Word: lalita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silver Soviet Aeroflot IL-18 airliner for the 3½-hour flight to a mourning New Delhi and reunion with Shastri's grief-stricken family. As Indian generals carried the flag-covered body into his home at 10 Janpath (People's Way), Shastri's wife Lalita threw herself on her dead husband and kissed his face. "Shastriji, you have left me alone!" she wailed...
Resting on a bed of flowers, Shastri was placed in the portico of his residence for public view. All through the night, as thousands of Indians filed past in a final tribute, Lalita stayed by her husband, frequently reaching out to stroke his face, and sometimes, overcome by weariness, resting her head for a moment on his pillow. The next day Shastri's body was lifted onto a gun carriage for the final five-mile drive through the dusty city to the Jumna, a tributary of the sacred Ganges...