Word: brahmans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour of yoga exercises each morning, including a spell of standing on his head. Whenever he feels drained intellectually, one unfailing source of energy remains to him-the Indian people. Nehru's long romance with the millions on millions of kisans, or peasants, began when he was 31. Brahman-born and British-bred, Nehru had returned home to provincial Allahabad with his sense of innate superiority re-enforced by seven years of upper-class education at Harrow, Cambridge and London's Inner Temple, where he qualified for the bar. Already a romantic dabbler in the independence movement, Nehru...
Perhaps the West Bengali government was surprised--even disappointed--when they first viewed the movie. They saw not a fast-moving, glossy travelogue, but a naturalistic essay, viewing life as a lament of the path. Pather Panchali focuses on a rural Brahman family whose house is falling down. The gate is off its hinges, the yard full of rubbish, and the shutters loose...
There is the great wasteland effect of Huntington Ave., better forgotten perhaps, and the histrionics of Washington Street, of a more recent vintage. There are the outlying districts, the products of a new economy, functional in their own way. None the less, the antique shimmer of a Brahman past has always represented Boston qua Boston, and most likely it always will.. . . Stained glass keeps out the light...
Father Panchali (Indian). A radiantly beautiful and entirely natural tragedy of a Brahman family hard put to make ends meet, leavened by an energy for life and some marvelously funny side glances...
Pather Panchali-English translation: The Lament of the Path-tells a tragedy of family life in a small village. The family-every member of which is unforgettably portrayed in the most natural style imaginable-is Brahman. The father is a priest, a decent, impractical man, "bursting with ideas for plays" and poems" that he never publishes, making what money he can as a rent collector. The mother is a sensible, hard-working homemaker, warmhearted but hard pressed to make ends meet. It is difficult enough to keep the children, a schoolboy named Apu and a teen-age girl named Durga...