The man who could be king

November 21, 2011 15:51

On the Wall Street Journal, Swapan Dasgupta's opinion piece: In democracies, dynastic succession should be a deviation from the norm.

In India, many political parties are anyway led by sons and daughters of former bosses, but nowhere is this more prevalent than in the ruling Congress party, which the Gandhi-Nehru family has dominated since independence.

Another succession is now in the offing, assuming of course that Indians keep tolerating this deviation.

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