Word: darshan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning's papers. At 7:30 she has a light breakfast. Her father would not tolerate fat people around him, and the 5 ft. 2 in. Indira has done her best to remain slim. As Information Minister, she usually received a stream of visitors after breakfast who were seeking darshan (communion) or asking for redress from grievances. Her day at the office was long; most of her evenings were spent at home reading...
After breakfast, he strolls out to the wide, flower-fringed lawn for his regular hour of darshan (audience) with the favor seekers and admirers that surround any politician. A chauffeur and a single white-clad bodyguard accompany him in a black, Indian-built Hindustan Ambassador sedan to his office in the circular, sandstone Parliament House. Office routine-sometimes 17 hours a day of it-is interrupted only by a vegetarian lunch of curry, potato cutlet and tea (prepared by his wife) and a half-hour nap. A heart attack in 1959 and another seizure last year, shortly after he assumed...
...country, he is not a statesman but an idol. Each morning, large crowds assemble on the lawn outside his New Delhi home. Some present petitions or beg favors, but thousands, in recent weeks, have handed over money or gold dust for the national defense. Most come just to achieve darshan, communion, with the country's leader. The throng is comforted and reassured, not by the words, but by the presence of Nehru...