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...course: more socialism at home, more flirting with Communism abroad. "Gandhi often renounced active membership in the Congress Party when he had difficulties," recalled the Free Press Journal of Bombay. "[Nehru] has been unable to conceal his impatience with India's slow progress toward the Socialist State," reported Calcutta's influential Amrita Bazar Patrika...
...Ramayana, by Aubrey Menen. One of the best satirists between New York and Calcutta pokes good fun at a great Hindu epic and at the human race (TIME, Sept...
...newspapers . . ." In India he met the enemy face to face-in Assam villages, where "even the small children gathered with their elders ... to chorus Jai to the Red flag"; in Hyderabad, where scarcely a day goes by without a Brahman being assassinated by the "Red revolutionists"; in Calcutta, where the hammer and sickle is nailed to a wall of the seamen's union; in the frontier city of Darjeeling, where Tibetan Communists "squeeze across the border now and then." Soviet propaganda was everywhere, blanketing the bookshops, nudging Hollywood aside in the movie theaters. In one frontier district, Redding reports...
...India's University of Calcutta, says Eells, "the best estimate it was possible to obtain . . . was that about 8% of the students were card-carrying members of the Communist Party, about 40% were fellow travelers, and at least 70% were anti-American." Communist students spend much of their time distributing pamphlets and papers through nearby villages, are able to pick up Soviet literature at any bookstall for comparatively little-11? for a Life of Lenin, one rupee (21?) for his complete works. In Delhi, he adds, "we learned of the policy of the Soviet Embassy to invite all students...
...last it had won a "trade pact" with Red China. The terms: India to withdraw a tiny garrison it has maintained in Tibet for years to protect Indian merchants and pilgrims; India to let Red China set up "trade missions" (with diplomatic immunity) inside India at New Delhi, Calcutta, Kalimpong; Indians to seek entry into Tibet only along six specified passes and not to seek entry at all into the "closed territory" of Sinkiang. India also for the first time recognized Tibet as an integral part of Red China...