Word: rajagopalachari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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India celebrated the anniversary of independence by announcing new and stricter austerity measures. India is still basically a hungry land; the government has launched a drive to raise more food. To highlight the food drive, plows ripped through New Delhi's viceregal golf course. Governor General Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, no golfer himself, posed behind a team of bullocks...
Governor General Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, one of India's leading prohibitionists, also recognizes the difficulty of curing addicts. He recently said: "Those who have got used to spirituous liquor of any kind cannot bear the compulsory privation ordained by state prohibition without a suitable substitute. To replace wine, whiskey or toddy by tea is based on the fallacious notion that the problem is only a matter of selection of fluids...
Making his first official call on India's new Governor General Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, Soviet Ambassador Kirill Novikov* addressed "Rajaji" as "Your Excellency." When the Governor General expressed surprise at his use of the title, Novikov explained:"We dropped the custom after the Revolution, but later felt that it had been a mistake."† "What?" Rajaji inquired sweetly. "The Revolution...
Handsome Lady Mountbatten flew home from New Delhi with her handsome husband, who had just retired as Britain's last Governor General of India (TIME, June 28), after a well-nigh unforgettable leave-taking from his successor, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari...
Hands Across the Ages. In New Delhi, people gave Lord Mountbatten an endless and slightly rueful round of farewell parties. Preparing to take his place was Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (conveniently known as "C.R."), one of the Congress Party's austere leaders (he neither smokes, drinks nor goes to the movies). If the Dominion of India decides to break away from the British Commonwealth, C.R. will be its last Governor General. Said he last week: "I shall have to shake hands with Warren Hastings* across the ages, saying, 'You were the first and I am the last in your noble...