not male and she doesn't wear a turban. But in almost every other respect it was Italian-in-a-sari, who just happens to be chairperson of the governing UPA coalition, swung by Brussels for a visit larded with pomp and circumstance and characteristically poker-faced Gandhi, the Belgian government pulled out the Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt, no less, altered The head of Brussels university, Professor Vancamp, described Gandhi as India's brightest political star, a leader he said, was promoting "social equity and affordable healthcare..
.a multi-cultural society that cherishes diversity rather than struggling with it..
.pledging gender equality..
.(and with the facts, recalling that it was V.P.
Singh who originally mooted a minimum parliamentary quota for women. But the Indian embassy here pulled out the stops, Last, but not least, Brusell's Centre of Fine Arts or BOZAR, which is laying on India's most ambitious and The Belgian paean to Gandhi, explained Christophe de Neuville, director of the popular 'C'est Belgie' programme on Belgian state television broadcaster channel RTBF, is best understood by a basic, widow and heir to an iconic Indian political dynasty, he added. Add to that the suddenly and surprisingly, to be riveted and very much in love.
Singh, on the other hand, said Neuville, may be a competent Unsurprisingly then, Neuville and much of the Belgian all throughout her visit. Added Jeevan Sekhri, president of Brussels' Indian Association, "Belgium and much of Europe, knows the truth..
.that Mrs Gandhi is India's prime minister in all but Sekhri said that Belgium, a small country, at least a hundred times smaller than India, was entranced by the visit of so "illustrious" a dignitary as Gandhi. Whatever the calculations, Gandhi, demure throughout her three-day visit in pastel saris, very-scuffed black high-heeled courtshoes and an almost pathological distaste of all mediapeople, Belgian or Indian, received the ultimate accolade from the Belgians late on Saturday.
Along Mandela, West German chancellor Willy Brandt and conductor Daniel Barenboim, Gandhi picked up the Order of Leopold, Belgium's second-highest civilian Over and above that, Gandhi made a great leap forward for a famously reluctant and retiring politician, unschooled in the cut and thrust of media glad-handling. She got the footage and the febrile attention and she managed it all without saying a single unscripted word. iconographic Madonna-in-a-sari image may have never burned brighter.
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