Word: singh
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Deep concern about social injustice in India pervaded Friday's address before about 30 students and diplomats by the Honorable V. P. Singh, former prime minister of India...
...Singh stunned his Harvard Hall audience to silence with accounts of social injustice in India as he denounced its caste system and urged social and political equality for his country...
...Singh stressed the need for affirmative action in India, protesting the lack of lower-class representatives in India's government...
...Singh said the social situation in India is extremely volatile. "We are sitting on top of a volcano," he commented. "Albeit outside it looks cool, but inside there is fire...
Sikh separatists claimed responsibility today for a car bomb that killed 16 people in northern India, including Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, outside government headquarters. But New Delhi bureau chief Dick Thompson reports that that Punjabi Sikhs are so disgusted by the violence that the incident promises to splinter the minority drive for independence. "The last few years have witnessed a relative peace here and some remarkable agricultural prosperity, and already there's a palpable resentment that the violence could come back as a result of this." Before Singh, Thompson says, Hindus were commonly hauled out of public buses...