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...throne for the Dalai Lama to sit on during the teaching, which they unveiled last Saturday. “We are very excited and honored to host His Holiness, so a local Tibetan carpenter and tailor built a throne for His Holiness,” said Pema T. Shastri, a spokesman for the Tibetan Association of Boston. “It has taken several months to build the throne.” Sangay said he hopes the throne will eventually be placed in a Tibetan Heritage Center, which the Association plans to build in the next few years. He added...
...naujawan - the new young men who represent the future of the party. If they do well in this year's elections, Gandhi's effort to redefine the Congress Party will be vindicated. "It's a way of legitimizing his presence and his stature within the party," says Sandeep Shastri, the national convenor of Lokniti, a national network of academics who study Indian elections. Gandhi is planting the seeds in Punjab for a harvest that may be many years away...
...written a pro-environment book and is concerned about issues like global warming and conserving our natural resources? Gore is just another Clinton, spending too much of his time raising money. Perhaps that's good enough for a lot of people, but it isn't for me. VIDYA SHASTRI Kent, Wash...
...resort to nominating Gandhi's Italian-born and determinedly apolitical widow Sonia to the party presidency. Her polite refusal, returned within a day of the offer, forced the party to look within for the first nondescendant of Nehru who might hold the reins of government since Lal Bahadur Shastri briefly succeeded the late patriarch in the gentler year...
Then she collapsed in tears. Almost every time someone spoke to her, she would start crying. Nehru's successor, Lai Bahadur Shastri, wanted her to serve as Foreign Minister, but she wanted no public office at all. Only after ten days of Shastri's pleading did she agree to serve as Minister of Information and Broadcasting, a minor post. After less than two years in office, Shastri suddenly died, and the Congress Party bosses could not agree on a successor. They turned to Mrs. Gandhi as someone who could serve while the struggle for power went...