Word: krishna
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...India's fellow-traveling Ambassador Krishna Menon this week came out of Peking, after 30 hours of talks with Chou and Mao Tse-tung, full of feeling that peace was in the air: "The talks were very useful. We can look forward with hope." He added that he thought Red China would release the 15 imprisoned U.S. airmen "very soon," and confidently predicted that U.S.-Red China talks would be set up within 60 days...
...their midst, blew conch shells and chanted mantras before a large statue of Gauri, wife of the Lord Shiva, god of creation and destruction. Then, in solemn silence, the husbands and wives bathed in the river and sat down in pairs, face to face. Basing their action on Lord Krishna's scriptures, the wives washed their husbands' feet and drank a few drops of the washing water. They made floral offerings to their husbands and walked respectfully round them. They laid their heads on their husbands' feet and prayed: "You are Brahma [Creator], You are Vishnu [Preserver...
Grimly, Nehru struggled to get the balky delegates back under control. He arranged gatherings and dinners for selected delegates to meet Chou. His chief foreign adviser, Krishna Menon, acted as a kind of floor manager for Chou. Gaunt and spectral in his flowing white robes, Menon swooped from delegate to delegate like a chicken hawk over a smorgasbord, crying: "Isn't he a wonderful man?" But the delegates refused to be herded...
Nehru, his carefully fostered illusions of coexistence rudely shattered, was furious. "Bloody fool," spluttered Krishna Menon. Demanded Nehru: "Why didn't you ask me before you did a thing like this?" Retorted Sir John: "Do you ask me for permission before you make a move?" Scowling, China's Chou rose and demanded an opportunity to reply...
...Communists had lost ground especially among Andhra's farmers, tenants and literate white-collar workers, who had once been disposed to support them. "I was attracted to Communism," said Krishna Rao, a bank clerk, "because the Reds supported our wage demands and condemned bankers. I participated in meetings where people shouted 'Death to Capitalists,' but I was shocked when I found out that my own household help was shouting 'Death to Exploiters of Toiling Domestic Servants...