Word: pradesh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposition is in the state assemblies (see map). In Rajasthan, the Swatantra and Jana Sangh could topple the Congress leadership, and in West Bengal a leftist front could overthrow Congress. In the Punjab a Sikh separate language party threatens Congress for control of the Assembly. In Mysore, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, Congress may lose some seats. In Parliament its victory is beyond question, though the opposition parties may win as many as 200 of the 494 seats...
...Even in its latest edition, Guinness is out of date. At last report, Masudiya Din had moved to Uttar Pradesh, and his mustache had grown until it stretched 8½ft. from...
...Dutt, who works a 13-hour day, now has $153 million worth of contracts, has twice moved his offices into larger quarters. Unlike many Indian businessmen, who will hire only natives of their own state, Dutt has collected 50 crack engineers from Punjab, Bengal, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. Says he, in words that could have come from Harry Kuljian himself: "If you have the ability, Kuljian will...
...India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, keeping in anxious touch with developments while making a tour of Uttar Pradesh, the fast-and the whole Sikh effort-presented a number of galling ironies. In the first place, fasting as a political weapon was developed by Nehru's nationalist mentor, Mahatma Gandhi, but is now regarded by New Delhi as in bad taste. Secondly, to justify keeping Master Tara Singh in jail without proof of crime, Nehru a month ago had to insist on a further extension of the same Preventive-Detention Act passed originally under British rule to allow...
...minds of today's young men are a madhouse," wailed Chief Minister Sam-purnanand of Uttar Pradesh, one of India's foremost amateur astrologers. No longer, he complained, can "every young woman walk the streets with the confidence that every young man she meets will be as a brother to her." An indignant college professor joined in. "Individually as well as in groups," he complained, his students "discuss the proportions of maidens, their adipose tissues and their coy looks." And the coeds? "Bearing and dress publicly shout at you: 'Come and look at me.' " 50 Screams...