Word: nehru
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...stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom." So declared Jawaharlal Nehru in his speech on the eve of his nation's independence from Britain. In New Delhi the next day, the celebrating crowd was so huge that Nehru, the new Prime Minister, had to fight his way to the grandstand, at one point knocking off the turban of a man who had gotten in his way. He was worried for the safety of his friends, the last British viceroy Lord Mountbatten, who was a cousin of England's monarch, and his wife...
...moot by the time the screaming started over the new borders. No preparations were therefore made to control the inevitable havoc. The result was a bloody birthday gift to newborn India and Pakistan as millions of people were uprooted amid massacres and murder. "I am sick with horror," Nehru would write his friend Mountbatten after visiting one affected area. More horror was to come: refugee camps everywhere and, eventually, war with Pakistan over Kashmir, an enmity, potent as nuclear bombs, that lasts to this day. Five months after independence, the idealism of the struggle for freedom was shattered when...
Galbraith says that one of the most valuable experiences of his life was the time he spent during the presidency of John F. Kennedy ’40 as ambassador to India. He tells the story of how he was welcomed to India by then-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. “He greeted me, when I presented my credentials, as no ambassador in history,” Galbraith says. “He said, ‘I welcome you as ambassador, but I hope that this will not prevent you from being my economic adviser...
...Taraf de Haïdouks grew up in the same small Romanian village, and all come from musician families where grandfather, father and son were raised to play. Saban Bajramovic, 66, a gypsy music legend in Serbia who once played for Josip Broz Tito and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, was imprisoned for desertion from the military and made that experience the inspiration for his life's work. A press statement introducing his latest album observes, in all seriousness: "He can't say himself how many times he has been married since his return from prison, and God alone knows...
...overwhel-mingly Muslim region, perhaps Koul should have known better. As her blessed childhood unfolds, she catches glimpses of the fire to come?a half-heard chant of "Long live Pakistan," Muslim boys smiling as they burn a tiny effigy of India's Hindu Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Koul leaves to raise a family in the U.S. just as Kashmir plunges into crisis. And she can only watch as it blows apart. But this is not meant to be a political treatise; it's a paean to the past. Koul succeeds through sensuous detail in summoning the vanished Kashmir...