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...world mourn her death today, they know that her spirit will live on in the hearts and minds of the people of India--the peasents in the fields, the blue collar workers in the factories and offices and the businessmen and lawyers in the air-conditioned high rises of Bombay and New Delhi. In her life and now, in her death, Indira had something to say to them...
...York, a significant number of 1 those involved brought firsthand expertise to the assignment. Senior Writer William Smith, who wrote the main story, served as New Delhi bureau chief in 1975 and '76. Smith was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Naushad Mehta, who was born and reared in Bombay...
Alas, even the maestro could not keep harmony among his dissonant musicians. Zubin Mehta, 48, the Bombay-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic, had returned to his native land after an absence of 17 years. In New Delhi, the eleventh stop of the orchestra's eight-nation Asian tour, all seemed fine as two elephants tromboned a welcome, but then his musicians began raising a cacophony of complaints about the hotel accommodations. "Unbearable," screeched a violinist. "There are bugs in the bed," one musician whined. "And cockroaches," chimed in another. Mehta quieted the sour-note chorus by allowing...
...Parsis and others. Over the past year there have been riots or incipient rebellions in places as scattered as Assam in the northeast, Kashmir and Punjab in the north, and Maharashtra in the west. Only a month ago rioting broke out between Hindus and Muslims in the shantytowns around Bombay, leaving 258 dead. The Assamese are upset about the influx of refugees from West Bengal and neighboring Bangladesh. Every tribe has its nationalists, every community its zealots. For every insurrection, there are a dozen more waiting to be born...
...moderate and extremist Sikh factions over the past two years had brought violence in Punjab to alarming levels. In the past months alone, more than 300 people had died in Sikh-inspired violence. At the same time, tensions from last month's rioting among Hindus and Muslims in Bombay had built to such a degree that politicians began questioning Mrs. Gandhi's control over the country. There was speculation that further instability could cause her governing Congress (I) Party to suffer a serious setback in the national elections scheduled to be held by next January...