India’s Young and Poor Rally to Another Gandhi

Reproduced from The New York Times

 By JIM YARDLEY

Published: June 4, 2010

 AHRAURA, India — Rahul Gandhi’s helicopter descends out of the boiling afternoon sky and a restless, sweat-soaked crowd of 100,000 people suddenly surges to life. Men rush forward in the staggering heat. Teenage boys wave a white bedsheet bearing a faintly cheeky request: We Want to Meet the Prince of India.