Word: narayan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN--a disciple of the father of Indian independence, the late Mahatma Gandhi, Narayan has long been a national folk hero in India. Affectionately known there as J.P., Narayan has helped organize four national parties under the banner of the Janata [People's] Party in opposition to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi...
Last week Jayaprakash Narayan, a long time force in Indian politics, addressed a rally of 200,000 supporters at a fairground outside New Delhi. Speaking from a reclining position because of an illness contracted during his recent stay in prison, the frail 74-year-old statesman worked the crowd into a chaotic frenzy with his low-key call for the defeat of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in next month's parliamentary elections. As he spoke quietly but passionately about the brutal repression and loss of political freedom under Gandhi's rule, Narayan was frequently interrupted with wild cries of "Long...
Both actions were bitterly criticized by opponents of the government. Informed of the postponed elections, ailing Opposition Leader J.P. Narayan had a wry, two-word response: "For eternity." Opposition Members of Parliament called the constitutional amendments nothing less than a "blueprint for dictatorship." Most of them boycotted the special legislative session and protested the fact that at least 30 opposition M.P.s are still being held in "preventive" detention...
...shoulder, and a toothy laugh. Sizwe Banzi and The Island are political plays about the horror of apartheid, but they are much more than that; the world they create is a world of futility, reminiscent of novels about India, by Indian writers writing in English, such as Narayan and U.S. Naipal. Like Naipal's Mr. Stone, Styles has the distinctive resigned sensibility of a colonized people, an intelligent people who know their supposed masters are either insecure Orwellian sahibs or bigotted idiots, but who put up with them, along with the other discomforts of the world, with a shrug...
...decided to try to do the same thing in Bihar, his home state. The demonstrations led to riots, and Mrs. Gandhi appealed to J.P. to call them off. He refused. When Railways Minister Lalit Mishra was assassinated on a visit to Bihar last January, the Congress Party accused Narayan of unleashing a "cult of violence, intimidation and coercion...