Word: tandon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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From all over India 200,000 men & women had come to the 56th annual meeting of the Congress Party to see whether the policy of dynamic, popular Nehru or saintly, reactionary Tandon would prevail...
Stepping off the train into a milk-white "duck" (amphibious truck), Tandon was pelted with flowers. Headed by an elephant borrowed from an itinerant circus, the procession jogged through packed and bedecked streets. Behind Tandon's duck came 5,000 Congress delegates, a score of mounted military cadets and a group of 100 folk dancers tripping to the shrill notes of the flute-like shanai...
Rubber Sandals. They knew what Tandon stood for. For instance, he goes even further than his late, great leader Gandhi in opposing industrialization. He will not eat ordinary sugar because it is refined in mills; instead he uses jaggery, a home-refined sugar. He thinks that all Indians should, like himself, be teetotalers, non-smokers and vegetarians. He hates soap, believes that rubbing the body vigorously with plenty of water is adequate. He condemns Western medicine as evil quackery and believes in the nature cures of Hinduism's innumerable Ayurveda doctors...
Recently he solemnly declared that "the cause for the deterioration in health is the smallpox vaccination." Last April, though greatly desiring to attend the Kumbh-mela held at Hardwar (TIME, May 1), Tandon stayed away because cholera inoculations were compulsory for all pilgrims. Tandon has complained that Nehru's approach to public health is almost the same as that of the British; e.g,, he advocates distribution of medicine made by Western methods and is in favor of injecting people's bodies with poisonous drugs. So revered by Tandon is the sanctity of animal life that he condemns leather...
Born in Allahabad (the home town of Nehru), Tandon started life as a lawyer. He soon threw up his promising career to join Gandhi's struggle for independence and was imprisoned seven times. Tandon's family was poor and has remained poor; he always refuses assistance from the Congress Party's rich patrons. He has often missed meals and worn rags. But, at a time when corruption and nepotism are deeply rooted in many Congress Party leaders, Tandon's unimpeachable integrity shines brightly in his favor...