The 'foreign hand' is back. But it's been rebranded as a 'toolkit'
Illustration: Getty Images/ iStock The old bugaboo of international forces out to derail the government still needed to be trotted out, but clearly Indira Gandhi’s old and trusty foreign hand needed a 21st-century makeover In the Indira Gandhi days there were always two hands. One, her party’s electoral symbol, the other, the “foreign hand”. And the party hand always knew what the other was up to. The foreign hand practically became a member of the Indian extended family much like the troublemaking sister-in-law who’s part of every TV soap opera parivaar. While the wicked on-sc...
Source: thehindu.com
