Word: naidu
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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...
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...
...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...
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...
...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...