Word: kali
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...Kali Reincarnate. The conflicting ideologies of the coalition members have made the alliance an uneasy one, at best. Bitter enemies sometimes found themselves unwilling partners. In south Bombay, for instance, Opposition Congress Party Boss S.K. Patil was forced to seek election in a neighboring state so that his arch foe, Samyukta Socialist George Fernandes, could...
...Vatican in 1950 as a new religious community. In 1952, the Missionaries of Charity -dressed in simple white, blue-bordered saris-won permission from Calcutta's authorities to set up a home for the dying destitute in a pilgrim hostel at the gate of a temple of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction...
...Australia-as well as the one in Rome. As for Mother Teresa herself, who at 60 is back in India and is an Indian citizen, she still spends much of her time working the orders regular 16-hour day among the dying at the gate of the temple of Kali...
...Amritsar, where elders of the Akali Dal Party released the fasting Sant Fateh Singh from his suicide vow. "My pledge has been fulfilled," murmured the Sant, accepting a glass of orange juice from the temple's head priest. And Chandigarh, named after Chandi, the North Indian equivalent of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, has lived up to its name...
...fellow Congress Party members has likened Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction. Last week that description must have seemed terrifyingly apt to the party's right-wing leaders, known collectively as the Syndicate. In a power struggle; that may yet tear the party asunder 'and pose a grave threat to India's fragile democracy, Mrs. Gandhi directly challenged the Syndicate and won a dramatic victory...