Wages of Wavering

Wages of Wavering
A WEEK of inept politicking has cost Indira Gandhi heavily in terms of popular esteem and political authority. For months past, the high-powered publicity apparatus that works for her had made even the hard-headed reporters believe that she had come out of her initial phase of ditherings and waverings, that in decision-making as well as public assertions, a new streak of determination had come. Those who were more charitable or more beholden to the seat of power even went so far as to suggest that where Nehru would have hesitated, his daughter could rush in boldly.