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Indians Mock Their Corrupt Politicians Relentlessly, But They Regard Their Honest Politicians With Silent Suspicion. The First Thing They Do When They Hear Of A Supposedly 'clean' Politician Is To Grin. It Is A Cliche That Honest Politicians In India Tend To Have Dishonest Sons, Who Collect Money From People Seeking An Audience With Dad.

In My Family, As In Most Middle-class Indian Families I Knew When I Was Growing Up, Science And Mathematics Were Held In Awe.

India's Great Economic Boom, The Arrival Of The Internet And Outsourcing, Have Broken The Wall Between Provincial India And The World.

Indira Gandhi Had Been This Very Powerful, Dominating, Ambiguous Mother Figure. Ambiguous Because She Was Tyrannical, She Had Imposed...she Had Suspended Indian Democracy For A Few Years But She Also Was The Woman Who Had Defeated Pakistan In War At A Time When Most Male Politicians In India Had Secretly Feared Fighting That War, So That Here In India Even Today Indira Gandhi Is Called By Indian Nationalists The Only Man Ever To Have Governed India.

Like Most People Who Live In India, I Complain About Corruption, But Know That I Can Live With Corrupt Men. It Is The Honest Ones I Secretly Worry About.