central character, Jai Bhagwan, "is a takeoff of Nehru," says Singh. Bhagwan, like Nehru, is a Brahman from Kashmir, British-educated, brilliant, agnostic, a follower of Mohandas Gandhi, and with big dreams of modernizing his impoverished country. There's one difference: instead of going into politics, Bhagwan decides to transform India by becoming an industrialist to give his country the economy it deserves. The crux of the novel comes when the middle-aged...
...Travancore, were enlightened rulers who promoted the arts and built colleges and irrigation works. But most, as the photos in this book amply testify, spent their time hoarding diamond necklaces of breathtaking size, playing polo and cricket, and nearly shooting India's tigers into extinction. In 1939, Jawaharlal Nehru, India's future Prime Minister, lamented that most of the princely states were "sinks of reaction and incompetence." A mass of desperately poor peasants tilled the land for the benefit of a small group of landowners; at the top of the pyramid, skimming the landowners' profits for his gilt-plated cars...