Who is the fairest of them all?

Published July 7, 2004

You know international political reporting has reached an all-time low when coverage of election results in the world's largest democracy is reduced to a story about one person. In typical Bollywood movie irony, some 600 million people excercising their democratic right to vote got lost in the soft-focus close-up coverage of Sonia Gandhi, her foreign birth, and the Indian National Congress (INC) party's self-proclaimed...