Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Four Indian musicians, sitting crosslegged and stocking-footed on an oriental rug in Paine Hall, yesterday presented a program as part of the Quadrangle Spring Arts Festival...
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, dressed in a crisp sari, stood in the scorching early summer heat on the north Indian plain and asked that question dozens of times in Hillaur, a small village in her parliamentary constituency of Rae Bareli. The country around her told the answer: acre after acre of sere, treeless, wind-whipped fields, most of which are worked by harijans (untouchables) who sharecrop but do not own the land. Long miles of highway are untarred. Few people can afford the 300 rupees ($33) needed to wire their homes for minimum lighting provided by two light bulbs. Electric...
...name comes from a Paiute Indian word meaning "Mountain of Many People...
...about their childhood in India. Jon, 70, has just produced her tenth novel; Rumer, 69, her 15th. Rumer has also written poetry, stories and children's books. In addition, the Goddens have collaborated on two volumes: Shiva's Pigeons (1972) and the highly acclaimed Two Under the Indian Sun (1966), a memoir of the years spent among the textures and atmospheres of India past. "If we children grew up with a sense of space in us," they recall, "it was from that...
...they are chaperones to his Eurasian fiancee. At first the book evokes the formal, secluded India of the diplomats: banks of flow ers, servants, gardeners, even a boy to beat dew from the lawn. It is a world of riding, parties and ease. Then Una and Ravi, a young Indian poet, fall in love - and the India of poverty, distances, dust, stenches, desperate class divisions, overcrowding, sacred rivers, rises from the mist...