Word: prakash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world should ever issue something comparable to Poor's Index of business trustees and their innumerable directorships. Dr. Satya Prakash of India would be high on its initial list. For Dr. Prakash, who was a visitor around Harvard during the first week of the Summer Session, is Director of not one but a dozen museums located in the state of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. Dr. Prakash has been in America for most of the past year on an Indian government scholarship studying museum techniques in Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Phoenix, San Francisco, New York, Boston and The Old Sturbridge Colonial Village--among other...
...main task of the museums, if they are multi-purpose, is to offer the same type of general art, scientific and cultural education that the Museum of Modern Art gives to its many loyal members. (This last Museum, incidentally, especially impresses Dr. Prakash.) If the museums are "art-museums," on the other hand, a general policy of Indian-antiquities-for-the-Indians is followed, with the many excavation sites of India additionally becoming regional museums in time. Western art, on the other hand, is difficult to collect due to the (a) lack of encouragement which the ruling English gave...
That night, news of the slaughter reached the district headquarters some 40 miles away. Police Chief Prakash Chander Mull rounded up his deputies, 250 well-armed cops, and a magistrate (the only official with authority to give the order to fire on a crowd), loaded them into trucks and headed for Mokhimpur. Taking cover in the cane fields, they fixed bayonets and prepared to charge the still-singing villagers. Suddenly the dancing stopped, a shot rang out from the village, the police answered with another, and Sadhu Raghubaranand fell to the ground, his shoulder grazed. Frightened and screaming, the villagers...
...started out by telling the Communists: "The difference between you and me is the difference between a corpse and a living man," Bhave had come a long way. He still has the support of Socialist Leader Jaya Prakash Narayan (the most respected politician in India after Nehru), who had quit politics under the spell of Bhave's earlier idealism. But Narayan himself is deeply disturbed by the failures of redistribution, and now demands that every Indian university student compulsorily devote one year to Bhoodan work. Said Narayan last week: "We must be quick, or those who believe in violence...
Zealots' Reproach. Born to a poor peasant 51 years ago in a remote Bihar village, Jaya Prakash Narayan never saw a trolley car until he was 19. When he won a government scholarship, the facts of Indian life crowded in on him all at once. He joined Gandhi's civil disobedience movement. Thirsty for learning but respecting Gandhi's boycott of the British-controlled universities, Narayan went to the U.S. to study. He worked his passage to California, got a job sorting fruit, began studying at Berkeley. During eight years in the U.S., he studied science...