Word: desai
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Seeing action for the first time this season because of a separated shoulder. Harvard's Jack Colbourne jumped out to a 2-1 lead in games before Sunic Desai bounced back to win the fourth game, 15-12. Colbourne's five-game victory upped the Crimson's lead...
...land of tandoori chicken and the Nehru jacket. India's reputation has also suffered, at least among Americans, from the country's professed detachment in conflicts between the U.S. and the Soviets, and the frequent appearance of a political entente between New Delhi and Moscow. Says Festival Coordinator Niranjan Desai of India's embassy in Washington: "We are a developing country, but the already developed aspects of our nation are not fully understood. We have historic reasons for neutrality...
Given the festival's loose, long-term political aspirations, some Americans have questioned whether the money might be better spent on charitable causes in the subcontinent. In India too, concedes Festival Director General S.K. Misra, "there was a campaign to oppose it." A further cause for discontent, according to Desai: "From U.S. companies that do business in India, the response in terms of donations has not been as good as we would have anticipated...
...Anita Desai...
...fighter. In 1967 she proposed a controversial ten-point program that included nationalizing the commercial banks and cutting off the government's $6 million annual subsidies to a variety of maharajahs and princelings. When conservative opponents rallied around her chief rival, Deputy Prime Minister Morarji Desai, she dismissed him from her Cabinet. When the party chiefs, angered by her leftward turn, expelled her for "grave acts of undiscipline," she went to the Parliament and won a vote of confidence. When she called a surprise election in 1971, she triumphantly captured more than two-thirds of the seats. And when...