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...town is 2½ miles from the airstrip, on a spit of land at the confluence of the Nam Khan and Mekong rivers. We reach it over a frail bamboo bridge floating on native dugout canoes. Here the jungle seems to be about to swallow the city's few houses and streets. Charming white temples and graceful stupas, elaborately decorated with legends and characters from the Ramayana relics of India, are everywhere crowded by tall green rustling palms, fragrant frangipani trees and scarlet-blossomed poincianas...
...Delhi, he stayed in a bamboo hut near the concrete ghat in which Gandhi's body was cremated. Nehru called twice, in the midst of a busy election campaign. Dr. Rajendra Prasad, the President of India, came and told Bhave to take as much as he wanted of Prasad's land holding in Bihar. Members of the Planning Commission came and stayed for hours. Even a delegation of Communists, headed by Party Boss Ajoy Ghosh, paid a courteous visit. After eleven days, Bhave left New Delhi and has not been back to the capital since. He dislikes cities...
...course, the primary requisite for truly suave Chinese eating is the use of chopsticks. With five minutes practice, nearly everyone can finish a meal with chopsticks his first try. The food really tastes better, too, because the chopsticks, made of dry bamboo, leave no metallic taste. And since the food is placed on an individual bowl of rice from the communal bowl, various sauces soak the rice, leaving an exciting composite of tastes...
Finally, there should be some sort of vegetable. Chel Shar Din is a favorite of many. It consists of diced vegetables, such as celery, water chestnuts and bamboo shoot, mixed with bits of fried pork for flavor. Actually, though, any place of mixed greens will do admirably...
...where is he hiding?). Then entire populations, including stiff-jointed ancients and bare-bottomed small fry, join in the Ra Ra processions that snake out into the countryside, laughing and joking and singing creole chants to the accompaniment of throbbing tambours and booming vaccines (huge bamboo pipes that give off hollow, resonant notes when blown). Waving clubs, machetes and old colonial swords, they thrash through the ravines and cane-brakes, and if by chance they first come upon a neighboring band's Judas, so much the better-they whack it up with glee. By noon Haiti is strewn with...