Word: pratibha
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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Antulay had set up trust funds designed to improve roads, build post offices, help jobless youths, the disabled and the poor. One fund was called the Indira Gandhi Pratibha Pratishthan (talent trust) to "encourage talented people in the fields of literature and the fine arts." The anti-Gandhi Indian Express claims that Antulay solicited money for the trust funds from businesses by granting building permits and other licenses, and by rewarding donors with scarce supplies of such state-controlled commodities as industrial alcohol and cement...
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