Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ayub would like nothing better than to pick up the mantle of leadership in nonaligned Asia, which has been unclaimed since India's lawaharlal Nehru died. His Peking visit-in addition to gaining further Chinese support against India-was aimed at building that image. And in the next few weeks, the would-be "honest broker" hopes to boost it further: on the Ayub agenda are trips to Moscow and Washington...
Next day Madras was quiet, but violence flared in Bengal and the former French colony of Pondicherry. Indira Gandhi, daughter of the late Jawaharlal Nehru, said that Shastri was ready to compromise, and the Law Ministry was reportedly preparing a draft proposal for presentation next week to the chief ministers of India's 16 states. That would not necessarily end Shastri's troubles. Hindi fanatics might well generate an even more violent whirlwind if their dream of language supremacy is shattered...
Three years ago, when she visited New Delhi, Jackie Kennedy, 35, stayed with Indira Gandhi, 47, daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru. Now it was Jackie's turn to welcome Mrs. Gandhi. In Manhattan's boxed-glass Union Carbide Building, they inaugurated a photographic government exhibit, "Nehru, His Life and Times," before a black-tie bazaar of 1,700 notables, including the U.N. Secretary-General, U.S. Vice President, New York Governor, both New York Senators, and five former ambassadors to India...
...Hindi Imperialism." Though spoken by more Indians than any other language, Hindi covers less than half the populace and is the mother tongue of only four states-Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh (Nehru's as well as Prime Minister Shastri's home). The officialization of Hindi has long been fought by non-Hindi regions, chiefly four southern states to which Hindi is as foreign as Tex-Mex; they are Madras (which speaks Tamil), Andhra Pradesh (Telu-gu), Kerala (Malayalam) and Mysore (Kannada). Anti-Hindis accuse the Hindis of being out for political gain. In any case...
...there are a few moments when he cannot be absolutely sure that he himself is not being mocked. Significantly, the heaviest and most grateful applause of the evening is given to Rao, an Indian girl whose whole act consists of clever finger shadows of animals and images of Khrushchev, Nehru and De Gaulle...