Word: nehru
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Spending time in the presence of Sir Isaiah Berlin was daunting for several reasons. Here was a man who was known and admired by a Who's Who of the 20th century: Einstein, Freud, Picasso, Churchill, Nehru. And then there was his conversation, which tumbled forth with amazing rapidity--he was once clocked at 400 words a minute--all of it gargled through the remaining traces of his childhood Latvian. When British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan proposed Berlin for knighthood in 1957, the PM suggested that the honor might be deserved "for talking...
...city she served for a half-century, broke through police barricades to run beside the carriage that bore her to her funeral. The same carriage bore the body of Mahatma Gandhi after he was assassinated in 1948. It also ferried that of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, after his death in 1964. Mother would have preferred something simpler...
...expatriate, I am hurt to see the politics of India sinking ever deeper into a quagmire of corruption and caste rivalry. The situation today is significantly different from the time when Nehru said, "We made a tryst with destiny." INDRAJIT RAY Guelph...
DIED. DOROTHY NORMAN, 92, Renaissance-woman photographer, writer and liberal activist who had a relationship with Alfred Stieglitz and was the subject of many of his photos; in East Hampton, New York. Among her many works: a Stieglitz biography and a book on India's Jawaharlal Nehru...
...Gandhi wedding in India is even more unwieldy than a Kennedy wedding in the U.S.--after all, nobody rocked up to that island off Georgia and claimed she was already married to John Jr. But when PRIYANKA GANDHI, whose father Rajiv, grandmother Indira and great-grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru were all Indian Prime Ministers, announced she would marry ROBERT VADRA, an exporter of costume jewelry and "a commoner," as the local press was quick to note, she had to fend off a few extra would-be suitors. A man named Ramakrishna Gowd went to court insisting he was married...