Word: jana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Party, having ruled India since 1947, is well entrenched, and Indira remains the country's most powerful-and popular-political figure Moreover, she benefits from the fact that the Janata Party, whose elements range from the right-wing Old Congress faction to the Socialists to the Hindu-first Jana Sangh, is united in almost nothing except its opposition to the existing government. Indeed, as one Janata spokesman confided to TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief, Lawrence Malkin, the call for a quick election may have been a blessing in disguise "because now we don't have time...
...overcome these difficulties, four groups-the right-wing Hindu Jana Sangh, the conservative Indian People's Party, the Socialist Party and the Old Congress Party-announced that they will form a united front and run a single slate of candidates to prevent fragmentation of the opposition vote. Said Desai: "We are interested only in getting a thumping majority." But the betting is that Indira Gandhi will once again do the thumping...
...Indian life with poignant realism. His famous trilogy, Song of the Road, The Unvanquished, and The World of Apu, has been applauded at film festivals all over the world, as has his more recent Distant Thunder. But Ray's movies are not popular in India. His new release, Jana Aranya, opened unheralded this spring in three obscure Calcutta movie houses...
...Prime Minister last week continued to defend her draconian measures by insisting that India had been endangered by a conspiracy. For the first time, she singled out a culprit-the Jana...
While Robert Kiely lectures on novels at Harvard, Jana Moravkova Kiely (M.A. in Biology, '59) teaches genetics and introductory biology across the Charles at Newton College. The Mastership goes officially to Mr. Kiely alone, and Mrs. Kiely will continue to teach, but she plans to take a large part in over-seeing the House. "We want to do it together," he says...