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Wearing flowing orange robes they file through the Square, chanting "Hare Krishna" and handing out cards. They are members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, founded in 1965 by A.C. Bhanktivedanta Swami...
...irreconcilable foes last week made strong political comebacks. The two-V. K. Krishna Menon and S. K. Patil-won smashing victories in by-elections to the Lok Sabha, India's House of Commons. Both seem eager to renew old battles, with Menon rallying the Indian left and Patil the Indian right...
Lean, falcon-faced Krishna Menon, 73, has traveled the greater distance in making his return to politics. Originally, Menon's position at the top depended on his longtime friendship with Jawaharlal Nehru. It was not enough, however, to save his job as Defense Minister in 1962, following the rout of Indian troops by the Chinese on the Himalayan border. Menon remained in the Lok Sabha until 1967, when Patil -the party boss in Bombay-managed to withhold Congress Party endorsement from Menon, who was running for his old seat in North Bombay. Menon then ran as an independent...
...Shiv Sena, formed in 1966 by a hot-tempered political cartoonist named Bal Thackeray.* A fierce anti-Communist who admits to an admiration for Adolf Hitler's nation-building abilities, Thackeray emerged as a political force in 1967, when he and his followers engineered the defeat of Krishna Menon's bid for re-election to Parliament. Since that time, Thackeray has fought hard to obtain a better break for the natives of Maharashtra State, of which Bombay is the capital; in particular, he worked to get more white-collar jobs for them, charging that outsiders from the neighboring...
...bahana, or mount, of Shashti, the Bengalese goddess of fecundity. Brightly colored Kalighat paintings of cats were made by street painters for sale to pilgrims to Calcutta's Temple of Kali. One of the most impressive objects is a brass figurine from Orissa; it shows the hero Krishna trying to deceive one of his admirers by assuming the head of a peacock, the body of a tiger, the hump of a camel, one leg of an elephant, one leg of a horse, and one hand of a girl holding a flower. The devotee, says the legend, saw through...