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...Jumna River, laid a bouquet of white roses on the spot where Gandhi was cremated in 1948. Visiting a home for vagrant boys in Delhi and the children's ward of a hospital, she made her first namastes-the Indian palms-together greeting-and tried out her Hindi ("What is your name?"). She also paid a call on India's President Rajendra Prasad at the presidential palace in New Delhi, and though she ate Western food during most of her trip, gamely dug into chicken korma and alu-mattar, washed down with spiced orange punch...
...contempt for constituents. At one gathering in a slum area, he stretched out on the platform behind the party functionary who was eulogizing his accomplishments and fell fast asleep. Awakened by applause, he scrambled to his feet and spoke a few words in English, which sailed right over his Hindi-speaking audience...
...Hindi Chini, Bye-Bye. The situation erupted over Red China's latest violation of the 2,000-mile-long Sino-Indian frontier. Since the signing of the 1954 pact, the Red Chinese have again and again penetrated Indian territory. Red China does not recognize the 1914 McMahon line, which fixed India's Tibetan border in the North-East Frontier Agency, claims that the actual frontier runs 100 miles south of the present line on the south slope of the Himalayas. Two years ago, Red China occupied 12,000 sq. mi. of Indian territory in Kashmir, has laid claim...
...critics scored Nehru last week for his faith in the slogan Hindi Chini bhai bhai ("Indians and Chinese are brothers"), the talk of ancient cultural ties, and the fact that India and China had not been at war with each other for 1,000 years. But they pointed out that the millennium of peace was also a period during which the two countries had scant contact of any kind, knew nothing of each other, had little in common. By their dogged reliance on Panch Shila in the face of Red China's repeated aggressions, said Socialist Leader Asoka Mehta...
Ingalls pointed out that Hindi is one of the "critical languages" eligible for federal matching funds provided under the National Defense Education Act if the University supplies half the funds...