Word: lucknow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were called Eurasians first and officers afterwards were looked on by _ the Brits as upstarts. The Indians called us snobs." Strangers in their own skins, exiles in their own country, the half-castes yearn for some homeland that does not exist. Enter " Lionel, 20, banished from Lucknow because of an affair with a Hindu girl. The young bachelor withdraws into lofty isolation. "He was laughing at us for our old ways, our old clothes, our games, our silly picnics, and our drunkenness," thinks Natalie, Augden's wife, as she watches Lionel keeping his distance. But Lionel...
...realized in the closing days of the campaign that Congress was in trouble. Opposition rallies were jammed, while Prime Minister's audiences were embarrassingly apathetic. Three times during a rally at Varanasi, the chairman called for a cheer for Indira, and three times the crowd shouted no. In Lucknow, women in the front of the audience started to leave ten minutes after Mrs. Gandhi began to speak. Tired of news broadcasts on the government-run All India Radio, which ignored the opposition's campaign and burbled endlessly about New Delhi's accomplishments, many Indians began to call...
Forced Retreat. Not one to accept desanctification without a struggle, the prodigal son decided to return to India for the first time in two years for a showdown with his mother and brother. He scheduled a mass rally last week in the city of Lucknow, a Divine Light stronghold in northern India, but was forced to retreat when local officials refused permission for the meeting. So the guru called a press conference and announced that he would deal with his mother and his brother through a lawsuit. After all, he reasoned, nobody can oust the Lord...