Word: calcuttas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire movie takes place during Dennis Barlow's unlikely visit to the United States. He was at the airport in London when suddenly he became the ten millionth person to see someone off and won a free trip to Calcutta or Los Angeles. Poor guy chose you-know-what and plunged himself into an incredible chamber of horrors. Shortly after Barlow's arrival his British uncle, a failure in the movie industry, commits suicide, leaving the hapless boy to make all the funeral arrangements--and what funeral arrangements...
...grain direct from farmers and selling it in government-run "fair-price shops" in the cities. Yet this plan has a drawback, for it attracts peasants from the countryside to the cities in search of lower food prices. Already 4,000 families from West Bengal villages have streamed into Calcutta, swelling the city's army of derelicts...
...address in Madras last week, Shastri talked mostly about the border war, passed by the food crisis with the remark that "two months hence we may have to face special difficulties." Few Indians have responded to his appeal to eat less. Fewer still are growing gardens. The Royal Calcutta Turf Club at first voted to dig up its emerald inner oval for crops, but so far the immaculate infield remains untouched...
Tougher & Faster. El Tor, long underestimated, is now bullying "classical" cholera off the map. In the British Medical Journal, Calcutta's Dr. Sachimohan Mukerjee reports evidence that if old-fashioned cholera and El Tor bacilli are put into the same test tube or invade the same human victim, El Tor will completely crowd out the "classical" vibrios. Not only is it a tougher bug; it also spreads faster. And a recovered El Tor victim may remain a menace by continuing to excrete the bacilli for as long as six months, as against a mere three weeks after classical cholera...
Charulata and Bhupati are a childless couple, entering their thirties in Calcutta of the 1880's. Offspring carry special importance in the Indian tradition, and Bhupati attempts to drown his frustration in overdevotion to a liberal newspaper he has founded. Charulata would like to write poetry, but is prevented by the constrictions placed on women in Indian society...