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...Bombay. Fernandes soon found the life of an M.P. boring and went back to militant unionism. In May 1974, he masterminded a crippling national railway strike that the government succeeded in breaking only after three weeks of turmoil and thousands of arrests...
...stars, like Shashi Kapoor, classical dancer Gopi Krishna and lovely Shabana Azmi, 24, do very well working hard at their trade. Most days Shashi, for instance, does two eight-hour acting stints on different Bombay lots, often for his brother Raj's production company. On others, he'll hop a plane for Srinagar for a day's shooting in Kashmir, or roar off in his white Mercedes to Pune (formerly Poona) for a locationer. Then he will rush back to Bombay to read the script for Last Train to Pakistan, his next starring vehicle, and perhaps consider...
...case, cinema has now become India's seventh-largest industry. In all, 65 studios and 38 film laboratories spend $82 million to supply movies in 15 official languages to almost 9,000 Indian theaters (annual box office: $256 million). Bombay is the home of the big-budget Hindi hits, but it is Calcutta that has earned for India most of its international cinematic acclaim. That is mainly because of Satyajit Ray. Using Calcutta's swirling misery as a background for his low-budget masterpieces, Director Ray depicts Indian life with poignant realism. His famous trilogy, Song...
Last week the New York Philharmonic announced that, starting in 1978, Bombay-born Mehta, 39, would be sending himself willingly to New York to become the orchestra's music director. He succeeds French Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez, who will quit in 1977 after six years to head a new musical-research institute. A onetime enfant terrible of the avantgarde, Boulez had a reign that was not so much stormy as trying-on him, the management and the subscribers. He was a supreme orchestral technician-his men called him the French Correction-and a master of 20th century music...
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's tenth anniversary in office was marked late last month with celebrations throughout the country. At one mass rally in Bombay, the president of India's ruling Congress Party compared her to the Hindu goddess of strength. The comparison was apt. On the last day of January she expunged one of the two remaining pockets of opposition by dissolving the state assembly and dismissing the government of Tamil Nadu-the populous (45 million) former state of Madras. In its place she imposed direct rule from New Delhi. Twenty planeloads of police landed in Madras...