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India's hotels in New Delhi, Calcutta and Bombay are on a par with the Western world's finest, charge around $17 per day for an air-conditioned double room with meals, and serve splendid Indian food, e.g., curried shrimp, Tandoori chicken fried with spices. What to buy in India: fine carved ivory, emeralds and other gems well under U.S. prices, silk scarves and $10 saris, which local dressmakers turn info evening dresses for $40 v. $150 for sari dresses in the U.S. Average touring cost: about $26 per day per person...
Thomas Macaulay and a host of lesser chroniclers have left one terrible night in India indelibly stamped upon the world's memory. It was that night in June 1756, when 123 prisoners, many of them British soldiers, died of suffocation in "the black hole of Calcutta," a lockup in Fort William, 18 ft. long by 15ft. wide-an outrage for which the Nawab Sirajud-daula was later put to death by Clive of India...
...Calcutta's Dr. Sudhir Nath Sanyal reports a high degree of success in cutting down the birth rate by using metaxylohydroquinone an extract derived originally from the common Indian garden pea* (Pisum sativum), now synthesized in the laboratory. Taken by mouth, it cut the birth rate among 232 women by about two-thirds over a 15-month period, he reports. Some U.S. researchers scoffed at Dr. Sanyal's methods and results; others listened with interest because they consider him a careful, conscientious worker. The Indian government rated his findings worth a full-scale trial...
Galbraith, currently on sabbatical leave, will serve as adviser to the Planning Commission of the Indian Government, while on the staff of the Indian Statistical Institute of Calcutta, according to a Madras newspaper, "The Hindu." He is expected to return to Cambridge in September...
Nothing could please the Communists more, and at week's end they were pressing their advantage. They paralyzed Calcutta with a strike of 2,000,000 workers to demand a bigger chunk of Bihar State for West Bengal. Across India, Sikhs rioted in Amritsar, and a Sikh leader told a cheering audience: "If Sikh demands are not met, the Bombay drama may be repeated in the Punjab...