Watching Rahul Gandhi attain political manhood in Joura
(WorldNews India)

JOURA, Madhya Pradesh: Faceless small towns surge to life in election season. And the news that `Congress president Rahul Gandhi is coming` has Joura, once famous for its guava orchards, dressed up for the evening. Loudspeakers blare languriya, folk songs of north Madhya Pradesh. And men in dhoti-kurta, their faces reminding you of India Forgotten, walk purposefully towards the town´s shabby mandi complex, the venue of the `parivartan (change) yatra`. The town´s walls and poles are covered with posters of the 48-year-old Congress president but none in his controversial Shiv-bhakt avatar. The posters underline this is Jyotiraditya Scindia´s terrain. After Rahul, his face is the largest on the...