Word: delhi
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...moved quickly to replace some veteran ministers and administrators with a group of young technocrats and prepared to tackle such problems as demands by Sikhs for greater autonomy in the state of Punjab. The Prime Minister was in a relaxed mood as he discussed his plans with TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis. Excerpts from the interview...
TIME correspondents covered some of the same ground in reporting on Lean's 42-year career. New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis went to Calcutta to interview Victor Banerjee before the actor flew to Los Angeles to join Lean at Passage's premiere. Says Brelis: "There was a strong sense of old India. The Banerjee home and garden, in the center of the overcrowded city, is in fact extremely private, surrounded by a high wall." In Sydney, TIME'S Tim Dare talked to Actress Judy Davis about Lean's "volatile" directorial style. Reporter John Wright tracked...
...survivors barely had time to mourn when suddenly there they were: American lawyers. Looking for business. They courted Indian legal experts over leisurely meals in New Delhi's finest hotels. They culled documents at makeshift relief offices outside the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, seeking the names of potential clients. Their motives, the U.S. lawyers insisted, were pure. As Melvin Belli, the flamboyant San Francisco attorney sometimes called the "King of Torts," put it, somewhat inelegantly, "I am here to bring justice and money to those poor little people who have suffered at the hands of those rich sons...
...epic of the Mahatma was simplicity itself compared with telling the backstage story of Broadway gypsies. "If you're controlling a crowd of 250,000, it's logistics to a large degree," he observes. "You have the ambience of the plains of India and the slums of Delhi working for you. Here you have no change. You're in the theater...
...TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis was among the first Western correspondents to arrive in Bhopal last week. His report...