Word: calcutta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as it celebrated its 475th anniversary with a modest dinner in Manhattan (and no ceremony at all in London), the Press could boast branch offices in Melbourne, Toronto. Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Wellington, Karachi, Glasgow, Cape Town and Ibadan, as well as a whole separate corporation in the United States. It is the only book publisher with its own paper mill; it has the world's largest permanent catalogue (10,000 titles), (the largest stock 15 million volumes) and probably the biggest sales (nearly 10 million books a year from the British list alone). The grandfather...
Left Hook. In the event of war, India's generals do not expect the Chinese to strike their main blow across the Himalayas-although they are taking no chances. They expect instead a Chinese left hook through Burma and Assam towards Calcutta. Short of war, the generals agree that infiltration is the danger...
...Khasi Hills at Cherrapunji. reputed to have the world's heaviest rainfalls. The moment he arrived, the rains ceased. Just after he left, 30 inches fell. As a final blow, he was arrested for taking surreptitious pictures of a perfect formation of monsoon clouds from a Calcutta-bound plane. Indian law prohibits taking pictures from an airplane. "They just couldn't believe," Burke relates, "that all I wanted to do was photograph a few of their clouds...
Clothes for Canvas. India's more Westernized artists refer to Roy's work as "mere folk art." Roy does not care. "Don't think I'll change my style," he says. Artist Roy, trained at Calcutta's Government School of Art, spent 15 years as a successful dauber of polite European-type landscapes that looked good in the best Indian homes. Then, at the age of 34, he got bored and decided to look at his country again through Indian eyes. Going back to the villages of his native Bengal, he learned about local folklore...
Today, at 66, Roy sells his pictures as fast as he can paint them. Manhattan's gallerygoers found Roy's work exciting. By the end of the show's first week half of the 27 paintings and drawings had been sold. Back in Calcutta, Jamini Roy would take the news with equanimity. Says he: "All I really need in life is a simple earthen pot for food and a straw mat to sleep on. They are the only real things in life...