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...Gandhi once said, "is a poem of pity." Last week India's sacred animal brought not pity but violence to the very doorstep of government. The occasion was a rally of 125,000 Hindus, who had come from all over India to pressure the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi into enacting a national ban on cattle slaughter. Converging on a traffic circle near Parliament, the demonstrators at first listened peacefully to speeches. Then a sadhu (Hindu holy man), a member of Parliament, sprang onto the speaker's stand. He had just been ushered...
...Parliament convened last week for the final session before next February's national elections, six no-confidence measures were introduced against Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her government by opposition parties, on everything from the stagnating economic situation to "self-righteous" foreign policy. Cried Minoo Masani, leader of the conservative Swatantra Party: "For God's sake, go while there is still some administration and order left! Do not destroy the country before...
...some grumbling about the lady Prime Minister. Some Congress members blamed her tendency to capitulate in the face of public demonstrations for encouraging pressure groups to bully the government. When the goldsmiths took to the streets last August to protest against government control of the gold content in jewelry, Indira caved in and relaxed official supervision. Similarly, last week she gave in to the demands of a Hindu sect that cow slaughter be banned by announcing that the government intends to proscribe the killing of cows in those areas of India directly administered by the federal government...
...grumbling also reflected deep splits within the party and the fact that some party leaders are waiting for Indira to stumble so that they themselves can make a bid for power...
...frequently careless and incompetent. Academic standards are often pitifully low. Worst of all, because of India's struggling economy, students despair of getting decent jobs once they graduate. It is the more urgent problem of trying to build the economy that prevents the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from building new educational facilities. Mrs. Gandhi has taken a conciliatory attitude toward the students-which many Indians feel will only breed new outbreaks of violence...