Word: durga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twelve weeks after his death, the people of India were vying with each other to enshrine Mahatma Gandhi. There were Gandhi auto works, Mahatma memorial colleges, Gandhi restaurants. In a Durga temple, an image of Gandhi now stood among the Hindu gods and goddesses. An enterprising manufacturer brought out the "Gandhi Cigar." The Congress Party planned a huge memorial fund (talked-of goal: $300 million), to be spent on such Gandhi causes as relief for Untouchables and village sanitation...
...renewal of the fury might come from, an utterly unpolitical cause. This week, in tense Calcutta and elsewhere in Bengal, worshipers of the goddess Durga will celebrate her festival with clay images and ceremonial parades. Durga is the good side of the same ambivalent goddess of which Kali is the evil face.* In this same week Moslems will celebrate Id-el-Atha, their version of the story of Abraham and Isaac. Usually they sacrifice cows, but this week many, lest the Hindus be offended, plan again to sacrifice sheep.† Even so, the two coincident festivals might touch off killing...
...Shape. In Lahore, India, a comedian named Durga Mota, 80 lbs. lighter since rationing began, pleaded from a hospital bed for more food, swore he needed 2 lbs. of flour, 60 cups of tea daily to get back to his customary...