Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has happened? The fact is that though the Congress Party still holds an overwhelming majority (365 out of 499 seats in Parliament), it has been slipping badly in recent state and municipal elections; e.g., in Kerala, where the Communists recently scored their first major Indian victory (TIME, April 1), and in last week's municipal elections in Bombay, where the Congress Party was defeated for the first time in 19 years because apathetic party hacks failed to assess the genuineness of the popular drive for a separate, Marathi-speaking Bombay state. The candidate who piled up the largest...
...concern over the future of the Congress Party, few Indians seemed willing to lay any of the blame where some of it belonged-at the door of Jawaharlal Nehru himself. While Nehru's vast popularity is what most holds the party together, he also tends to strangle and restrict it. By running both the party and the government like a Mogul court, Nehru has failed notably to foster any young talent. As a result, young Indians resent the party, charge that it offers little opportunity to intelligent newcomers. Of 13 chief ministers recently appointed in Congress-run states, five...
Both hero and plot seemed the mixture as before. In Bombay, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, in India since January to shoot documentary films, was lodged in Room 544A of the big, baroque Taj Mahal Hotel. Next door, in connecting Suite 545, was ensconced a tall Indian woman named Sonali Das Gupta, 27, mother of two boys and wife of one of India's top film producers, Hari Das Gupta. Sonali had larger accommodations, presumably because her 6-month-old son was sometimes brought to stay with her there. The couple seldom emerged from their quarters even for meals...
...bath the most prominent circles set in the rectangle of the living area. Blue translucent-glass panels let in light and cut the glare; the interior is furnished with pale Japanese silks, gold-veined black Belgian marble, Finnish lamps, lacquered cane and teak chairs, aquamarine Puerto Rican tile, East Indian alabaster, a walnut-paneled bath with a circular tub of cerulean Italian tiles. Architect Hampton built the house to suit the owner's specific demands: "A home where I and my friends could be comfortable in shorts or a dinner jacket...
...personalities and incidents concerning all but the two main characters are submerged in the usual modernized cowboy-and-Indian routine, punctuated with moral statements such as "A man has gotta fight for what he believes in" and the like...