Word: allahabad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian girl's modesty in the big city is under constant assault nowadays-if only visually and verbally. "We get 50 screams for help every week from girls whom men are trying to pick up," says a Bombay cop. Last week, 17 teen-agers were rounded up in Allahabad for talking to girls in the street, though 14 were merely reprimanded and sent home. In Lucknow, one harried police inspector prefers more direct action: "I just take them to the lockup and thrash them...
...Uttar Pradesh, two policemen were victims and an elephant dropped dead in its tracks. A doctor fell dead while visiting Delhi, and his wife succumbed at home in Allahabad...
...Hindus, one of the holiest places in the universe is the city of Allahabad (pop. 332,295) in northern India. It is holy because it is one of the four spots where the urn of immortality dripped its nectar in the struggle between the gods and the demons. And it is also holy because it marks the confluence of three sacred rivers-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna and the invisible Sarasvati, which is supposed to flow underground. Every twelve years, the Hindus celebrate the Kumbh Mela (Urn Festival) at Allahabad, bathing in the waters of the three rivers...