Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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India has always felt somewhat guilty about its Naga war, especially since Gandhi himself had promised the hill people independence if they wanted it. Last year Nehru gave in to the extent of creating Nagaland state, with its capital at Kohima. In February, a Baptist convention proposed that a three-man committee consisting of two Indians and Britain's champion of the underdog, the Rev. Michael Scott, explore the prospects of talks with the rebels. The Naga leader, Angami Zapu Phizo, who is known to his followers as "The One," and who lives in exile in London, was promised...
...moved out to a spot where the muddy brown current of the sacred Ganges is joined by the green water of the Jumna River. Airplanes circled overhead, and one dived down to shower rose petals. Small craft crowded close as Nehru's tall, handsome grandsons, Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi, lifted the urn. Thousands waded into the river in a frenzy of mourning-one luckless woman ventured too far, was swept away and drowned...
Almost all posts in the somewhat lackluster Cabinet were filled by holdovers from Nehru's day, including such familiar leaders as Defense Minister Y. B. Chavan and Railways Minister S. K. Patil. The most important newcomer is Nehru's gifted daughter, Indira Gandhi, who became Minister of Information, may later be promoted to Foreign Minister. That post, as well as the Ministry of Atomic Energy, Shastri kept for himself for the time being...
...left, are likely to give him several months' grace before they start rocking the boat. And after 17 years of Nehru's aristocratic rule, the mass of the Indian people appear to regard Shastri as representing a return to the homey, close-to-the-soil leadership of Gandhi...
...home and its external dangers, especially from Red China, cannot be foreseen. Shastri, at least, can be depended on to expend his life willingly, if necessary. As a top Indian leader said last week, "After Nehru, we had no giant. So we turned to a man more like Gandhi, with the softness of silk and yet the hardness of steel...