Word: brahmans
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...similar to the Bakke case [July 10]-the Untouchables' being given opportunities in jobs and universities-the Supreme Court in India ruled in 1975: "The concept of equality is that if persons are dissimilarly placed, they cannot be made equal by having the same treatment." I am a Brahman, and I agree with that decision and consequently disagree with the remarks of Justice Lewis Powell that "the guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color...
...exigencies of desperation. For such large themes, the story itself is notably modest. A young college graduate who lives in Calcutta with his father, brother and sister cannot find a job. After almost a year of unemployment, Somnath (gently played by Pradip Mukherjee) defies the traditions of his Brahman background and goes into small business, hustling everything from stationery to industrial whitening, buying low, selling high, pocketing the difference. He is called, politely, a "middleman." Somnath learns soon enough that to be a success, certain principles must be modified, others scrapped entirely. By the end of the film...
...Excerpt: "Guru in the glory of the personified transcendental fulness of Brahman, to him, to Shri Guru Dev, adorned with glory, I bow down...
Jawaharlal Nehru, Hindu leader of India's Congress Party and the first native Prime Minister, is also warmly praised for his Brahman sensitivity. The villain of the book is Mohammed Ali Jinnah, fanatical leader of the Moslem League, who demands the separate state of Pakistan for his people. "We shall have India divided," he warns, "or we shall have India destroyed...
...after his father's death, rose early. Eight different kinds of clay were ceremonially applied to various parts of his body. After a ritual bathing with holy water, he was sprinkled with clarified butter, milk, curd and honey by representatives of the four traditional Hindu castes: a Brahman, a warrior, a merchant and an Untouchable. Only then was Birendra-also known as the King of Kings, the Five Times Godly, the Valorous Warrior, the Divine Emperor and the reincarnation of Vishnu, god of preservation-ready to be crowned...