Tragic as the death of Benazir Bhutto is the aftermath is decidedly weird. In her will she has left the leadership of Pakistan Peoples Party to her nineteen year old son who is still studying at Oxford. This means that should the PPP win the elections in February he could become the Prime Minister of Pakistan. The amazing thing is that no one has found it unaccepatable that the leadership of a political party has been officially passed down from mother to son like some piece of land or a favourite crockery set. No Pakistani journalist or foreign one has said anything about this blatant feudalism which should cause outrage in this day and age. You watch BBC or CNN and every Pakistani from Musharraf to the friendly neighbourhood jehadi blabbers on about democracy and yet not a single person has questioned the automatic adoption of Bilal, or whatever his name is, as leader of PPP. The good thing is that the Pakis are open about their craven chamchagiri whereas in India they lie their heads off. Thus sons, daughters, sons in law, mistresses have all successfully laid claim to leaderships of political parties and occupied posts of Chief or Prime Minister. The Nehru- Gandhi clan still controls the power in Delhi. Mrs. Sonia Gandhi has formed an alliance with the Communists whose record at treachery is well established, installed a do nothing Prime Minister, a lawyer as Finance Minister who thinks it is his mission to go on increasing taxes infinitely to suck the blood out of all Indians and a President against whom there are serious allegations of fraud. Of course for sheer chutzpa no one can beat our Hon. Railway Minister, Mr. Lalu Prasad, who installed his illiterate, unelected wife as Chief Minister of Bihar when he was arrested for corruption. Politicians of other parties do not object because they see the great Indian public as chattels to be passed on as cattle.