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...Allahabad, Calcutta, and Bombay, Freidel participated in seminars sponsored by the USIA for people interested in teaching American studies in Indian universities. His talks traced the political and economic history of the United States from 1933 to the present...
With Camera Obscura. The Daniells landed in Calcutta in 1786. spent two years making sketches of the city for a series of aquatints. The pictures were published back in England with such success that the artists decided to penetrate into upper India on "guiltless spoliations'' of more picturesque material. Laden with tents, palanquins, great stocks of paper, canvas, paints, pencils, a camera obscura (for sketching views projected through a lens) and a "perambulator" (for measuring their mileage), the Daniells and a retinue of servants set out by boat to sketch Mother India. So adventurous and rewarding were their...
...take the chill off a freezing morning. Donald Connery, fresh from the cooler precincts of Moscow, rode the train north to such unemployment spots as Liverpool and Newcastle-on-Tyne. Though Connery's mother was born on the Tyne, he reports, "I have heard more understandable English in Calcutta and Katmandu than in some stretches of North England." Robert Ball, who did the major economic reporting of Britain, had previously reported for many years in postwar Germany. "Most of what I have read about Britain in recent years emphasized the changes taking place here," he says. "Perhaps that...
...decree was good news to India's flourishing bootleggers. Mohandas Gandhi's abstinence led most states to establish liquor-control laws; today they range from total prohibition in Madras, Bombay and Gujarat, to restrictions in Calcutta (every Wednesday is a dry day) and New Delhi (two dry days per week...
Bartered Gains. There is still considerable dispute over how little or how much the Chinese were after in their attack on India. One theory held by some leading Indian military men is that the Reds want eventually to drive as far as Calcutta, thereby outflanking all of Southeast Asia. In such a drive, the Chinese would be able to take advantage of anti-Indian feeling along the way, notably among the rebellious Nagas in East Assam, and in the border state of Sikkim. Reaching Calcutta, perhaps the world's most miserable city, where 125,000 homeless persons sleep...