The Leader in a Trap

'The Leader' in a Trap Romesh Thaper IF N T Rama Rao is an accomplished actor, Indira Gandhi is no less. Since the Congress(I) debacle in the South, she is playing it cool in public, so cool in fact that she told a visitor that she was surprised that they did as well Small wonder, then, that she is trying to explain away the defeat as something created by hostile publicity. Not a single flunkey is around to tell het that eighty per cent of the voters don't touch a newspaper, that if anything the untruths of her Akashvani and Doordarshan probably created a loathing for the Congress(I) loafers.