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...village life in northern India; of how a family tree was felled by the wind of the world; and of how the survivors, in anguish and confusion, broke with the medieval past and set out upon the weary and sorrowful journey to modern times. Aparajito ("The Story of Apu") describes their dreadful, beautiful encounter with the future...
...impractical man, "bursting with ideas for plays" and poems" that he never publishes, making what money he can as a rent collector. The mother is a sensible, hard-working homemaker, warmhearted but hard pressed to make ends meet. It is difficult enough to keep the children, a schoolboy named Apu and a teen-age girl named Durga, properly fed and clothed. As for the old aunt, as far as the mother is concerned it would be an unmixed blessing for everybody if she would drop dead...
Through such spectacular stunts, bearbaiting, beret-topped Newsman Jämsä (pronounced Yamsa) has got the stories that have helped the picture weekly Apu to achieve the largest magazine circulation (230,000) in Finland. In the course of his reporting chores, Jämsä has charmed a cobra, parachuted from 13,000 ft., tamed a lion, dived in a frogman's gear to a dangerous depth of 200 ft., and was stopped only by open water in an attempt to ski across the Baltic Sea from Finland to Sweden. Other Jämsä stunts...
...Turku railway-station official, Jämsä never did get to high school, began making news in his first reporting job on a provincial newspaper-he strapped on skis and ran an elk to exhaustion. Since 1953 he has averaged a story a week for Apu, often has his exploits reported in the Scandinavian and northern German press. One future assignment: hunting a bear with a spear (to prove that modern Finns are as strong as their ancestors...
...last week, Sondondo's beat was lost in a steady roar. After days of steady downpour, the river had flooded the gorge. Said Sondondinos, peering up at the lowering sky: "Apu Karwarasu...