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Rajiv Gandhi and Donald Trump

History Lesson for my Young Friends (analogy to Trump's victory is purely co-incidental) In 1984 the voters of India elected Rajiv Gandhi, a charming man with an attractive foreign born trophy wife and no political experience --in a grand landslide. He had a fresh perspective, a strong voter mandate, and very high (perhaps impossible) expectations of himself. He thought of enemies as "they are people too, why don't we make deal with them, instead of fighting them?", a pacifist approach. So he did, with spectacular results. The Punjab Accord brought end to armed separatism and terrorism, the Assam Accord rectified a mistake in India's Governance, and the Sri Lanka Accord hoped to stop a brewing civil war. (You can look-up all these things; they are actually fascinating topics of study). At the end, the decades of decay and corruption was too much for him to change and reform. India was too big and too complex a nation to streamline everything and his inexperience and lack of brilliance showed gapingly. In today's India he is remembered for his Muslim appeasement (Shah Bano case), anti-Sikh riots, and his tragic assassination by a woman terrorist. (Comments Disabled for Now. Sorry!) First Written: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 Last Modified: 2/14/2017 10:44:15 PM

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