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These are sacred places ... for me more sacred than temples, gurdwaras [Sikh shrines] and mosques. I feel more religious-minded when I see these great works." While Indians cheered, tempers rose in neighboring West Pakistan. Premier Mohammed Ali called an emergency Cabinet session, and lodged a strong protest with New Delhi. For years the two nations have quarreled about water almost as much as they have quarreled over Kashmir. World Bank officials in Washington are trying to get them together on a plan for joint Indian-Pakistani development of the waters of the Sutlej and four other rivers which join...
...King-size (6 ft. 1 in., 210 lbs.) Pardu-man Singh of India, dubbed the "Samson" of the meet. Blackbearded Singh, a Sikh sergeant in the Indian army's armored corps, won the shotput (46 ft. 4⅝ in.) and discus...
...runs out on a marriage with a gentle Sikh nationalist, because "it was awful, trying to be an Indian," and there would be nothing to talk about except "politics and strikes and the future of mankind...
...same situation is touched upon in Kipling's poem The Mother-Lodge, where the membership, in addition to Protestant Anglo-Indians, a Jew and a Catholic, included a Hindu, a Mohammedan and a Sikh, so "we dursn't give no banquits / Lest a Brother's caste were broke...
...Penang, on trial for the murder of her children. She was the first white, woman to go on trial for her life in Malaya since the famous case 30 years ago which Somerset Maugham dramatized in The Letter. To a jury of three Britons, three Chinese and a Sikh, the crown prosecutor outlined his case. "This is not common murder." said he, "but a most exceptional case. There is no motive here. It is a tragedy, and your reaction must be one of pity, but you must not let this feeling overcloud your reasons." Elizabeth Parsons, with one wrist still...