Word: prasad
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...significance!" cried the National Herald. "Momentous!" echoed the Hindustan Standard. "There may be a new chapter opening in Asian relations." Destiny Beckons. Chou drove first to the Jumna River, where he laid a big wreath upon Mahatma Gandhi's cremation ground. He paid his formal respects to President Prasad (whose office is decorated with autographed pictures of Eisenhower and Nixon). Then Chou got down to serious business with Nehru in a conference that many Asians equated with the Churchill-Eisenhower parley in Washington...
...Prasad with his cutaway and striped pants still in transit from the U.S. The honor of U.S. protocol was saved only by the fact that the obliging Italian ambassador happened to have the same suit size...
...Lord in this manner." But a national cry of protest rose up across India. "This stupid and brutal assault," cried Premier Jawaharlal Nehru, "brings out forcibly the degradation of those who claim to serve religion, and want to make it a vested interest of their own." President Rajendra Prasad, who gave up his Bihar estates to Bhave's campaign to collect land for his landless ones (TIME, May 11), sent a message of shame and regret. The opposition Socialist Party bitterly criticized Bihar's Congress-dominated government for not protecting a man revered by millions of Indians...
Crowds gathered around the house where the holy man lay ill. Half a dozen state and national government officials sent doctors to care for him. Dr. Prasad and others pleaded with him to take the drugs they prescribed...
Finally, on being assured that the medicines contained no animal matter, Bhave consented. He improved almost immediately. During his convalescence, Nehru and Prasad flew down for a visit. And his disciples carried on with Bhoomidan-yagna, collecting 33,000 acres of land. When Bhave took to the road again, the donations came in so fast that the ash ram's bookkeeping system was almost snowed under. Last week, after 110 miles of dusty tramping in Bihar, he had picked up another 365,000 acres...