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Instability is the tired theme that has droned across India's political landscape since the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, and Indian voters are becoming apathetic. Since 1989, not a single prime minister has managed to hold onto parliamentary support for a full five-year term. India's voting participation rates--which were once praised as an indicator of a robust democracy--have dropped by nearly 10 percent...
...matter what 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...
Several world leaders have delivered Jodidi lectures in the past. including the late Rajiv Gandhi, former prime minister of India...
...since Croatia declared independence on June 25. In Sri Lanka an eight-year war between Tamil guerrillas and the Sinhalese majority has left 18,000 dead and countless numbers homeless and destitute. Tamil Tigers have also been held responsible for the assassination last May of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who sent in troops in July 1987 to bolster the ruling Sinhalese. Does this kind of deep-seated hatred and violence await minority Russians in Ukraine, or Ossetians in Georgia or ethnic Ukrainians in Moldavia? Sri Lanka and Yugoslavia offer a not-too-distant mirror of the mayhem that...
Hobbled by internal divisions, lack of direction and a leadership vacuum brought on by the May assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, India's Congress Party took the path of least resistance last week: it tapped an uncontroversial party stalwart to serve as the nation's Prime Minister. P.V. Narasimha Rao, 70, who has a heart condition, became the unanimous choice of party legislators after his main rival, Bombay politician Sharad Pawar, 50, withdrew his candidacy for the nation's top post in the name of party unity...