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05/26/2013

Meeting the Gandhis...

 india,politics,gandhi,nehru,dynasty,indira gandhi,sonia gandhi,rajiv gandhi,rahul gandhi,sanjay gandhi,the red saree,javier moro,congress,bjp,elections,prime ministerIf there is one topic that I am not interested in, it’s politics... So Indian politics I let you imagine…

And all in a sudden, while I think I am going to read about a love story, I find myself engulfed in The Red Saree, a book by by Javier Moro! 

I panicked a bit at the beginning, as the novel begins on very soapy tone with the love story of Rajiv and Sonia Gandhi. 

 

But rather quickly it engages on the political history of India since Independence through the private and political life of its main characters (namely the Nehru-Gandhi family). 

 

Basically, it all started with Nehru, Member of the Congress Party and first Prime Minister of independent India and thus until 1964, date of his death (of a heart attack). 

 

Then his daughter...

 

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