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Dressed in a blazing red sari, Mrs. Gandhi sat cross-legged on the dais while she was unanimously elected president of the breakaway group, which calls itself the legitimate Congress Party. In her 45-minute speech, she attacked the policies of Morarji Desai, who had succeeded her as Prime Minister after her humiliating defeat in last March's election. She also told her supporters that they should be "prepared to go to the jails and fill them in large numbers"-a prospect that was likely to become as unpopular with politicians as her mass sterilization program had proved...
...endless whirl of parties in Ireland. Back in the U.S., Miss Lillian barely had time to unpack before she was out on the town in Manhattan. At a lunch celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Indian city of Jaipur, the President's mother, 79, gamely put on a sari. Miss Lillian never got to Jaipur during her stint as a Peace Corps nurse outside Bombay in the late '60s, but she couldn't resist the luncheon invitation: "I have nostalgia for India. I love it." So much so that she stayed on for the Jaipur Ball that...
...five years ago to join the Hare Krishna sect. Merylee had been finishing her second year at Queens College and hoped to become a teacher. But she took the Hindu name of Murti Vanya, became a nun in the sect's New York City temple, donned a saffron sari and joined her fellow devotees in chanting in the streets.* Convinced that Merylee, 24, had been brainwashed, her mother hired a private detective, Galen Kelly, to rescue...
Breaking Bread. Clad in her spotless blue-bordered white sari, Mother Teresa, who ministers to the starving people of Calcutta (TIME, Dec. 29), was the cynosure of the congress. At the world-hunger symposium, the diminutive nun prayed over a table laden with bread, then broke a loaf of bread and invited those in attendance to do likewise to symbolize the sharing of food. To her, both the U.S. and India are in deep trouble. "There is spiritual poverty and there is material poverty," she told her audience of 6,000 faithful, "and I think each...
Movie actresses are the main stylesetters in India, both in manners and morals. Zeenat Aman, who claims to be 24 but is closer to 30, has personally replaced the sari with blue jeans in millions of young Indian women's wardrobes. Parveen Babi, 22, the fastest-rising new star, is presently acting in 20 movies. One reason Indian movie fans are fascinated with Parveen, aside from her sleek figure, is because of her candor. Young men and women all over India claim that it is the swinging lives of the stars that are suddenly making them much less hesitant...