Tag: rahul gandhi (last 300)
(Abdusalaam) blogger (sort of) comes around on the gandhi scion.
(HT) Once politics becomes a family business, peasants choose between various feudal aristocrats. One of the great ironies of Indian politics is that a dynast, Rahul Gandhi, is doing more than anyone else to democratize the Congress. (Vir Sanghvi column)
(TO Globe) two countries on opposite ends of the Adam’s bridge take divergent paths last veek. Fascinating factoid on Rajeev Gandhi’s meeting with Prabhakaran and the role Rahul G played in it.
(Rediff) Q: Does he have a temper? A: I have not seen his temper at all. Q: Is he a connoisseur of fine wines? A: No, no. He doesn’t drink wine at all. No wine, no beer, nothing. He’s a teetotaller. (Also: nice pics, including of Priyanka). [
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(WSJ) Manmohan Singh invited Rahul Gandhi to join the cabinet with little basis other than surname.
(Wiki) Rahul Gandhi’s education is almost as checkered as Sarah Palin’s. Got into Delhi U on pistol shooting, not grades. Dropped out, got a degree from small Fla. college, bought way into Cambridge.
(WSJ) Congress’ election victory without leftists means more financial reform. Manmohan Singh could step aside early for Rahul Gandhi [sickening].
(Google) Rahul Gandhi never completed Harvard, finished up at a small Fla. college and started an outsourcing company. One night he sneaked away from his escorts to share a meal with a group of farmers in Naxalite land. His bubble was frantic.
(WaPo) Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Discover of India’ tour: ‘He needs to be a brand. He walks around the villages, talks to the poorest, eats with them. He is creating a visual sense of leadership.’ Why it’s almost as if politics are more about image than substance.
(Economist) Sonia Gandhi’s done all right in her decade in politics, but why force Rahul, yet another Gandhi? The kindest view is that other Indian parties are just as nepotistic.