Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never a way to treat Dickie Mountbatten as if he were just another lieutenant. He had money of his own, and he had married the beautiful and exceedingly wealthy Edwina Ashley. It was a stormy union, marked by his many affairs and her infatuations, including one with Jawaharlal Nehru, but it lasted until Edwina's death in 1960. Stationed in Malta in the late '20s, the couple kept a 66-ton yacht in the harbor. Noel Coward, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford and an assortment of royals were their houseguests...
...decisive mandate reflected in part a longing in Gandhi's unsettled country for security and continuity. Constantly sounding the theme of national unity, the unassuming former Indian Airlines pilot faithfully hewed to the creed of democratic socialism propounded by his grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru and perpetuated by his mother. But while providing a sense of national stability, he offered the prospect of a modern new face for his country. "If it's a landslide," he said not long before the election, "we would have to interpret that as a mandate for change." Buoyed by his victory, the businesslike Gandhi is expected...
...were tentatively breaking away from traditional lifestyles; it gladdened the hearts of many of the women who had given up the ideas of college education and career, even while hoping that their daughters would someday realize their dreams. My mother did not speak to the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, but the brief moment of contact had left a lasting impression in her mind such that she was able to recollect the entire episode to me twenty odd years later, in a voice filled with admiration and pride...
Thirty seven years ago, Jawaharlal Nehru declared that India had made a "tryst with destiny," a pledge to "awaken to life and freedom." It is time for us to redeem that pledge once again. The belief in freedom and independence that was so much live on in the hearts and minds of the people of India. The lamp that was lit by Mahatma Gandhi and Jawarharlal Nehru must...
Dorothy Norman, a New York-based writer and photographer, first met Indira Gandhi, then 31, when she accompanied her father, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to the U.S. in 1949. The two women instantly struck up a friendship that they were to sustain over 35 years in India, the U.S. and while traveling together through Europe. In her book of memoirs, Encounters, to be published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Norman recalls her impressions of the Prime Minister's lonely and often sickly daughter and includes several affectionate, heartfelt letters that Indira wrote her during the '50s. Excerpts from those...