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...strategies to aid recovery. I disapprove of the word cure, for no such thing exists. Good health is about balance, and ill health occurs when the balance in the body is lost. If one can encourage rebalancing the mind, body and spirit, then health is a natural outcome. Diksha Chakravarti Reading, England While some complementary therapies may be harmless placebos, they typically involve a lot of interaction between patient and practitioner. By contrast, conventional medicine is often run like a production line that goes all out for speed. Communication with patients is cut back to the point where informed-consent...
...Died. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 94, India's elder statesman and a principal lieutenant of Mohandas Gandhi during their country's struggle for independence; in Madras, India. A Brahman lawyer who joined Gandhi in 1919, "Rajaji" served his mentor as publisher and administrative aide. His leadership in passive resistance against the British led to frequent jail terms. Though his prophetic support for a separate Moslem state-which became Pakistan-caused a break with Gandhi in 1942, he later rejoined his old ally and in 1948 became India's first native-born Governor-General. Long a conservative and an ardent...
India's elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 86, who quit the Congress to found the Swatantra Party, fears that one day the Congress and the government might merge into a one-party state. Local Congress leaders who have held power since 1947 own too much land and urban property to permit the reforms that are needed if India is to reach economic equity. The zamindars of West Bengal, for example, have become (through Congress Party consent) the equivalent of the English gentry...
...week's end, Nehru finally got off dead center through the declaration of a state of emergency, putting the nation on a war footing. India's elder statesman, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, leader of the conservative Swatantra Party, demanded that Nehru fire Menon as De fense Minister and take over the post himself. He charged that India's defense policy "has proved to be a miserable failure. It is meaningless to accuse the enemy of cheating-it's the enemy's business to cheat." Rajaji mourned that India stood alone: "All our neighbors are either against...
...largely limited to three conservative states, Bihar, Gujerat and Rajasthan, where the beauteous Maharani of Jaipur defeated the Congress Party candidate in the election's biggest victory. The party was beaten in all major cities, stands third in Parliament with 18 seats. The Swatantra's plucky leader Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, called it a rout, but asked his supporters for the "patience and grit" to rally again...