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...married me to a girl. She doesn't cook. She is not house-proud." As brightly played by Shashi Kapoor, Prem faces life with all the artless perplexity of a man who has just seen his hat run over by a streetcar. His wife Indu (doe-eyed Leela Naidu) is disrespectful-when he criticizes her, she talks back. "They come like lambs and before long they are tigers at your throat," a friend explains. Finally, Prem hits on a plan: "I will send for my mother. She will teach you how to talk to your husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Domestication in Hindustan | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

Also picked for the mission are A. N. Deva, head of India's Socialist Party, which from the start has seen through Mao Tse-tung's agrarian false whiskers; Dr. Shanti Bhatnagar, who negotiated the recent U.S.-British oil-investment program in India; and Leilamani Naidu, who guided the Red Chinese good-will mission around India and was thereafter the pet hate of China's embassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Good Look | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...great day approached, Indians thanked their varied gods and rejoiced with special prayers, poems and songs. Poetess Sarojini Naidu set the theme in a radio message: "Oh lovely dawn of freedom that breaks in gold and purple over the ancient capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Oh Lovely Dawn | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Even Poetess Naidu found little warmth in Jinnah: "Somewhat formal and fastidious and a little aloof and imperious of manner. . . . Tall and stately, but thin to the point of emaciation, languid and luxurious of habit, Jinnah's attenuated form is the deceptive sheath of a spirit of exceptional vitality and endurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...plump Madame Naidu is still a member of the Congress Party's Working Committee, is considered India's topmost orator. She paints her toenails bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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