Antonio, God forbid that India gets a leader in the mold of the examples you have cited below, every one of them a brutal totalitarian dictator. Is that what India needs? > > --- Antonio Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There are historical precedents of this kind of > political elevation. > > Alexander the Great ( 356 - 323 BC ) , the son of > Macedonian king > Philip who became the ruler of Greece and extended > her boundaries up > to the river Indus of the Indian sub-continent. > > Kublai Khan ( 1729 -1796 ), the grandson of Mongol > Genghis Khan became > Emperor of a powerful and prosperous China. > > Catherine the Great ( 1729 - 1776 ) a daughter of > a minor German > princeling married the Grand Duke Peter of Russia. > After the > premature death of her husband,she became Tsarina, > an effective > ruler of Russia and extended her boundaries as > they exist today. > > Napoleon Bonaparte (1768 - 1821 ) was an Italian > speaking military > officer in the French army from the island of > Corsica who became the > greatest emperor France has ever had. > > Kemal Ataturk (1881 - 1938 ) the father of modern > Turkey was born in > Salonika Greece. > > Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945 ) was born to an Austrian > custom official > and had continental Europe at his feet by 1943 i.e. > befor the Battle > of Stalingrad. > > Stalin ( 1879 - 1953 himself was not an ethnic > Russian. He was the > son of a Georgian ( a Transcaucasian Republic just > north of Turkey ) > cobbler who aspired to be a Christian priest but was > expelled from the > seminary for indulging in socialist propaganda. > Under his tutelage, > Soviet Union became one of the only two superpowers > of the world. > > Has the time come for India to have such a leader ? > Only the future will tell. > > But at this point in time , this much can be said > that in the sixties > when the grandson of Jawahar s/o Motilal came to > Britain for higher > studies, he met a lovely Italian lass from Torino by > the name of Miss > Antonia Maino. He fell in love with her, married > her according to the > Indian traditions and her name was change to Sonia. > > antonio > >