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Gandhi Family Feud

As India's most powerful political family roils with rivalries and betrayals, Nehru's great-grandson campaigns from a jail cell. Shoma Chaudhury reports on the drama rocking the subcontient.

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As India's most powerful political family roils with rivalries and betrayals, Nehru's great-grandson campaigns from a jail cell. Shoma Chaudhury reports on the drama rocking the subcontinent.

High family melodrama has always been a big part of Indian cultural life, from its grand literary epics to its teary TV soaps.

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