Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After wading barefoot through a monsoon-flooded rice paddy on his first major tour of the steamy Indian hinterland, the U.S.'s new high-pocketed, highbrowed Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith and 'his wife Catherine cooled off at surf-raked Puri on the Bay of Bengal. Though they had followed the local practice of hiring a personal lifeguard against the treacherous undertow, the ambassador's lady still barely went near the water...
...they go to see the Taj Mahal at nearby Agra), Banaras (for its burning funeral ghats) and Calcutta (famed for slums and the Black Hole). Many tourist wonders lie off the beaten track but lack good hotels. Exceptions: the rose-pink city of Jaipur and Purion the Bay of Bengal, only 18 miles from the Black Pagoda at Konarak, famed for its delicately erotic carvings of gods and goddesses. Malaya is orderly and well-kept, almost resembling a rural England with tropical trimmings, and has 30 golf courses and fine beaches where the swimming is made more exciting...
...instead of walk, and boys paddle to school in big round earthenware pots called pipkins, with their books tucked under their folded legs. The delta's inhabitants have learned to live with such hazards as high spring tides and violent cyclones that sweep in over the Bay of Bengal at the turn of the monsoon in the fall. But this month uncounted thousands of them died in the worst storm since October 1876, when 100,000 drowned in 30 minutes...
Part 1, called Father Panchali (The Lament of the Path), describes the hero's childhood in the innocence and violence of a village in Bengal. Part 2, Aparajito (The Unvanquished), tells how he lost his father and left his mother in order to make himself a modern man. Part 3, called Apur Sansar (The World of Apu), begins with a slyly humorous description of how the young man (Soumitra Chatterjee) spends his can't-afford-salad days of bohemian genius in Calcutta's slums. Suddenly one day a college friend carts him off to a country wedding...
...Peace & Might. By playing up so lavishly to the Asian leaders - at a remove from the unspontaneous crowds -Khrushchev cut the ground from under local Communists. The day Khrushchev spoke in Calcutta, the chief minister of West Bengal faced down the Communist opposition leader's parliamentary criticism by citing Khrushchev's praise of Indian development. In Burma, where Communists' parliamentary strength was sliced from 45 to three in last month's elections, Khrushchev passed over local Reds to praise U Nu as "a great peace fighter." And in Indonesia, the Communist boss of the country...