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...whose aggressive curiosity about my presence made him a likely informant for the repressive Burmese junta. No matter, the abbot had no time for fear. "This is a very famous monastery," he said, as I, the first foreign visitor in many months, nodded. "Important people have come here: Nehru, Indira Gandhi and, of course, the Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Omens Are Not Auspicious for the Burma's Junta | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

...Ironically, amidst the furor created by Jaswant Singh's pro-Jinnah remarks,the BJP top brass seem to have overlooked the fact that Singh lays the blame of Partition mostly on the Congress party and its leaders including Jawaharlal Nehru, India's much-admired first Prime Minister. But it also serves as a reminder that the BJP is the Congress' only real competitor at the national level, and the only likely foil to Congress' national dominance. For decades, the Congress party was the lone player in Indian national politics, a status quo which led to political stagnation. Until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India's Opposition Struggles With Past and Present | 8/26/2009 | See Source »

...Devi had already fallen in love with the jet-setting, polo-playing maharaja, and she soon made Jaipur her own. She started an élite girls' school, correctly surmising that it would help end the practice of purdah, and entered politics as a passionate opponent of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's socialist policies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gayatri Devi | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...used to help people who would otherwise have to seek training abroad. Paul recently worked with the staff of digital archive Tasveer Ghar, who had received funding from Heidelberg University to catalog her collection. Poddar went even further and opened his entire collection to students at Jawaharlal Nehru University, who then curated the foundation's latest show. "They're going to be the curators and critics of the future," he says. "They need a place where they can make mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buyers' Market | 6/22/2009 | See Source »

...Sikh migrants from all over Europe have gravitated there. "The gurdwara was lush with offerings from a nostalgic and large-hearted diaspora," says Ramesh Vinayak, who heads the Punjab edition of the national daily Hindustan Times, and who visited the Vienna gurdwara in 2005. (See photos of India's Nehru dynasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austrian Murder Sparks Protests in India | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

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