Word: rishikesh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these daubed wanderers move from village to village dispensing magic charms and quack cure-alls and mulcting the credulous peasants. Today at least 75% of India's 8,000,000-odd sadhus are racketeering fakes. Last week something was being done about it for the first time. At Rishikesh, a Hindu holy place on the Ganges about 140 miles from New Delhi, officials opened the first of a series of training camps for sadhus...
Blood In the Brain. Purpose of the project is twofold: 1) to issue identity cards to all sadhus and thus drive the crooks out of business by denying them cards; 2) to harness sadhu selflessness for the social betterment of India. The pilot plant at Rishikesh, run by the Indian Association of Sadhus, is a complex of one-story concrete-and-brick buildings equipped with such unascetic features as electric lights, telephones, and outboard motor dinghies to ferry sadhus and supplies across the river. Fifty holy men from all over the country are spending a month there studying political philosophy...
Manhattan newspapers' avoidance of the racial tag posed a more delicate problem for editors. Nepal's U.N. Delegate Rishikesh Shaha was stabbed and robbed in Central Park last week, and six of the city's seven major dailies (exception: the Daily News) omitted any racial description of the muggers. But then some of the U.N.'s Asian and African delegates began murmuring that brown-skinned Ambassador Shaha had been attacked because of his color. The conscientious New York Times promptly reported that both thugs were Negroes, while the Herald Tribune described one of them...