Word: ernakulam
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...problem takes on added importance with the approach of next February's general elections. The present forecast is for a significant loss for the Congress Party. Thus, as they met last week in the Kerala coastal city of Ernakulam to draw up an election manifesto, party figures of every stripe recognized the urgent need for harmony...
Nehru is often embarrassed by the clamorous support Communists give him while they attack the Congress Party. But this time even Nehru touched on the sympathy Indian Communists have shown for Red Chinese violations of India's borders. Nehru told a crowd in Ernakulam that "if any group in India in a moment of crisis forgets that its basic loyalty is to India, then that group does not represent India, whatever else it might be." The Kerala Communists, he said, are a "very backward party...
...minutes before policewomen arrived to lead her away. Then 14 men pickets, sprawled in front of the building, were also dragged away by police. By the end of the first day of mass defiance, 215 demonstrators had been jailed. Against one crowd of 2,000 pickets in Ernakulam district, police tried flailing them with lathees, then opened fire, leaving five dead and 30 injured...
...Christian groups has been having a separate celebration for St. Thomas. Jacobites and St. Thomas Christians held observances at Kottayam and Trichur. Last week the Romo-Syrians held the biggest celebration. Led by a special papal delegate, Australia's Norman Cardinal Gilroy, 50 archbishops and bishops gathered at Ernakulam, the old capital of Cochin. After the cardinal's special train, decorated with festive bunches of coconuts and bananas, pulled into the station, a crowd of 100,000 led the visiting clergy to Christnagar (Christ town). As the cardinal passed through the streets, fireworks were set off and Christian...
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