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...case has been in the courts ever since. When it finally came to trial, Mrs. Gandhi, in an unprecedented move, took the witness stand for 6% hours in her own defense. Her appearance turned into a sensation when the editor of a Hindi newspaper was caught entering the court with a loaded gun and arrested on suspicion of planning to assassinate her. Two days later, would-be assassins also attempted-unsuccessfully-to kill the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...
...favorite villains in Hindi movies is the smuggler king who, like Dr. No, runs his crooked empire from a posh suite crammed with electronic marvels, secret panels designed for quick getaways and strong rooms filled with gold and jewels. Invariably, he drinks the finest Scotch, drives a fast foreign car and has a passionate, sloe-eyed mistress. The Indian government has decided that the stereotype is a little too true to be good...
...opulence of their screen counterparts. Operating their own fleets of fast, radar-equipped dhows, motorboats and trucks, they bring in gold, jewels, liquor and such luxury items as TV sets and hi-fi equipment for the benefit of a small elite of conspicuous consumers. They spirit out silver, Hindi movies (frequently financed by smugglers), which are much admired in the Middle East and South Africa, and other Indian goods...
...wholesale and retail trades. "The British brought the Asians here to exploit us," cried one African speaker at a demonstration in Kampala. "They keep us in economic slavery." Amin himself accused the Asians of everything from sneaking money out of the country to keeping their account books in Hindi and Gujarati to confuse tax collectors. "If even I associated with Asians," shouted Amin, "I would be rejected in a minute...
...like modern chess, was called chaturanga, or the army game. The pieces represented the four elements of the Indian army: chariots, elephants, cavalry and infantry; they evolved through the centuries into rooks, bishops, knights and pawns. In its travels, the Hindi word rajah, for king, became shah in Persian, which led to the Arabic phrase shah mat, meaning the king is dead, from which the term checkmate is derived...