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DIED. JITENDRA PRASADA, 62, seniorleader of India's main opposition Congress Party, who made headlines last year when he challenged Italian-born Sonia Gandhi for the party's leadership; in New Delhi. Prasada's challenge was unprecedented in a party known for fierce loyalty to the leadership. He had campaigned against what he called a self-serving coterie around Gandhi in the run-up to the election, but was defeated resoundingly...
...devotees sit along a wall playing soft music and chanting devotional songs as visitors sit cross-legged, some singing along, all of them with their backs to the wall. It is the bhajan, the time for prayerful, mellow song and the prelude to the lecture, the aroti and the prasada...
...prasada, or food, is sanctified by Krishna and brought into the temple in large, white buckets. The devotees top over the vats and ladle the food onto peoples' plates. The paper plates sag under an awesome spectrum of stewed, spiced, fried, mashed, sweetened or rolled vegetables. A smiling baby lies between its parents, who sit cross-legged, eating peacefully. A little boy with a short pony tail and white robe, a Hare Krishna miniature, collects donations with a wicker basket, directed around the temple by his mother...
Last week Butter & Egg Man Harbour got this reply from Delhi's Chief Commissioner Shankar Prasada: "I am sorry to disappoint you, but I much regret to say that I have not had the pleasure of meeting the 'Human Top,' much less see it whirl ... I hope that this will be a warning to you and to many other credulous gentlemen not to take seriously . . . the sensational nonsense that is sometimes published about the so-called Mysterious East." Delhi's Hindustan Times added its own tart postscript: "Our American friends are ... sometimes no better than grown...
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