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India has always felt somewhat guilty about its Naga war, especially since Gandhi himself had promised the hill people independence if they wanted it. Last year Nehru gave in to the extent of creating Nagaland state, with its capital at Kohima. In February, a Baptist convention proposed that a three-man committee consisting of two Indians and Britain's champion of the underdog, the Rev. Michael Scott, explore the prospects of talks with the rebels. The Naga leader, Angami Zapu Phizo, who is known to his followers as "The One," and who lives in exile in London, was promised...
...member of the All India Congress, will participate this Wednesday in the first of six International Seminars to be held throughout the summer. Gafoor Noorani, an advocate of the Bombay High Court, and Sunanda Kisor Datta-Ray, assistant editor of The Statesman, will join Ramachandran in evaluating "India after Nehru" in Burr...
...Prime Minister, Shastri will continue to live in his small bungalow at 1 Motilal Nehru Place (a street named for Nehru's father), although living quarters for his family and his many relatives will be expanded by taking over a bungalow next door. Nehru's white-walled residence will probably become a museum. Shastri was garlanded by visitors on his wide lawn and posed for pictures with his grandson Kenny, riding on his shoulders. The child had been called Kennedy from birth in honor of the late U.S. President, but after the Dallas assassination the family decided...
...problems, Shastri seems to be off to a fair start. His opponents in the Congress Party, ranging from Morarji Desai on the right to Krishna Menon on the left, are likely to give him several months' grace before they start rocking the boat. And after 17 years of Nehru's aristocratic rule, the mass of the Indian people appear to regard Shastri as representing a return to the homey, close-to-the-soil leadership of Gandhi...
...This urn was filled with charred pieces identified as bone, while seven smaller urns contained all other ashes, those of Nehru's body as well as the wooden funeral pyre...