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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (8304)	10/12/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Mohan: Excellent article: This excerpt is interesting. I mean, projecting Priyanka Vadra as a future prime minister? Why on God's earth? Personally, all I saw was a slender, light-skinned, nubile young woman of no particular accomplishment or leadership qualities whatsoever. Perhaps light skin and nubileness is enough for the -- I imagine -- panting male hacks. If the Congress must have a Nehru dynasty person to lead it, why not Maneka Gandhi? At least she has some accomplishments of her own -- championing the environment, animal rights, etc. She too has everything Sonia Gandhi has: Nehru family widow, daughter-in-law of Indira. And she has been in Parliament and a minister, that too as an Independent. I do hope this is the end of the heavily over-rated Nehru dynasty. The Great White Hope, Sonia Gandhi, has certainly been a major disappointment: she, personally, has been trounced, as this election was a personal referendum on her vote-gathering capability. I think the Nehru dynasty should now leave it to others to 'sacrifice' for the country.

To: Mohan Marette who wrote (8304)	10/13/1999
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 12475

Pretty much in line with what I have stated before -- most of the southern and the western states of India and parts of the north-west have little to gain by carrying the other parts of the country along. It's not that they are wonderful by any decent standards, but it's just that they are relatively less of a hellhole when compared to the heartland and much of the east. It will be nothing short of astonishing if, a generation later, they are all still in the same boat. And parts of the north and almost all of the north-east already want to be on their own anyway...