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...personal dynamism to .#11 it permanently. Conservatives favor Finance Minister Morarji Desai, a dogged free-enterpriser in a statist Cabinet and a stern ascetic who once gave up conjugal relations with his wife for 20 years. But Desai's austerity programs have not made him popular. Socialist Leader Jayaprakash Narayan is, next to Nehru, the most pop- ular man in India, but his simple syrup solutions for complex problems have hurt his reputation - and besides, Congress Party leaders can hardly be expected to favor the man who leads the opposition...
...this hand-wringing among those they had expected to point the way for them, the Africans scratched their heads and exclaimed that they only wanted some cars and some irrigation ditches and some good technical ideas from the gloomy Westerners. With a few exceptions, like India's Jayaprakash Narayan, who demanded a government of "direct participation" beyond either democracy or totalitarianism, the Asians and Africans had only one concept of freedom-the very European-invented concept of national freedom that the Europeans now deplored. After hearing the Westerners' fiercely despairing selfcriticism, one inquiring African asked: "Why should your...
Storm & Thunder. But if much of the Indian press seemed prepared to write off Tibet as a lost cause, India still had a voice and a conscience. Speaking in Delhi, strong-minded Jayaprakash Narayan, 56 (TIME, July 6). who was long considered Nehru's heir, ripped away the pretense that the Dalai Lama is in India for any reason except "to fight for his country and his people. Any patriot in his position would have done the same thing. Will you please imagine what would have happened if Nehru at the age of 25 had found himself...
...also won support from a man nearly as prominent, and as much of a brooding Hamlet, as Nehru himself: Jayaprakash Narayan, 56, who spent seven years in the U.S., going to college, waiting on tables, working in the stockyards. A onetime agitator and terrorist for Indian independence who languished ten years in British jails, Narayan formerly led the Socialists and was long considered heir apparent to Nehru. Then restless, diabetic Narayan became entranced with the mission of Vinoba Bhave, the saintly ascetic who tramps about India asking landlords to make a gift of their acres to landless peasants...