Word: tulsi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, Brahman priests bathed the dead man's body in holy Ganges water, placed a green tulsi leaf between his lips and marked his forehead with yellow sandalwood paste and red kumkum powder. Then, in the late afternoon, a gun carriage drawn by Indian soldiers, sailors and airmen carried the body through Bombay's streets while vast crowds mourned and planes overhead showered the procession with flowers. Finally, at the cemetery, the dead man's son poured incense and ghee (semifluid butter) over the body and lit the pyre. Watching the rising flames, Jawaharlal Nehru sobbed...
Like men elsewhere, a thin little Indian with sparkling eyes is deeply worried about the state of the world. He is 34-year-old Acharya Sri Tulsi Ramji, head of the Terapanthi sect of the Jains, a religious group that believes in nonviolence. In a campaign to improve humanity, Tulsi Ramji in 1948 founded the Anuvrati Sangh (Atomic Vows Society). Its members take 148 vows, renewable yearly...
Last week the society was pleased to announce that it had grown from 75 to 25,000 members, several of them multimillionaire merchants. In red, yellow and blue turbans, many of Tulsi Ramji's followers gathered in the society's tent, where Tulsi Ramji was seated on a dais. A disciple read out the 148 vows. Cried Tulsi Ramji: "Do you accept this list of vows?" Shouted the crowd...
When he has pledged all of India to his atomic vows, Tulsi Ramji plans to convert the rest of the world...