Word: bengals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Annamalai University is situated in the rural heart of Madras State, or Tamil Nad, South India. On its eastern boundry, lush green rice paddies cover the six miles between the University and the shores of the Bay of Bengal. On the west, the campus blends almost unnoticeably into the town of Chidambaram, a religious, as well as commercial and government center. Chidambaram's two famous Hindu temples dominate the landscape for miles around, visible proof of the University's ties with traditional South India...
Fortnight ago, an anti-Hindi rally in Madras denounced the "imposition of Hindi" as "discriminatory tyranny." Other southerners even charged "Hindi imperialism," and a Madras political party planned to spend Republic Day in mourning. Last week in Bengali-speaking West Bengal, trucks bearing license plates in Hindi were ordered off roads on the plea that cops were unable to read them-obviously a deliberate and calculated harassment of Hindistate shipping...
...exotic train of several Hindi words ("telephone exchange," translated literally into Hindi, is "house of the distant voices"). Such bureaucracy by doublespeak is hardly apt to speed India's snail-slow governmental machinery, which at a time of increasing national difficulties needs just the opposite. Desks of West Bengal bureaucrats are already piled high with letters from opposite numbers in Uttar Pradesh, which they cannot read, much less answer, since the senders in dutiful obedience to the new law failed to attach English translations...
...Harp is a little reminder that he has kept close to him since last year. It says Princeton 51, Cornell 14, and he hopes it will inspire his Big Red to turn the tables on the Tigers at Princeton today and pull the rug out from under the Bengal's undefeated season...
Like Flies. Arriving last week in West Bengal's Cede station, Mrs. Nipubala Nag, a Hindu from Pakistan, dabbed tears from her eyes as she told of a Moslem mob that burst in on terrified Hindu mill workers in Dacca, East Pakistan's capital, with daggers, axes and steel bars. Among the dead were her husband and 19-year-old son. At Jessore, grey-bearded, shirtless Osman Ghani talked wistfully of his home and stationery shop in Calcutta, both burned to the ground by Hindu mobs. After weeks in an Indian relief camp, Ghani, his wife and three...