Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week hoped to get a longer-than-usual look at Indira Gandhi, who in more ways than one is India's most intriguing woman. She attended the opening of the New York World's Fair, but before she had a chance to show off more than three or four of her exquisite saris, she was called back to India by her father, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The ailing Nehru wanted "Indu" (Moon), as he calls her, at his side for an important confrontation this week with Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, "the Lion of Kashmir," who has been demanding...
Prison Education. India's struggle for nationhood has almost totally absorbed Indira Gandhi's energies. "My public life," she boasts, "began at three." At twelve, she banded other children together in the illegal "monkey brigade," whose task was to sneak political messages past British soldiers. One visitor to Nehru's Allahabad home was gravely informed by his daughter: "I'm sorry, but Papa and Mama and Grandpapa are all in prison...
...ailing Prime Minister resign or name a deputy with authority to act as head of the government, Nehru's official family launched a campaign to show that India's evident leadership vacuum does not really exist. Nehru's daughter and chief political troubleshooter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, claimed that her father had "fully recovered" from the stroke he suffered Jan. 7 and that, at 74, "he is much better than he was six months before the illness." Health Minister Sushila Nayar (who was Mahatma Gandhi's physician) said that Nehru "is in fact his old self...
Equally shrill is the Nationalist Independence Rally, once headed by Marcel Chaput, 45, a former government biochemist. Several months ago, Chaput embarked on a 34-day Gandhi-like fast and raised $100,000 for the separatist movement that he confidently predicts will win out before Canada reaches its centennial of Confederation in 1967. Last week Dr. Chaput drew angry cries of treason after he issued a warning to Queen Elizabeth, who plans to visit Canada next October. "Some of my people," he said, "are ready to let her know-and brutally-that she is no longer welcome in French Canada...
...caste Indians, but eventually decided that it was more important to evangelize among the high-caste Hindus, who made up the intellectual and spiritual leadership of the country. Out of this new mission to the top people grew Jones' rewarding friendship with Poet Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi...