When downsizing hostility, face-to-face is so much more helpful than eyeball-to-eyeball, says Indian columnist Bachi Karkaria as she “breaches the lakshamana rekha” at Wagah and enters Lahore for a media women’s conference.
How could the once-obscure girl from Orbassano have become such a repository of real power? Bachi Karkaria takes a close look at Sonia Gandhi, now into her 10th year as Congress president.