Word: chakravarthi
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...cuddling young Rajmohan on his lap, but barely any family lore-puzzling, given how much access Rajmohan must have had to his grandfather's siblings, nieces and nephews. Little is said about the author's father, Devdas (a favored youngest son and activist), or his maternal grandfather, the brilliant Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, second governor-general of independent India and one of Gandhi's closest aides...
...Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, Undersecretary of the United Nations for General Assembly Affairs and Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary General, will speak on "The Problems of Peaceful Change" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Loeb Drama Center...
...precarious Congo operation was being run last week by the men who had been Hammarskjold's chief assistants-the U.S.'s Under Secretaries Andrew Cordier and Ralph Bunche. India's Under Secretary Chakravarthi Narasimhan-now dubbed the "Congo Club." By vote of the General Assembly. West Africa's Sierra Leone (pop. 2,500,000; area 27,940 sq. mi.) became the U.N.'s 100th member, just before the Security Council settled down near by to fight over Russia's package deal on two other membership applications, those of Mauritania and Outer Mongolia-a knotty...
Making his first official call on India's new Governor General Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Soviet Ambassador Kirill Novikov* addressed "Rajaji" as "Your Excellency." When the Governor General expressed surprise at his use of the title, Novikov explained:"We dropped the custom after the Revolution, but later felt that it had been a mistake."† "What?" Rajaji inquired sweetly. "The Revolution...
Last month Gandhi invited Jinnah to talk it over. Jinnah squirmed. But persuasive, popular, moderate Chakravarthi Rajagopalachariar, who had talked Gandhi into accepting the Pakistan idea, constituted himself a one-man arrangements committee. From his comfortable Madras law office he kept the wires busy. Jinnah agreed to the meeting he had refused since...