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...greater autonomy from the central government in New Delhi. But even before the Indian army's bloody 1984 invasion of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhdom's holiest shrine, an extremist minority had agitated violently for the creation of an independent state. Shortly after the temple assault, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Rajiv's mother, was gunned down by her Sikh bodyguards...
...Bush is headed,” Welch said. Some students at the event said they were impressed with the candidate. “State Senator Welch was inspiring because of his ability to focus clearly on the concrete issues and outline definitive proposals,” Harvard Dems member Indira Phukan ’09 said...
...Dean told a packed audience in Austin Hall at HLS, “Don’t let anybody tell you Democrats don’t have a message” to audience applause, according to Kolic. “He was very decisive,” said Indira Phukan ’09. “He didn’t hesitate to criticize the Republicans, but he didn’t hesitate to criticize the Democrats either.” Phukan said that while many in the audience were hoping for insider comments on potential candidates...
...impact on how students are randomly assigned to the houses,” McIntosh wrote in an e-mail.Several freshmen said they were ambivalent about the advantages of neighborhood blocking. “I’m not even getting into linking because blocking is so stressful,” Indira Phukan ’09 said. “It’s such a struggle to figure out a group.”“The neighborhooding did help a lot,” Kyra A Hill ’09 said, but added that it was painful...
...center of the roaming anthropologist's new collection of essays, Incendiary Circumstances. The title comes from a piece in which Ghosh, sitting at his desk in Delhi, working on his first novel, in 1984, suddenly sees the tranquil world around him go up in flames in the wake of Indira Gandhi's assassination. Hours before, he was just another student and aspiring author, hovering over his notebook in a part of Delhi called Defence Colony; overnight, he becomes an activist of sorts, going out into the streets to shout Gandhian slogans with the other everyday citizens trying to quell...