Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actress Roshan Dhunjiboy, a native of Calcutta, India, who understudied Ophelia with John Gielgud at the close of the war, was named yesterday as lead in the Dramatic Club's production of "Autigone...
...shocked by conditions he saw in India: the opium dens of Calcutta, the wandering lepers crying "Baksheesh," the filth and poverty of the villages. "I learned that one meal a day was all the majority of the people could count on . . . In those villages it took no effort...
...times in recent weeks extremist revolutionaries have tried to assassinate Nehru. Bengal was warming to extreme left-wing Demagogue Sarat Bose, brother of notorious Subhas Bose, the pro-Japanese strongman whose devoted followers still refuse to believe that he was killed in 1945 in an airplane crash (in his Calcutta house, they still keep his clothes pressed, ready for his return). India's Communist Party is one of Asia's smallest (about 60,000), but it manages to keep busy and highly audible under its present leader, a studiously obscure party worker named B. T. Ranadive...
Flushed by his narrow escapes and tumultuous ovations, Nehru threw a farewell bouquet to Calcuttans: "I should like to express my deep gratitude . . . not only for my warm welcome . . . but for the perfect order that prevailed . . . Calcutta is ... a peaceful city of busy folk carrying on their professions and avocations, while just a few anti-social elements cause trouble...
...dangerous, 3,200-mile over-water flight, made necessary by India's pro-Indonesian ban on landings by Dutch aircraft. For the trip back, Foreign Editor Charles Gratke of the Christian Science Monitor cabled Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and got permission for the newsmen to stop at Calcutta and Bombay, with a side jog north to New Delhi. At the Indian capital, they found Nehru too busy for a press conference. So most of the newsmen went shopping, bought jewelry and Kashmir shawls to take home to their wives, teakwood boats for their children. That evening they...