A grown-up election. (parliamentary election in India)

From: Newsweek | Date: May 20, 1996| Author: Mazumdar, Sudip | Copyright information

Voters have ousted the ruling Congress Party and Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, but no successor has been elected. It is likely that the Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which captured 185 votes, will lead an unstable government.

MOHANDAS GANDHI CALLED them the harijans--children of God. And as he walked rural India more than half a century ago, Gandhi promised the poorest and most downtrodden of India's poor, the untouchables, that democracy would free them from their...

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