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From inside the Gandhi SUV, there's little sign of looming disaster. Sonia, 57, is sitting up front; her children Rahul, 33, and Priyanka, 32, are behind, and all three are beaming out at a crush of villagers who envelop the silver jeep and whose faces and skinny bodies are sliding across its windows like a human car wash. Sonia opens her door to stand on the sill, and the crowd shrieks and surges forward, a hundred arms straining for a supplicatory touch of her feet. Priyanka waves, and a tight knot of some 100 hands waves back. Rahul opens...
...distinguished but inactive has-beens who are blind to the party's present ignominies. Nowadays, the party's sole identifiable belief?beyond its vaguely left-of-center economics?seems to be an awed deference to the Gandhis. The only election slogan Congress supporters ever use is: "Sonia Gandhi! Rahul Gandhi! Priyanka Gandhi!" As one Indian correspondent derisively puts it: "Today's Congress is a personality cult. Only with no personality, and a dying cult...
...anything save Congress? Rahul Gandhi, a dashing figure who only entered politics in January, hints at plans for an ambitious party makeover, the way Tony Blair reformed Labour in Britain. But for now Congress is mainly counting on the dissatisfaction of those left behind by India's economic boom?a huge demographic in a country with an estimated 370 million people living on $1 or less a day?and the sentimental adoration of the masses. While Sonia Gandhi and her children are being mobbed in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Vajpayee and his deputy Lal Krishna Advani are holding a rally...
...This isn’t the end,” said Rahul Saksena, 21, a rising senior from Darien, Conn., and one of 100 members of Students Supporting Affirmative Action. “We’re going to continue to work. Affirmative action is just one step in the great fight for justice...
...subtle verve and elegant execution of a Martin Bell story satisfies the learned reader as much as the nuances of Nabokov. Dave De Remer’s mathematical-like precision and dedication to perfection in writing is reminiscent of the intricately insane, yet precise rhythms of Stravinsky. A Rahul Rohatgi column exudes the playful and entertaining bravado of Figaro’s boastful aria in Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville...