The writer is a senior journalist based in Delhi.
Vacation stories
A reporter remembers Rajiv Gandhi in Lakshadweep, how he tried to balance Congress old guard and the ‘wiz kids’.
MAKHAN Lal Fotedar was the one who tipped me of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s new year holiday in Lakshadweep. The entire political class was aghast when The Indian Express broke the story about his previous week-long revelry in Andamans in 1987. In the Gandhian tradition, a holiday for a politician was a sin. Swatantra Party leader Piloo Modi was derided for his elitism and lavish lifestyle. Indira Gandhi was a 24/7 prime minister. It was such grounding that made it a cultural shock for the Congress traditionalists.
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