Word: narayan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week, Nathuram Vinayak Godse, the young fanatic who shot Gandhi (TIME, Feb. 9, 1948), drank his last cup of prison coffee. While jailers waited, Godse and his accomplice, Narayan Dattatraya Apte, recited from the Hindu Holy Writ, the Bhagavad-Gita ("Fight, and have no fear. The foe is yours to conquer"). They walked to the scaffold, clutching their Gitas between the palms of their tied hands...
...plan was devised last March. Communist delegates attended a "Southeast Asia Youth Conference" in Calcutta. A planeload of experts from Moscow came to give them their orders. Representing Burma was stout, 30-year-old Hari Narayan Goshal. From Malaya came Chinese Communist Lee Soong and from Australia, Laurence Sharkey, who flew back to Singapore with Lee for a two-week stay after the conference...
...Ramendra Narayan Roy, Kumar (Prince) of Bhowal, was the despair of his tutors. When the Kumar was 25 he was-in the opinion of a learned judge reviewing his life years later-an "unlettered oaf who spent his days with stable boys and his nights with harlots...
...loudest reverberations came from India. Cried Sir Syed Raza Ali, who spent a term in South Africa as India's Agent-General : "Repressive, offensive, objectionable." Said Dr. Narayan Bhaskar Khare, member of the Viceroy's Council in New Delhi: "I wish India was in a position to declare war on South Africa here and now. If I had been able to do so, I would have lost no time in taking an army there...