Word: narayan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because of recent political agitation in India's Bihar state, a force of at least 1,000 security men was present last week when the Indian Minister for Railways, Lalit Narayan Mishra, 51, formally opened a new 36-mile-long rail line from Samastipur to Muzaffarpur. Mishra had just finished his remarks and was stepping down from the dais when a time bomb exploded, ripping the dais to pieces and wounding Mishra as well as 24 bystanders (four of whom later died). Mishra himself died the following day during emergency surgery...
...import licenses during his term as Minister for Foreign Trade (1970-73). The agitation in Bihar has been aimed at unseating a state government that Mishra, himself a Bihari, had strongly backed. The movement has been led by one of India's most respected political leaders, Jayaprakash Narayan, 72, a founder of the Socialist Party and one of the last of Gandhi's immediate disciples. Narayan has been pressing for new elections in Bihar as a way of fighting political corruption there. The New Delhi government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has opposed these efforts-partly because...
...possibility of such drastic repercussions has hardly made the striking railwaymen popular. Nonetheless, many Indians were outraged when Railway Minister Lalit Narayan Mishra, 51, precipitately arrested George Fernandes, 43, a Socialist from Goa who is president of the All India Railwaymen's Federation, and other union leaders while they were in the midst of negotiations. One of the unionists died in jail of a heart attack. Mishra claimed authority for his harsh action under India's Maintenance of Internal Security Act, which allows indefinite detention. Opposition forces in Parliament, including the pro-Moscow Communists who usually support Indira...
...refugees is Narayan Mahadev Thanage, 30, who lives with his wife and daughter in one of the jhuggis adjacent to the new Bombay slaughterhouse. He was forced to leave his five-acre farm in Ahmednagar District 125 miles from Bombay, one of the areas worst affected by the drought. In a good year, he cleared 3,000 rupees ($410) over and above the cost of supporting his family. "In my village there aren't enough people left to make a good funeral," he says. "Maybe there are 100, and they are mostly old. The schools and factories are closed...
...next morning, before a crowd of 10,000, Madho Singh mounted the raised public platform, placed his weapon at the feet of Narayan and asked the crowd for forgiveness. His mustache was gone and so was the police uniform. Then he touched the feet of the police chief, and surrendered. At the end of the day, 167 dacoits were in jail. Said Narayan: "They are all like children...