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...loves clowning: one Halloween he festooned his tall gaunt frame with animal hair stuck on with flour paste, and roamed Chadds Ford like a bundle of Hydes. When he dresses up for company, he dons a black Amish-elder's jacket that makes him look like Nehru in mourning...
...Nizam College for its co-educational system and proximity to the largest cricket stadium in Hyderabad, Banaji says she found the cosmopolitan social and academic environment a liberating experience. Her ambition of becoming a secretary aborted, she went on to pursue an M.Phil/Ph.D. in general psychology at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi...
...subject has proved so daunting. He was definitely what we would call a control freak in every aspect of his life. There is so much about this man—love affairs, politics, [and] you have his willingness to work with Lenin, Mussolini, Petain, de Gaulle, Nehru, and the American government in the 1930s. There are so many facets to Le Corbusier and at the same time a private life that is very hard for people to understand. I just think biographers didn’t know where to begin. THC: On the note of art and politics...
...Similarly, many new leaders of the developing nations that emerged from colonial empires in the mid-20th century believed their poverty was rooted in free markets and leaned toward state control. In India, for example, Jawaharlal Nehru, its first Prime Minister, saw imperialism as an outgrowth of free capitalism; only the state, he figured, could be entrusted to improve the livelihoods of the poor. The result was the bizarre License Raj, a bewildering maze of regulation that hamstrung private enterprise. By 1990, the system had produced outdated, uncompetitive companies and a near bankrupt government. India only started to boom once...
...Badarpur village, with its dusty, pungent streets and tumbledown tenements, is far removed from the confident affluence of Nehru Place. Inside a tiny, cluttered room lit by a single tube-light, nine girls are waiting for their bhaiyya, - 'older brother' in Hindi. An all-girl class is rare; parents who are unable to afford education for their children usually shelve daughters' education first. According to UN figures, 42 million children between the ages of 6 and 14 are not in school in India. The national literacy rate of girls over seven years is 54%, compared to 75% for boys...