Word: gandhis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since Indira Gandhi launched what she hopes will be a political comeback three weeks ago (TIME, Aug. 15), official probes of corruption in her fallen regime have been reaching ever deeper into her inner circle-and ever closer to the former Prime Minister herself. First came the news that four top advisers had been jailed on charges of embezzling $7 million from her Congress Party's campaign funds. Then last week the investigators landed their biggest catch so far: ex-Defense Minister Bansi Lal, 49, who was arrested on charges of misappropriating $60,000 from the party...
...lawyer and former chief minister of the state of Haryana, bordering Delhi, Lal became Mrs. Gandhi's Defense Minister in December 1975, six months after she had declared the political emergency that eventually led to her downfall. During his tenure, Lal wielded enormous power and acquired a reputation for arrogance and vindictiveness. As a member of the "caucus of four" that surrounded Mrs. Gandhi during the emergency, he enjoyed an influence second only to that of her son Sanjay, another caucus member to whom he was also close...
...fact, it was Lal's Sanjay connection that most intrigued observers of India's gathering political storm. Mrs. Gandhi's son treated the Congress Party's youth movement, whose funds Lal is accused of stealing, as his personal fief. Both have been granted anticipatory bail against possible charges relating to other investigations. Most of the probes are unrelated, but in at least one the two men could be implicated jointly. At issue: whether Lal arranged the sale of state land to Sanjay at below market prices for the construction of a controversial automobile plant, and whether...
...move is mainly a show of force by India's new rulers. They are eager to prove that they can enforce the 1973 Foreign Exchange Regulation Act better than Indira Gandhi's Congress Party, which was thrown out of office last March. The new mood is a far cry from the more tranquil days of 1950, when Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of newly independent India, sipped Coke as the cornerstone was laid for an Indian Coke-bottling plant, or in the mid-'60s, when the Dalai Lama, in India as a refugee from the Communist takeover...
...contingent historical fact" that faith "came alive through the figure of Jesus" for those raised in Christian cultures. To another of the authors, Michael Goulder, a tutor in theology at Birmingham University, Christ should be considered as "a man of universal destiny," an enhanced version of such figures as Gandhi...