Word: gandhis
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...DIED. PAMULAVARTI VENKAT NARASIMHA RAO, 83, former Prime Minister of India whose bold reforms in the 1990s helped jump-start the country's economy; in New Delhi. Following the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi in 1991, Rao abandoned a planned retirement to lead the government, and over the next five years guided the nation through a grave economic crisis and a bitter battle between Hindus and Muslims over a mosque in central India. Rao ultimately fell victim to political infighting and accusations of corruption by members of the opposition, for which he was recently acquitted. After the Congress Party lost...
...Your article described the view of traditionalists who believe that India is defined by restraint reflected in Gandhian frugality. A different point of view was provided by journalist Swapan Dasgupta, who said, "Gandhi may still be an icon, but Gandhism is dead as a dodo." Gandhism can never die. The Mahatma's sole objective in life was to turn man's attention to God and teach man how to seek the guidance of this kindly light within his soul in every situation. Gandhism is the very soul of man. Mukut Behari Lal New Delhi...
...always certain that if I ever found myself in the position that I am in today, I would follow my inner voice. Today, that voice tells me I must humbly decline this post." SONIA GANDHI, president of India's Congress Party, turning down the position of Prime Minister after her party was voted into power...
...knows who the Gandhi or Mandela…of the AIDS movement is?” he said at the conclusion of his remarks. “Maybe it’s someone in this room. But God knows, we have to find that person...
...absurdity of India can be total." India, he said, had borrowed words like "democracy" and "science" from the West, but Indians were miming these words without knowing what they meant. In 1975 he visited again, railing that India?then in the midst of a crisis caused by Indira Gandhi's decision to suspend democracy?was "left alone with the blankness of its decayed civilization." The only hope, Naipaul argued, was that the country had failed so completely that Indians would reject their past and start over...