what?????

i clicked through to an article about india electing its first female president, only to find bewilderment. and not because i had run across another country, this one with among the most distinguished pasts in gender discrimination, to elect a woman to the top political position before the united states.

While India has had several women in positions of power — most notably Gandhi and her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi, who was elected to the more powerful position of prime minister in 1966 — women still face rampant discrimination.

uhh, in my recollection gandhi was male. did gavin rabinowitz not know ben kingsley played him in the film?

now i am no expert in the history of india, so i remain open to the notion that there could have been a prominent women -- not named indira -- who shared mahatma gandhi's namesake. but if this is the case, the writer absolutely needs to identify who that is. for regardless of her accomplishments and accolades, "she" does not rank as top dog among those sharing her surname. not within india, the world, and likely her immediate family.

granted, this is likely a typo that was intended to say gandhi's mother-in-law indira gandhi. but damn that is a poor job of editing.