
Now that the Damocles’ sword of disqualification, rather than the ‘‘inner voice’’ of May 2004, has forced Sonia Gandhi to make yet another ‘‘sacrifice’’, I cannot help recall Karl Marx of my college days. ‘‘History repeats itself,’’ Marx said, ‘‘first as tragedy, second time as farce.’’ It may not have been a tragedy in 2004, but farce it certainly is in 2006.
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