Word: delhi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...waning moments of a blistering hot New Delhi afternoon, the elder son of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi performed the ancient Vedic rites for the dead. Rajiv Gandhi, 35, put the torch to the funeral pyre that held the battered body of his younger brother Sanjay, who had died in an air crash the day before. The ceremony, attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners, brought a sudden and tragic end to the Gandhi family's dynastic hopes that Sanjay, 33, would eventually succeed his mother as Prime Minister of India...
...license and an instructor's rating. Early last week, however, he began to fly a craft for which he had no rating: a small American-built Pitts S-2A biplane, designed for aerobatics. On Sunday morning, June 22, he flew the plane with a test pilot at the Delhi Flying Club. In the afternoon he took it on a series of joyrides with his wife Maneka, his mother's personal secretary R.K. Dhawan and the family's special guru, Dhirendra Brahmachari...
Jinabhai Navik, 78, Indian artist and jogger, loping into Delhi after a 34-day, 625-mile jog from Kashmir: "If you want to live, you must walk. If you want to live long, you must...
...Arabian Sea. Gwadar, its principal port, sits at the entrance to the Persian Gulf and the oil lanes to the West. Moscow's intervention in Afghanistan has renewed fears of Soviet subversion in the province, where disaffected separatists have long been agitating for regional autonomy. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Ganger last week visited Baluchistan. Her report...
...rather looked as though the Raj had returned to In'ja. Once more the Union Jack fluttered over Delhi's posh Roshanara Club, while pukka sahib types bowled on the cricket pitch. The bar of the Calcutta Light Horse, a regiment founded a century ago, was pink gin-deep in British officers. Some of them, though, looked film-familiar: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Roger Moore and Trevor Howard. The pseudo sahibs were shooting The Sea Wolves, about a daring 1943 attack on a German communications ship anchored off Goa. How did it feel to re-create the days...