Word: gandhis
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Instability is the tired theme that has droned across India's political landscape since the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, and Indian voters are becoming apathetic. Since 1989, not a single prime minister has managed to hold onto parliamentary support for a full five-year term. India's voting participation rates--which were once praised as an indicator of a robust democracy--have dropped by nearly 10 percent...
...That Gandhi Magic National elections may put a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family at the head of India's government once again...
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI 1930 Unleashing the longings of a subcontinent...
...teach them together; this [combined language] is what Gandhi called Hindustani. It's a very unusual language situation--the spoken language is almost identical," he says. "But once you get to classical literature, Hindi becomes Sanscritized and Urdu becomes Arabized or Persianized, so the languages become mutually incomprehensible...
...past three years, her child-care initiative represents a new attempt at public redemption after wandering more or less by herself in the political wilderness. She tried "reflective meditation" sessions with New Age psychic philosopher Jean Houston, who persuaded her to enact conversations with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi; she talked about tracking the progress of welfare reform for her husband but has done so only from the sidelines in an unofficial capacity; facing the empty nest, she thought of adopting a baby. Says longtime friend Diane Blair, a member of Hillary's inner circle: "She was trying to figure...