http://kerryhowley.com/2008/01/06/annals-of-msm-respectability/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:28:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://kerryhowley.com/2008/01/06/annals-of-msm-respectability/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Sri Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:33:12 +0000 http://kerryhowley.com/2008/01/06/annals-of-msm-respectability/#comment-39 indira's husband feroze was a freedom fighter himself and was well respected tho obviously wasn't a leader of the stature of mahatma or nehru (& according to some sources was actually adopted by the mahatma so indira wouldn't be stuck with a muslim last name after marriage & thus have problems getting elected tho i doubt that). & the congress party has been dominated by the nehru family so your example citing indira was an excellent case of nepotism trumping competence. and sonia gandhi, but for the hindu right's crude exhibition of xenophobia after losing power in the last elections, would have become (& may yet) india's first foreign born pm. indira’s husband feroze was a freedom fighter himself and was well respected tho obviously wasn’t a leader of the stature of mahatma or nehru (& according to some sources was actually adopted by the mahatma so indira wouldn’t be stuck with a muslim last name after marriage & thus have problems getting elected tho i doubt that). & the congress party has been dominated by the nehru family so your example citing indira was an excellent case of nepotism trumping competence. and sonia gandhi, but for the hindu right’s crude exhibition of xenophobia after losing power in the last elections, would have become (& may yet) india’s first foreign born pm.

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