Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elections in 1989 produced no clear parliamentary majority, the world's largest democracy has been vying for the title of most unmanageable. Last week India's third Prime Minister in two years, Chandrashekhar, resigned, annulling his minority government's four-month marriage of convenience with former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's dominant Congress Party. Immediate cause of the downfall: accusations that Chandrashekhar allies set spies on Gandhi...
...pacifist project, as far as I am concerned, is no longer tenable. No more Tolstoy or King (too Christian, too manly), no more Gandhi (too resolute), no more strong stand against over-whelming force. "The wisdom of nonviolence" has been vanquished in its pitched battle with the forces of logic, and my eyes sting when I read Mark A. Gragg '91 say to Crimson reporters, "Once we're committed, we're committed...
...Gandhi would not grant it. "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts," he said, "than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence." King would not grant it. And the Tolstoy who thought the time was coming for the end of war, well, what would he want with an unrepentant sinner like me, who hasn't even the courage to be anti-Christian...
...Does Prime Minister V.P. Singh enjoy the confidence of the house?" Last Wednesday, the question was put to a vote in the lower house of parliament, and Singh lost. Two days later, with the backing of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, his job was taken over by Chandrashekhar, who broke away from Singh's Janata Dal party on Monday...
...protect the Ayodhya mosque. But he will have a harder time swaying the rest of the population, which is more concerned with rising inflation and a growing budget deficit. The B.J.P. will fight back with its platform of Hindu Rashtra, trying to convert religious fervor into votes. Where Rajiv Gandhi's Congress (I) Party might enter the equation is anyone's guess. But in order to survive, the winner must find a way to appease Rama without sacrificing Indian democracy...