national stage

Think the feminists who protested the 1968 Miss America pageant in the name of women's liberation burned their bras?

Think again. No bras were set aflame that September day. But the idea that they were helped launch the movement onto the national stage.

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Today people in the Indian state of Gujarat are heading to the polls to vote in assembly elections.

The western state is one of India's most economically developed regions and a place where political trends often mirror those that play out on the national stage.

Host Steve Inskeep talks about the elections with NPR's Philip Reeves in India.