Word: hindustan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advertisement in last week's issue of the New Delhi Hindustan Times was clearly designed to catch the eye of marriage-minded Indian males: MATCH FOR TALL, CONVENT-EDUCATED, LEGALLY DIVORCED 27-YEAR-OLD GIRL DRAWING FOUR-FIGURE SALARY, FOREIGN FIRM. FATHER SENIOR OFFICIAL. FAMILY RESPECTABLE AND HIGHLY CONNECTED. If the "legally divorced" line discouraged bachelor readers, they could scan hundreds of other announcements in the Times's nine columns of "matrimonial" ads. The ads discreetly avoided the subject of dowries. Yet the real nuptial knot in India-where 90% of marriages are still arranged-is not love...
...pride this week and helped bolster Mrs. Gandhi's strike-embattled administration (TIME, May 20). Yet many others argued that nuclear bombs will have no effect on the economic ills of a country where incomes continue to plummet and prices rise faster than a mushroom cloud. As a Hindustan Times editorial observed last week: "A nuclear bang, albeit peaceful, means little without a corresponding release of economic and political energy...
...against the U.S. But there was no disguising that Washington was wounded-and that the wound was largely self-inflicted. In its overriding preoccupation with India's two greatest enemies, Pakistan and China, the U.S. simply left New Delhi nowhere to go but Moscow. Said the liberal daily Hindustan Times of New Delhi, which was unhappy about the treaty: "The U.S. has pushed India much further along than where it might have ventured...