Word: giri
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...both serious and funny. And as his sudden demise suggests, it is not subtle. Almost all the characters are none-too-thinly veiled portraits of real figures in the Nazi hierarchy. Hitler becomes Arturo Ui (Chad Raphael), Ernst Roehm becomes Ernesto Roma (Jeff Alexander), Hermann Goering becomes Emanuele Giri (David Schrag) and Joseph Goebbels becomes Giuseppi Givola (Anthony Korotko Hatch...
Because Sanjay did not hold a national office, the elaborate cremation ceremony was actually a private service. Flags in the capital flew at half-staff, not for Sanjay but for V.V. Giri, a former President of India who had died that day at the age of 85. But if Sanjay did not hold prominent office, he had an unofficial position of vast power. He vetted candidates for Cabinet posts and was rebuilding the party. In the January elections that returned his mother to power, Sanjay not only won a seat for himself but hand-picked at least 100 winners...
DIED. Varahagiri Venkata Giri, 85, India's Brahman-born fourth President (1969-74), a fierce trade unionist and pacifist dubbed the "genial militant" by the Western press and friend of such revolutionaries as Eamon de Valera and Mohandas Gandhi; of a heart attack; in Madras...