Rama came sweeping into my hospital room with the haughty grandeur of a Brahmin empress, wearing a salmon pink sari and leading a retinue of assistants, interpreters, and equipment bearers.
So putting a Brahmin priest in jail will not hurt Dr Jayalalitha politically - indeed, it may fetch her dividends when the state goes to the polls next year.
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He is the richest man in a Senate full of rich people: a Boston Brahmin (his middle name is Forbes) who married an heiress and went to a Swiss boarding school.
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The state she governs has a miniscule Brahmin population - 3% - and is famous for voting film stars, dancers and film directors to political power.
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Often the farmer is from a higher caste (Brahmin), the laborers from a landless lower caste (Dalit).
And the young man says he was loath to go against his family's strong wishes that he find a traditional match from within his Brahmin community.
At first he taught in obscurity, in one small room with a grubby carpet, and only other Brahmin men.
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Lok Raj Baral, a political scientist, says that in a system of proportional representation some of the Brahmin politicians on whom the parties depend must lose out.
Take "Two Sisters From Boston" (1946), a charming period comedy starring Kathryn Grayson and June Alyson as a would-be opera singer and her naive sibling stifled by their Brahmin family.
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Other Internet sites already compete with the advertisements that Indian families place in the newspapers, requesting fair-skinned, slender, domesticated, convent-educated Brahmin girls in their early 20s for their 30-something, tall engineer sons with a five-figure salary.
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