Our research into India as the world's 'Next Big Thing' slumped a little after we discovered that we really didn't like saffron... and the children refused to watch any more films from Bollywood. "Oh no," they screamed in unison when we suggested one. "They're just so dopey... with all that singing and dancing... ""And all that killing of people... " added their mother .But India was in the news recently. The Italian woman whom everyone thought was running for the nation's top office decided she didn't want it after all. Perhaps she remembered that the last woman who held the post - also named Gandhi - was assassinated in 1984.Her son, Rajiv, was knocked off 10 years later. So, it appears that having the name 'Gandhi' in Indian politics is a ticket to both high office and obvious dangers. Sonia, the latest Gandhi, decided she would turn the job of prime minister over to a Sikh who is known to be the architect of India's economic reforms . This, along with oil at $40 a barrel, brought the Bombay stock market its worst single day in history.
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