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...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...
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...
ALFRED MARTIN Calcutta...
...word Calcutta to most Americans, and they think of saried Indians bathing in the Ganges and sacred cows basking in the middle of dirty thoroughfares. But say Calcutta to the member of a golf club, and he is apt to look nervously to either side and whisper, "Shhhh! How did you know we were having one this year?" Until 1955, a Calcutta was an integral -and often the most fun-part of every golf tournament. A few days before a member-member tournament, or on the night before a member-guest, a properly anointed auctioneer would "sell" each team...
...perennial problem of providing enough food for a population that is growing at a rate of 3% a year. The cause of last year's food crisis was simple enough: for three straight years, Indian grain production remained static at 80 million tons. Sharp traders from Bombay to Calcutta capitalized on the underproduction by buying up wheat in the fields, then quietly ordering farmers to hold their crops for future delivery after prices had soared higher. In Shastri's home state, wheat that had been selling for $173.25 per ton doubled in price in a matter of weeks...