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...Congress Party and its leader, Sonia Gandhi, scored a stunning upset, shutting the mouths of skeptics. But I would not call this a dynastic victory. If you brush back the cobwebs of history, you will see that Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were each elected in his or her own right. They did not achieve office through natural succession. And now Sonia Gandhi has declined the position of Prime Minister, one that those in the opposition would give anything for. Sam Mathews New Delhi...
...independent India. Jawaharlal begat Indira, who ruled for 16 of the 20 years of the post-Nehru era and, through her marriage, became the namesake, though not a relation, of the country's spiritual conscience, Mahatma Gandhi. Indira, known to many in the nation as Amma (mother), begat Rajiv and then Sanjay. When the prodigal younger son and heir apparent died in a plane crash in 1980, his brother Rajiv, almost inevitably, took his place [as next in line for the prime ministership]. 'Indira believed that the House of Nehru was what India needed,' said a Western diplomat...
...victory crowns a remarkable odyssey. Born near Turin, Sonia Maino was 18 when she met Rajiv Gandhi at a Greek restaurant in Cambridge, England. The couple shunned politics, but the 1984 assassination of Rajiv's mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, thrust him to the head of India's leading political dynasty. On the day Indira died, Sonia predicted the same fate for her husband. "I begged him," she later recounted. "I said he too would be killed." A suicide bomber assassinated Rajiv in 1991. Sonia was not eager to take his place, but in 1997, with the Congress Party floundering...
...Sadr prove that people are ready to destroy their homeland for personal gain and power. You cannot deal with hoodlums by resorting only to diplomacy and negotiations. The U.S. has risked its troops, resources and security to tackle evil and greed in Iraq. For that, it should be praised. Rajiv Thind Christchurch, New Zealand...
...Sadr prove that people are ready to destroy their homeland for personal gain and power. You cannot deal with hoodlums by resorting only to diplomacy and negotiations. The U.S. has risked its troops, resources and security to tackle evil and greed in Iraq. For that, it should be praised. RAJIV THIND Christchurch, New Zealand