Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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India's reputation as "the world's largest democracy" perished abruptly on June 26, 1975, when Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the imperious daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, imposed a "state of emergency," curtailed civil liberties and imprisoned tens of thousands of people, including hundreds of her political opponents. But if Indian democracy had been destroyed in a single night, it was miraculously reborn only 21 months later when Mrs. Gandhi and her Congress Party were overwhelmingly defeated at the polls...
...saying, "India is Indira and Indira is India." It is clear that she came to believe it too. But as a dictator she was hopelessly flawed, a lonely woman who turned more and more to her own family, particularly her zealous younger son Sanjay. "She could not escape her Nehru heritage," writes Mehta, "including her Nehru conscience." Incredibly, she did not realize, or perhaps refused to believe, the extent to which the enforced sterilization campaign and the behavior of petty officials had inflamed North India. And so she made the political mistake of her life, calling the elections that summoned...
What did Red Sox color man Ken Harrelson do with all his Nehru jackets after they went out of style...
...person to 80 million souls so far, will invade the very citadel of sin, Las Vegas, the first week in February. At age 59, the grand old man of Evangelicalism is as popular and active as ever. Last week he brought the Gospel to 75,000 people at Nehru Stadium in Madras, India. About 1,500 accepted his invitation to "come forward saying 'Yes' to Jesus Christ." Graham's Minneapolis office now receives $28.7 million a year from the 8 million apostles on its mailing list...
...reasons to be upset. The company was invited to set up an accounting-machine plant in Bombay in 1951 by Jawaharlal Nehru; he believed India could assert its independence only by building up its own industries, but felt that this could best be accomplished if fledgling Indian firms operated in tandem with foreign companies. Under the leadership of Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi, the government pushed the notion of industrial nationalism much further. Indian officials assert that India's struggling state-owned Computer Maintenance Corp. could service the IBM equipment in the country without difficulty; after all, that...