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...dynamism to .#11 it permanently. Conservatives favor Finance Minister Morarji Desai, a dogged free-enterpriser in a statist Cabinet and a stern ascetic who once gave up conjugal relations with his wife for 20 years. But Desai's austerity programs have not made him popular. Socialist Leader Jayaprakash Narayan is, next to Nehru, the most pop- ular man in India, but his simple syrup solutions for complex problems have hurt his reputation - and besides, Congress Party leaders can hardly be expected to favor the man who leads the opposition...
...taxidermist, a man who is physically powerful and morally indifferent. He moves in on the printer, pays no rent, entertains the town whores, and laughs his unpaid, gentle landlord into inconsequence. Just when the reader is beginning to ask why the mild printer has to take all this, Author Narayan-himself a Hindu, a vegetarian, and a small, mild fellow-shows that the meek have their own kind of strength...
...this hand-wringing among those they had expected to point the way for them, the Africans scratched their heads and exclaimed that they only wanted some cars and some irrigation ditches and some good technical ideas from the gloomy Westerners. With a few exceptions, like India's Jayaprakash Narayan, who demanded a government of "direct participation" beyond either democracy or totalitarianism, the Asians and Africans had only one concept of freedom-the very European-invented concept of national freedom that the Europeans now deplored. After hearing the Westerners' fiercely despairing selfcriticism, one inquiring African asked: "Why should your...
Storm & Thunder. But if much of the Indian press seemed prepared to write off Tibet as a lost cause, India still had a voice and a conscience. Speaking in Delhi, strong-minded Jayaprakash Narayan, 56 (TIME, July 6). who was long considered Nehru's heir, ripped away the pretense that the Dalai Lama is in India for any reason except "to fight for his country and his people. Any patriot in his position would have done the same thing. Will you please imagine what would have happened if Nehru at the age of 25 had found himself...
...questioner wanted to know if it was not true that the Chinese Reds were introducing necessary land reforms in feudal Tibet. Yes. said Narayan, and, in the days of empire, the British had introduced valuable reforms in India-railways, telegraphs, administration-"so we should have welcomed them in our country, but we didn't. That is really an amazing question for an Indian...