Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh , 1932-, Indian economist and government official, prime minister of India (2004-), b. Gah, West Punjab. Educated at the universities of Punjab, Cambridge, and Oxford, Singh taught at a number of institutions, including the Delhi School of Economics, and worked for the United Nations (1966-69). During the 1970s and 80s he held a number of government financial and economic posts, including economic adviser to the ministries of foreign trade (1971-72) and finance (1972-76) and governor of the Reserve Bank of India (1982-85), before becoming economic affairs adviser (1990-91) to Prime Minister Rao . Appointed finance minister in 1991, Singh introduced reforms that were credited with reviving the economy and initiating a decade of growth. A technocrat rather than a politician, Singh was first elected to the Indian parliament's upper house in 1991 as a member of the Congress party. He became prime minister when party leader Sonia Gandhi declined the office after the 2004 elections, and is the first Sikh to hold the post.
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Hare Krishnas Mature and Change Public Image
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 7/25/1996; 700+ words
; ...of the arrival of Hare Krishna in the United...known as the Hare Krishnas, and before long...practices of the Hare Krishnas are part...you will find the Krishnas in their morning...Initially, the Hare Krishna movement...route to the Hare Krishnas. ANUTAMA DHASA...
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HARE KRISHNAS GAINING RESPECT IN INDIA
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 5/9/1998; 700+ words
; ...conspiracy by the CIA, Hare Krishnas are now earnign respect...had my family viewed the Hare Krishnas as an alien movement with...chanting "Hare Krishna, Hare Rama" in the 1970s...didn't suspect Hare Krishnas of being CIA spies dismissed...
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Hare Krishnas enhance the spirit with food
News Wire article from: University Wire; 9/10/1997; ; 650 words
; ...TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Hare Krishnas are trying to save Florida...weekday at noon the Hare Krishnas serve a vegetarian lunch...FSU and a diner at the Hare Krishna lunches. To...the lunches, the Hare Krishnas also offer a free Sunday...
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HARE KRISHNAS SEE CHANGES AS 30TH ANNIVERSARY NEARS.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 5/11/1996; 700+ words
; ...flower in America in the 1960s, the Hare Krishnas seemed to be the lightning rod...repetitive chanting. In the 1980s, the Krishnas suffered setbacks, with organizational...immigrants in the United States. The Krishnas estimate that 75,000 to 100...
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Hare Krishnas denied charter school.
Newspaper article from: The Florida Times Union; 5/17/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...a practicing member of the Hare Krishna faith. But Allin says...Allin and a handful of other Krishnas want to open an 80-student...school won't be open to non-Krishnas and will be a state-funded...school now run by the Alachua Krishnas. Charter school contracts...
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Hare Krishnas face new scandal Child abuse issue coming to fore.
Newspaper article from: The Florida Times Union; 6/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; ALACHUA -- Hare Krishnas with shaved heads and saffron...could threaten the Hare Krishnas, the Eastern spiritual...COLLAPSE AND REBIRTH Hare Krishnas debate how much...complaints to no avail." Hare Krishnas left the movement en masse...
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Hare Krishnas in Dallas Don't Want to Be Neighbors with a McDonald's.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 7/6/2001; 700+ words
; ...McDonald's and a Hare Krishna temple, whose...neighbors. The Hare Krishnas don't. The East Dallas...quiet enclave of 100 Hare Krishnas by adding noise, trash...The opposition, the Hare Krishnas, to me, some of what...
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Growing Up in the Hare Krishnas / Couple have mixed views about upbringing in sect and continuing to keep their faith.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: San Francisco Chronicle; 2/13/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...cosmic consciousness. Hare Krishna. Krishna...joining the Hare Krishnas.' She put me in...parents wound up at the Hare Krishna temple in...interest in the Hare Krishnas. Today, the young...cosmic consciousness. Hare Krishna. Krishna...joining the Hare Krishnas.' ...
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Filing to shield assets: Hare Krishnas seek bankruptcy to defend against sex scandal
Newspaper article from: Charleston Daily Mail; 5/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...DAILY MAIL STAFF West Virginia's Hare Krishnas have raised the white flag of bankruptcy...own problems with sex abuse, the Krishnas say their goal is to get as much...in Texas on behalf of 91 former Krishnas and the children of devotees...
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Hare Krishnas Fight Judgment
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/10/1990; 662 words
; ...That's what followers of Hare Krishna, a Hindu sect, are...Archives. Since Feb. 28, Krishnas taking turns on six-hour...to the Supreme Court, the Krishnas contend that the First Amendment...the damages are upheld, the Krishnas' Western world headquarters...
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Hare Krishnas
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hare Krishnas , communalistic religious movement, officially...through the practice of chanting the mantra Hare Krishna [O Lord Krishna]. The movement...Bibliography: See E. B. Rochford, Hare Krishna in America (1985); L. Shinn...
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Cults
Book article from: American Decades
...particularly to the young. Hare Krishna Some of these groups...people, who were called Hare Krishnas by outsiders due to their chanting...passersby encountered Hare Krishnas, dressed in saffron robes...more startling were the Hare Krishnas soliciting contributions in...
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Sociology of religion
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...x2019; (obvious examples are the Moonies ( Moon ), Rajneeshis , Scientologists , Transcendental-Meditationists , Hare Krishnas (see INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS ), and Wiccans (see WITCHCRAFT )). Despite their own exaggerations...
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Occultism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...the Kremlin walls). The post-1991 period saw the return of theosophy and anthroposophy, shamanism, Buddhism, Hare Krishnas, Roerich cults, neopaganism, the White Brotherhood, UFOlogy, and other occult trends. See also: freemasonry...
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