Word: singhs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sirdar Jagjit ("J.J.") Singh, a successful Manhattan importer, a U.S. resident for 30 years, and head of the India League, has long been India's No. 1 self-appointed lobbyist in the U.S. In New Delhi last week, on his way home after a two months' visit to India and India's leaders (including Nehru), Singh spoke up in the sorrowful tones of a mutual friend...
...fact that India receives U.S. aid," said Singh, "creates certain expectancies in the U.S. which India is rightly not willing to meet. That in turn creates disappointment and bitterness in the U.S., thus worsening Indo-American relations . . . The fact is, U.S. taxpayers are sick and tired of shelling out their money to foreign countries and particularly to countries which are not in their corner. And India is not in their corner...
Father of the Bride. In Rajgoh, India, after he told startled Knichlipur Hospital officials that the seven-month-old baby he carried in was his wife, Karan Singh, 30, owned up that after he purchased the child from her mother he decided on a marriage of convenience, explained: "It's cheaper to marry her myself than pay her wedding dowry when she grows...
...social workers who have gone up into the hills have been driven out by village elders. Said one elder indignantly: "They asked us indecent questions." Among the Jaunswaris themselves a reform movement, with all members taking the vow of monogamy, has been organized by a college graduate named Surat Singh. Although his movement is enthusiastically supported by the women, the menfolk are threatening to drive Surat Singh and all his followers into the plains. Now the Indian government has a new idea. Provincial Social Welfare Minister Acharya Jugal proposes to halt immigrant labor, seal off Jaunswar Bawar from outside influences...
...women seemed to be doing pretty well on their own account. Against a backdrop of Himalayan mountains, a pretty, 16-year-old girl was busily spinning wool while her five husbands and the village headman pleaded with her not to become a dhyanty. Said she: "I married only Gulab Singh. I will have nothing to do with his four brothers." Said the headman: "My child, you know that by our custom, when you marry one man, you marry his brothers also." Retorted the 16-year-old: "Gulab Singh or none. If I cannot have only one husband, I will divorce...