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...Indira's other ministerial switches, Swaran Singh, 59, went from the Foreign Office to Chavan's old post at Defense. His place in foreign affairs was taken by Mahomedali Currim Chagla, 66, an Oxford-educated Moslem who has served as ambassador to both the U.S. and Great Britain. Chagla's vacant spot in Education went, in turn, to Fakhruddin Ahmed, 61, whose old post as Minister for Irrigation and Power will be filled temporarily by one of his senior assistants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: A Show of Independence | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

From all indications, the southerners would like English as India's official language, and they have an impassioned ally in Oxford-educated Education Minister (and former Ambassador to the U.S.) Mahomedali Chagla, who has pleaded: "Let us not destroy the link language. It is our window to the world." Under the 1963 act, Parliament is to review the language question again in 1975. But at his first formal press conference last week, Premier Shastri confirmed his support for Hindi, and as for bureaucratic snafus, he said simply, "There will have to be some waste of time." With that, Shastri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Bureaucracy by Doublespeak | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Indian ambassador Mahomedali Currim Chagla, novelist Ayn Rand, and best-selling author Vance Packard are among the other guest speakers in the series...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DIPLOMAT WILL SPEAK | 3/11/1961 | See Source »

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