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...gooders used to be rare among Hindus, with their belief in the inescapability of Karma and the illusory nature of the created world. But Calcutta's Rameshwar Tantia is a new kind of Hindu; he likes action-especially for his own home region of Marwar, in western Rajasthan. and for all the people in the surrounding desert country. A wealthy businessman (jute, tea, mining), 45-year-old Philanthropist Tantia has arranged new marriages for poor widows, paying the indispensable dowries out of his own pocket. His latest good work: uncovering the Bhil ladies...
...facts about the U.S. or for a student health center. And it was in trying to fill these needs that most groups ran into trouble. For America's sterco-typical desire to "do good" is often suspect, especially in former colonial territories. It was not surprising that Americans in Calcutta found it difficult to induce Indian students to join them in a village work project--no matter how much the students needed the work and the village needed the project...
...into Lowell's house system, then beginning to boom. Although several alumni suggested an integration of the commuters into the houses as non-resident members, a lunchroom opened in the basement of Phillips Brooks House. But the crowded, hot, and messy corner was soon called "The Black Hole of Calcutta...
...grown from 5.4% to 22% and in the Punjab from 7% to 16.7%. India's Communists, with only 60,000 card-carrying members, hold 26 seats in the New Delhi Parliament, have gained effective control of 800,000 trade unionists; they can paralyze India's biggest city, Calcutta, at will. In impoverished India the Communists also have excellent future prospects: the nation's urban unemployment is increasing by 500,000 a year; 15 million families are unable to make a decent living upon India's arid land. India's current rate of industrial investment...
Among India's many minorities are its 20,000 Chinese, a mere handful among India's 360 millions. Some of them have been distressed by Nehru's friendly gestures towards Communist China. Four weeks ago Li Wei-ping, a prominent merchant and former president of the Calcutta Chinese Chamber of Commerce, made a speech roundly denouncing Red China's Mao Tse-tung. Dr. C. S. Liu, who edits the Chinese-language daily, Chinese Journal of India, reported the speech in his paper. Last week the Indian government jailed Merchant Li without bail under a law called...