Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million Indians stood in line to cast their ballot in the general elections held from April 27 to May 7. Now that virtually all their votes have been counted, it is clear enough what most Indians were against: the Congress Party, the political juggernaut of Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru that has ruled India for all but four years since 1947, when the country gained independence from Britain. Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao is out, and the party, burdened with an image of corruption and lassitude, lost almost half its seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament...
...been a cuckoo bird, I figured that the discrepancy might be explained by the human tendency to remember what we wish we had done rather than what we did. It's possible that a survey taken now among baby boomers would indicate that almost none of them wore either Nehru jackets or bell-bottom blue jeans in the late...
Members are no longer bound by the old suit-collar-and tie-dress code: colorful, flowing African robes now stand out among the charcoal and the pinstripes, and one white A.N.C. member has been seen sporting a Nehru jacket. The A.N.C.'s Frene Ginwala, an Indian lawyer who is the nation's first female Speaker, took her seat last week in a sari rather than the usual House of Lords-style robe and trimmings...
...tertiary syphilis. The last works that hold some spark of visual life are Johnson's religious subjects, such as the beautiful tempera drawing Ezekiel Saw the Wheel (circa 1942-43). After the war he began a series of paintings of Fighters for Freedom: political figures (Chiang Kai-shek, Churchill, Nehru and others) and icons of black history, such as Nat Turner hanged on a tree. They are mostly feeble, lacking the iconic power and brilliantly felt color of the earlier work. By 1946, for all intents, Johnson's life as an artist was over. He made a return trip...
...unusually enlightened man who preached women's equality, a socialist and a founder of the P.L.O. -- who profoundly defined her outlook. "Be daring," he told Hanan, "in the pursuit of the right." He made his children learn English from babyhood. Early on, he gave Hanan a copy of Nehru's diary, and she remembers the impact to this day: "I discovered the power of words...