Word: padayatra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gandhi was in this bleak corner of impoverished Uttar Pradesh state for a padayatra, the journey on foot made famous 25 years ago by Vinobha Bhave, who for years walked the length and breadth of India asking people to give up one-tenth of their land to the landless. A padayatra has become the customary way for leaders to make contact with their people. In 1959 Mrs. Gandhi walked for four days through her father Jawaharlal Nehru's Allahabad constituency. This year Indira, 58, reduced her padayatra to a mile-long, 50-min. walk through the single village...
More a publicity gesture than a genuine effort to get in touch with the masses, last week's padayatra nonetheless brought Mrs. Gandhi face to face with India's circumstances. "Do you go to school?" she asked one girl. The answer: No, because there is no high school in Hillaur. Uttar Pradesh's education minister, who accompanied Mrs. Gandhi, announced that Hillaur will not only get a school but also a small hospital...
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