Word: theys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ordinary folk have overwhelming faith that their Prime Minister will solve not only national but also personal problems. They collect on his lawn every morning, and usually get to hand him their petitions. Once, after he spoke in a village near Delhi, a woman rushed up with a note informing...
People's Good. He is stern as well as loving. His face looks down from posters, exhorting the people to put a stop to bribery: "Cast aside these vile practices. The giver is just as guilty as the receiver." Once he berated some refugees who gathered on his lawn...
"I sometimes think the American public doesn't understand very much about diplomacy. These things are not discussed with ambassadors-and they cannot be discussed with the press. And you can quote me on that, too."
The Communists, numerically weak and partially outlawed, are now promoting underground terror and sabotage, agitating even in the jails where Nehru and his Congress comrades once languished. On the far right loom the Hindu chauvinists, the Hindu Mahasabha. Beside them, noisier, more militant and dangerous, are the R.S.S. (Rashtriya Swayamsevak...
Despite such political and ideological unrest, Nehru insists: "People do not believe in 'isms.' They believe in their own individual life . . . India is fundamentally stable because its peasants are better off than before. Industrial workers are, in some cases, a little better off and in some cases a...