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There is a similarly ambiguous quality to the education which the Volunteer picks up abroad. After two years he understands infinitely more than someone who spends six weeks in Bombay with Experiment in International Living, but he achieves something less than--or better, very different from--the visiting anthropologist or political scientist. Indeed, Volunteers often find it fashionable to describe their environment in the kind of sweeping, value-laden generalizations which they learned to beware of in college history of sociology class. "Peruvian Indians are simple and friendly people," they will joke, or "The Ghanaians are so much smarter than...
While her opponents danced in the streets of Bombay, threw confetti in Calcutta, and held victory parades in Madras, Indira Gandhi retreated into the seclusion of her modest New Delhi bungalow. There was ample reason for gloom. The Congress Party, which has ruled India for 20 years and won elections with clocklike regularity, suffered setbacks in India's fourth general elections that far exceeded even the most pessimistic predictions and imperiled Indira's chances of continuing as Prime Minister...
...Always an unwieldly conglomerate of everything from conservative businessmen to dreamy leftists, the Congress Party is suffering from an attack of election-eve defections. Fiery old Leftist Krishna Menon, India's onetime Defense Minister, has bolted the party after failing to win its nomination for Parliament from Bombay, is running as an independent. Key leaders in six other states have also broken with the party and taken their followers along with them. Worse yet, the rebels have somewhere to go. Two up-and-coming conservative parties-the Hindu Jana Sangh and the free-enterprising Swatantra-are welcoming Congress Party...
...thing is certain. From Bombay to Berkeley, Vinh Long to Volgograd, he has clearly signaled his determination to live according to his own lights and rights. His convictions and actions, once defined, will shape the course and character of nations...
When she was named Miss World last month, India's Reita Faria, 23, intended to pass up the usual tours and hurry back to medical school in Bombay. But later she sighed: "It would be almost impossible to get back to my studies-too many interviews and disturbances." So she agreed to go along with Bob Hope's Christmas troupe to Viet Nam, and that caused quite a disturbance in her neutralist homeland. Before long, even the Indian Foreign Office was pressuring her to cancel out so as not to lend her country's name...