Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazines, most of which had been harassed into silence by censorship and government found their voices again. The Time of India called the election "a second liberation struggle" and added "Never before has the country been through such hell." Observed the Statesman, which had courageously criticized emergency excesses: "We Indians can hold our heads a little higher today." The Indian Express which had been brought to the verge of bankruptcy by a variety of governmental dirty tricks, said, "Indian democracy will never again be the same . . .No future government however large its majority in Parliament can afford to assume that...
...United States, as in other Western countries, there was widespread satisfaction with the results. As one State Department official put it, "Indian democracy worked-and with a vengeance." Although careful not to gloat, a Carter Administration official said he found it "refreshing to see so many people opt for freedom in what amounts to a referendum against martial law." Perhaps the most enthusiastic response of all came from New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former U.S. Ambassador to India (1973-75). He introduced a resolution in the Senate to "congratulate the free people of the Republic...
Despite the austerity of his lifestyle, Prime Minister Desai is not one of the sadhu-Indian holy men who believe that it is enough to be and not to do. A shrewd political activist, he argues that "things should be done for their own sake. I accept that I will never understand reality, so I concentrate on action, dharma [duty] and commitment." Last week, at his government bungalow in New Delhi, he outlined his views of India's future in an interview with TIME Correspondents Lawrence Malkin and William Stewart. Excerpts...
...election: her mass sterilization campaign. No one questions that India needs effective family planning; after all, the country's population has almost doubled in 30 years (to 620 million) and may reach one billion by the year 2000. But the government's program to vasectomize millions of Indian males who had fathered two or more children-ruthlessly and often illegally applied-came to symbolize the dangers of authoritarian rule. TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Lawrence Malkin reports...
...months ago, the Family Planning Council declared that "a most favorable climate has been created in the country for the voluntary acceptance" of sterilization. A recent tour of the Indian countryside proved that this claim was wildly untrue. In the village of Pipli in Haryana state, where police enforced a mass sterilization, the menfolk seemed like the inhabitants of a town in a gothic tale who had been stricken by some mysterious pestilence. All nodded in agreement as Gyani Ram, 40, told how he had been forced to undergo a vasectomy, and then was denied a certificate after officials discovered...