Word: singh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proper limit." Naxalism, as Indian Maoism is also called - after a village named Naxalbari at the movement's origins - has rapidly outstripped the insurgencies in Jammu and Kashmir and northeast India. Maoists have a presence in at least 16 of India's 28 states, and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has described Naxalism as the "biggest internal security challenge" that faces the country...
...picture was different in the 70s, when every young man's dream was to fly across the roads with his sweetheart on a Bajaj scooter. In north India, marriages meant a Bajaj scooter as dowry, Bajaj has said. Tejinder Singh, a retired brigadier in the Indian army, remembers his first Bajaj scooter that he bought with a loan of $70 in 1973. In those days of bicycles, a scooter felt like a royal luxury. "Riding in the night, with my wife at the back, her hands gently holding me was the most romantic feeling," he says...
...Like many, Singh progressed from his Bajaj to an M-800 in 1987. "I was an army major by then and it was only fit that I should buy the M-800," says Singh. "It was not only a status symbol, but a vehicle of the times." He drove the little car for nearly two decades, and says it witnessed a major portion of his life story. "My children and grandchildren have all been part of that experience. If my wife were alive today she would have never allowed me to sell it," he says. "To this date, I associate...
...will end in India when shiny new Chetaks and the Maruti 800 disappear from India's streets - an era that marked the emergence of a modern India struggling to align its traditional values with modern aspirations. As Singh put it: "It was good while it lasted, but now its time to move...
...With reporting by Madhur Singh / New Delhi...