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...that so thoroughly detailed the art of love that its translators still usually leave several key words in Sanskrit. Last week, in a land that has become so straitly laced that its movie heroines must burst into song rather than be kissed, five scruffy young poets were hauled into Calcutta's dreary Bankshall Court for publishing works that would have melted even Vātsyāyana's pen. The Hungry Generation had arrived...
Faced with a rising tide of criticism, Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri decided that he needed to get away from his desk for some hard political barn storming. Last week he flew to Calcutta to make his first public appearance outside New Delhi since he took office...
...city needed his attention more than Calcutta (pop. 3,000,000), the steaming factory and port of eastern India. The city's labor force was in an ugly mood: some 3,000 civil servants had been on strike for higher bonus payments, and the leftist labor unions were hotly agitating for a general work stoppage...
Then, over crowd-lined streets, he headed downtown for conferences with local Congress Party leaders, after which he appeared on the Maidan, a big, grassy plain in the heart of Calcutta, to give a crowd of 350,000 an opportunity for darshana - a sort of blessed contact through sight - and, more important, a major political speech plugging his own new brand of neutralism for India...
...Kerala state government at a combined wage of $84 per month, well above India's average, these days are forced to halve the family's milk consumption, cut out eggs entirely, and stretch the supply of rice by eating it in the form of soupy gruel. A Calcutta schoolteacher who makes $55 gives his children two meals a day, but can afford to eat only once daily himself. Worse off still is the hapless Bombay textile mill worker, who must overspend by $6 monthly and make up his deficit by borrowing from money lenders...