Word: pradesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clash over Russian missiles in Cuba. There is no evidence to prove that the Chinese attacked when they did to take advantage of Soviet preoccupation elsewhere. Once their grip on the Aksai Chin was secure, the Chinese withdrew from land they had occupied in NEFA (now known as Arunachal Pradesh) and offered to negotiate a mutually acceptable border in Kashmir. The Indians, whose call for assistance was answered by an outpouring of arms from Britain and the U.S., refused to discuss the matter until the Chinese completely departed from Aksai Chin, which they still retain. Today a few Chinese...
...master was born 46 years ago as Rajneesh Chandra Mohan in a small village in Madhya Pradesh province. Raised in the Jain religion, he worked as a journalist, photographer, and teacher of philosophy at Madhya State University before becoming a spiritual master in 1966. Today the Poona center is growing so swiftly that he is looking for roomier quarters. Rajneesh's lectures are taped and turned into a steady stream of books. One title: Above All, Don't Wobble. Rajneesh centers now operate in 22 nations...
...have been made. It had broken my life in two." So wrote V.S. Naipaul, the West Indian novelist (Guerrillas, A House for Mr. Biswas) of East Indian heritage, after his first visit to India in 1962. And so it seemed. He visited the ravaged village in Uttar Pradesh from which his grandfather had migrated to Trinidad as an indentured servant more than 60 years before, and fled in horror. He raged and fussed about the Indian bureaucracy. He was appalled by the emaciated bodies and starving dogs, by the filth and public defecation. He was exasperated by the religiosity...
...electoral returns reflect the similarity in voting behavior between city and village. All the seats from Delhi went to the opposition, just as they did in the surrounding rural states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. Because most of the excesses of the emergency had occurred in the North, a North-South split replaced the Urban-Rural gap. The Congress won only four seats out of 244 from the eight northern states which comprise the main Hindi-speaking belt. In the four southern states though, the Janata party won only three out of 130 seats...
...last week, when the votes were counted, the pattern could be clearly seen: in states such as Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Bihar, where the sterilization program was pursued with the most zeal but the least preparation, the defection from the Congress Party was the most severe...