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...Monkey Brigade. Judged by that criterion, Indira bodes well indeed for India. "My public life," she declares, "began when I was three." Her mother, a frail Kashmiri, was a Congress Party leader in Indira's native city, Allahabad. Father was heir apparent to Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the independence movement. Grandfather was a wealthy lawyer and an early member of the Congress movement. The Nehrus' mansion was a center for illegal Congress Party gatherings. Recalls Indira: "The most important meetings were on our lawn." Reprisals by India's British rulers were harsh, and often Indira watched one or both...
Details about face lifting made little impression on the emaciated peasants of Phulpur, a district in northern India, 16 miles from Allahabad, which ever since 1952 had loyally returned the late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Parliament. In last week's by-election, the empty seat was being contested by Madame Pandit, Nehru's younger sister, who had the full backing of the dominant Congress Party, and Socialist Lohia was on hand as a lifelong enemy of the Nehru family. In 1962, Lohia personally fought for the seat against Nehru and was soundly trounced. Last week...
Leaving Delhi last week, a special train crawled slowly through a yellow haze of summer dust. In one coach, heaped with red roses, jasmine and white lotus blooms, stood a large silver-and-copper urn holding Nehru's ashes.*Reaching Allahabad, Nehru's home town, late that night, the urn was carried in procession through the predawn coolness to the riverbank and loaded aboard a white-painted amphibious "duck." The boat moved out to a spot where the muddy brown current of the sacred Ganges is joined by the green water of the Jumna River. Airplanes circled overhead...
Vigorous Turn. With Nehru gone, the gaze of India and the world turned to his successor. Flying back to New Delhi from Allahabad, Shastri was officially installed as Prime Minister and turned vigorously to the tasks before him. A conciliator by nature, he hoped to bring his principal rival, Morarji Desai, into his new Cabinet. Spare, ascetic ex-Finance Minister Desai demanded that he be given a post that would, in effect, make him deputy prime minister and No. 2 man in India. When Shastri countered with the offer of the No. 3 position in the Cabinet, just under that...
...freedom, the lad quit high school three months before he was due to graduate, and, in all, was arrested eight times by the British, serving a total of nine years in jail. In 1932, when police refused to let Indian nationalists hoist their flag on the clock tower of Allahabad, he rode by in a cart, disguised in the veils of a Moslem woman, suddenly leaped off and sprinted up the tower stairs, raising the flag before the police could stop...