Word: hindy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Troops in red turbans and elephants in gold caparisons march through New Delhi this week. The occasion is Republic Day, commemorating India's 15th independence anniversary. Also ushered in by the date is another event less loudly cheered: the formal designation of Hindi as India's official language...
...source is To Katanga And Back by Conor Cruise O'Brien. According to Mr. O'Brien, the code name for the operation was Morthor, a Hindi word which does not mean "put out the fire in the garage," or "defend yourself". It means "smash." Mr. O'Brien can hardly be accused either of ignorance or of pro-katagese bias; he was the U.N official in charge in Elizabethville during the operation. His only major objection to the way Morthor was handled was that the lie, invented after Tshombe had eluded the U.N. and the operation had apparently failed, made...
...establish a center to treat every area of study. Since Chicago already has a fine South Asian program, it would be better, perhaps, for Harvard to concentrate on Latin America. If a student wants to specialize in South Asian studies, let him go to Chicago--and learn his Hindi there if necessary. Nevertheless, Harvard should offer some introduction to one of the most important areas of the modern world...
Jones firmly believed that Christians, if they hoped to conquer the world for Jesus, would have to meet Eastern cultures on their own terms. He not only learned Hindi and Urdu, as did most other missionaries, but dressed in Indian clothes, openly sided with the independence movement. Today Jones finds that the spiritual gap between East and West has narrowed mightily. "We used to say that the mission field was on the map, but now I know it is in the heart," he says...
...gradually comes to realize that all he really wants is his wife. Little else happens, or needs to. The film is overlong, and though clearly inspired by the work of India's cinematic wizard Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy), it is far less ambitious artistically. Produced in both Hindi and English versions, The Householder aims for popular success and scores a soft-as-silk...