Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal, from tropical Madras to the freezing Himalayas, election fever was rising last week in India. Government printing presses rolled around the clock turning out ballots for 210 million eligible voters (all citizens over 21). About 125 million of them-more than the populations of England, France, Canada and Australia-are expected to go to the polls this month in the biggest free election in the world. Voting in most states will last a week beginning Feb. 18; returns from six snowbound constituencies in the north will not be in until April...
...Indian Communist Party, which like the Japanese was silent during the Party Congress, is more openly split: five members of the party's 25-member central executive committee favor Peking (the center of such sentiment is West Bengal), although General Secretary Ajoy Ghosh is a Khrushchev disciple, and accuses Red China of antagonizing the Indian masses by fomenting border incidents. The freeze in Sino-Indian relations was reflected this week in New Delhi, where the Russians opened a glittering pavilion at an international industrial fair, while the Chinese boycotted the event...
...last Dutt won a contract to build the $28 million Durgapur steam power plant in West Bengal. He got the job by combining the nationalistic appeal that Indian engineers would do most of the work with a reassuring promise that the U.S. Kuljian Corp. would stand by to assist. To the Indian government, it was an irresistible deal: because he designed the Bokaro steam plant, which became a model for all thermal plants in India, Harry Kuljian's name was already held in high regard in New Delhi...
...India was on its way. Dutt, who works a 13-hour day, now has $153 million worth of contracts, has twice moved his offices into larger quarters. Unlike many Indian businessmen, who will hire only natives of their own state, Dutt has collected 50 crack engineers from Punjab, Bengal, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. Says he, in words that could have come from Harry Kuljian himself: "If you have the ability, Kuljian will...
...land between the two camps moves John Masters, who from 1934 to 1947 was a professional soldier of a particularly proud breed-an officer in the Indian army. Since then, he has become a professional writer with seven novels about India to his credit (Bhowani Junction, Nightrunners of Bengal, The Venus of Konpara). In his autobiographical The Road Past Mandalay, Masters uses his novelist's insight and his soldier's knowledge to write an absorbing, sharply distinctive story of World War II as fought in the East...