Word: chaudhuri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decorate their workshops and literally worship the god in their machines. But the machine does not require worship; it requires hard work, precision and comprehension. Sensing a lack of these, many Indians are pessimistic about the future. "Everyone is' waiting for the Americanization of India," says Essayist Nirad Chaudhuri, "but what they are going to get is the Hinduization of industry." Such critics fear that modernization is by no means inevitable; a thin, progressive upper crust might continue to live side by side with a vast, impoverished mass...
...unfinished budget for fiscal 1967 and a legacy of bitterness among both foreign and domestic businessmen. If few of them understood the nightmarish problems that any Indian Finance Minister has to cope with, most still held high hopes for their fortunes under the new man, Calcutta Lawyer Sachindra Chaudhuri, who was expected to take a far more flexible approach. Indeed, on news of a change in the post, shares on the Indian stock exchanges staged a brisk rally...
Except for daily briefings by India's army chief of staff, tall, mustached General Joyanto N. Chaudhuri, Shastri stays aloof from the war. Explains an aide, "He feels this is a professional matter, and should be left to the professionals." Most of Shastri's day is spent with Parliament and in meetings with an emergency committee made up of five of his Cabinet ministers. Here, Shastri makes the decisions, overruling Defense Minister Yashwantrao B. Chavan, who opposed the digging of slit trenches in New Delhi for fear of alarming the population, and ordering that rationing machinery...
...served for six years as Chief Minister of Bombay, the richest and most industrialized Indian state. The army's new commander in chief, Lieut. General J. N. Chaudhuri, the "Victor of Goa," who also saw action in World War II campaigns in the Middle East and Burma, is a close friend of Chavan...