Word: pattabhi
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...Pattabhi Jois, who taught Natascha here, was a disciple of Krishnamacharya, whose style he took to the world. But she also studied with Jois's student B.N.S. Iyengar, who moved away from his guru's rigidly-defined sequence of postures towards greater emphasis on the spiritual. "If anyone asks me for advice, I suggest Jois for flexibility, and Iyengar for concentration," she says, while demonstrating a split and touching her forehead to the ground as nonchalantly as a cat stretching after...
...boys & girls marching to seven brass bands and gaily decked out in the hues of the Dominion of India's tricolor: green, white and orange. At the end, in a silver chariot drawn by four snow-white pedigreed bullocks with green painted horns, came mountainous Congress President Bhogarazu Pattabhi Sitaramayya, smothered in marigold garlands and beaming like the grand marshal of a St. Patrick's Day Parade on Fifth Avenue...
...issue: until Hindu and Moslem agreed, they could scarcely expect to agree with Britain. Probably the compromise which neither side was now willing to accept might look more feasible once the electorate had pronounced on Pakistan. Then Indians might find more truth than poetry in the words of Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, the Congress Party's official historian'."Differences in India are hyphens that unite, not dashes that divide...
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