Word: kerala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis. Government proscriptions against "unauthorized, irresponsible or demoralizing news items" last week were extended from articles and editorials to cartoons, photos and even advertisements. This further muzzling of the press may have been in response to a few cases of surreptitious sniping at the government's measures; in Kerala, for example, one paper ran a cartoon depicting Mrs. Gandhi dressed as Louis XIV with a caption reading "I am India." The censors also closely monitored the dispatches of foreign newsmen. Last week the government summarily expelled Washington Post Correspondent Lewis M. Simons, who had stirred official ire by reporting...
...nature, of course, it's a very private sort of question. It must be accompanied by education and a higher standard of living to make it work. We have had a big success in the cities but not in the villages. We had a little setback in Kerala, where there is a large number of Catholics, when the Pope made his [birth control] statement, which was unhelpful...
...move had been more or less forced upon him. As Karunanidhi metaphorically put it, the state had become "a gem of camphor surviving unlit in the midst of the flaming tongues of a hoop of fire"-meaning that thirsty Tamils had only to drive to adjoining Pondicherry, Mysore, Kerala or Andhra Pradesh for a drink. There was also an overriding economic reason for repeal. The state faces an $80 million budget deficit. Toddy will bring in an estimated $35 million from taxes and licenses...
...superlatives, including elections. Next week some 270 million people, the largest free electorate in the world, will be eligible to vote as the nation chooses a new, 515-seat Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament. The voting will continue for ten days, and in one state alone (Kerala), 60,000 people will be needed to count ballots...
...fast-growing Jana Sangh, which has a strong rural base in the northern Hindi-speaking states. Often accused of pro-Hindu chauvinism, the anti-Moslem Jana Sangh is particularly angry with Indira for having cooperated with the local branch of the Moslem League in last year's Kerala state elections. Mrs. Gandhi, in turn, has denounced the Jana Sangh's policies as "fascist...