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...demanding economic improvements from the central government, such as higher wheat prices and more investment in Punjab. Some Sikhs want a form of regional autonomy that would give to Punjab authority in all areas of state government except currency, railways, communications and defense. Others want the city of Chandigarh, which is also the capital of the neighboring Hindu state of Haryana, to be designated exclusively as Punjab's political capital...
...state created at the same time for the Hindus. Therefore, the Akali Dal Party, the political arm of the Sikhs, began an insistent drumbeat of peaceful protest. In 1973 the Akalis passed a resolution setting out various religious and political demands, among them that Punjab's capital, Chandigarh, be made a Sikh capital exclusively, and Amritsar a holy city...
Hughes, who is TIME'S art critic, makes a confident, opinionated guide. Some of his greatest scorn is directed at modern architecture. Though he praises Le Corbusier as an inventor of shapes, he showers contempt upon his most famous projects: Chandigarh, the Indian city built at the foot of the Himalayas, and the Unité d'Habitation, the huge apartment house outside Marseille. Hughes visits the Marseille building and stops in the shopping mall that Corbu put inside. It is empty. The French like the bustle of a real marketplace. Corbusier, says Hughes, thought of everything...
...Treatment. Sanjay's enormous advantage is that his name is already known to millions of Indians. Last month he was elected to the executive committee of the youth wing of the ruling Congress Party. He also attended the party's national convention at Chandigarh, where he was given VIP treatment. Arriving unannounced one day at the delegate's dining hall for lunch, he was greeted with shouts of "Sanjay Gandhi zindabad!" (Long live Sanjay Gandhi!)-the sort of accolade usually reserved for national leaders...
...since June, it was stung to modest rebellion by harsh new controls in early December, which among other things abolished the right of newspapers to report parliamentary debate without restriction, a privilege they had enjoyed for 19 years. The result was a rash of mildly sarcastic cartoons. After the Chandigarh announcement last week, the Indian Express (whose once virulent criticism of the government has now been effectively brought to heel) came out with one showing two elders holding up a New Year's banner. The message: RING OUT THE OLD, RING...