Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Figures such as Buddha and Gandhi have been removed from us, but now one is palpably among us, and the opportunity is thrilling...
When a nation has to battle for its very survival, concepts such as democracy don't mean very much to its people [June 21]. The last thing India needs today is a return to the pre-emergency chaos. Mrs. Gandhi has done more to move India forward than any previous leader (including her illustrious father...
...anyone say," demanded Mrs. Gandhi in a speech before her departure, "that we have ever been more united, more stable and more strong than we are now?" She was addressing a special meeting of the All-India Congress Committee, the decision-making body of the ruling party, at which delegates dutifully approved several proposed constitutional changes that will further consolidate the Prime Minister's rule. Among other things, the new amendments will limit the right of the judiciary to strike down laws passed by Parliament, and explicitly forbid court challenges to constitutional amendments passed by Parliament...
...same speech, Mrs. Gandhi proposed a "national fitness" program because "we cannot afford to be a flabby nation-we must get rid of flabbiness in body and mind and be strong in every way." She deplored the fact that women in India, by and large, "have no personality of their own and exist merely to serve the whims of men." Then she turned to the government's stern family planning policy, which aims at reducing the country's growth rate from over 2% to 1.4% by 1980. Among her recommendations: providing a strong program of incentives and "disincentives...
...However bright India's short-term economic outlook may be, its political prospects are far less certain. If the new monsoon is normally heavy, if public order prevails, and if she can be absolutely sure that she and her party will be returned with a handsome majority, Mrs. Gandhi will call free-and presumably democratic -elections late this year or in the spring, and these elections will undoubtedly be accompanied by a relaxation of the strictures imposed during the emergency. This does not mean that Indian democracy will ever be quite the same again; the parliamentary system, the courts...