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...over the subcontinent, candidates for the 494 seats in the Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) and 2,930 seats in 13 state assemblies were on the stump. Groups of Communist Party workers gathered in Calcutta streets to act out skits on such issues as high prices, high rents and poor public transportation. A candidate in the Punjab campaigned from his jail cell; he was accused of trying to assassinate his opponent. In the Himalayan constituency of Ranikhet, a Congress Party aspirant promised to deal with his district's most urgent problem-a tiger that has so far devoured...
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...office on Calcutta's fashionable Park Street last week, fluorescent lights burned late into the night as a team of engineers bent over their drawing boards rushing to complete plans for Asia's biggest steam power plant. By 1964 the 300 megawatt Bandel power station is scheduled to supply badly needed electricity to Calcutta's industrial belt. But almost as significant to the Indian economy as the $54 million project itself is the fact that the engineers designing it are all Indians-members of Kuljian Corp. of India, the first Indian-run consulting engineering firm capable...
...three disappointing years, Dutt sat in a one-room Calcutta office with no work in sight, gloomily recalling his rash promise to Kuljian to bring in contracts. Every year Kuljian went to India to encourage him to stick it out. Recalls Dutt: "He used to say, 'I envy you. You are young. Your country is growing; it has a tremendous future...
...Harvard University Glee Club, 61 members strong, stormed into India yesterday in its whirlwind concert tour of the Far East. The choral group sings tonight and tomorrow at the New Empire Theater in Calcutta, and then moves on to Madras, Delhi, and Bombay before flying to Greece on Aug. 13. The tour winds...