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...elaborate splendor of Indian carpets and inlaid furniture last week were close to 100 watercolors that had once sold for a penny and under. They dated from 1830 to 1930, and all came from the environs of a temple to Kali, wife of the Hindu god Shiva, in Calcutta...
...Kalighat painting." Kalighat pictures covered an extraordinary range of subject matter, from divinities to profanities. They were made to sell as souvenirs to pilgrims at the temple steps. The art first came into being when British colonists brought cheap paper and the technique of painting with transparent watercolor to Calcutta. It died when machine-printed cards and chromos undercut sales...
American travelers are often shocked at the ragged beggars who gather around the cathedrals of Europe, the mosques and holy places of the Orient. The sight of a paretic Venetian pandering his nine-year-old daughter, or of a Calcutta mendicant clutching the withered body of a dead baby with one hand, a beggar's bowl in the other, is not easily forgotten. In such situations, Americans often assume the smug attitude that such things are not done at home; in the good old U.S.A., everything is organized, charity is tidily and efficiently handled...
...force cadets. The army should "imbibe the spirit of invincibility and steadfastness from the noble Himalayas" . . . "If the strength of Pakistan's army increases with U.S. aid . . . this will disturb without fail the entire balance of power in this region." Nehru told some 500,000 in Calcutta that he would oppose Communism if it disturbed the peace, but that the U.S.-Pakistan reports are "uppermost in the mind of every thinking Indian." Nehru fired off another bristling note to Pakistan, the Times of India reported, "so that India's case will not go by default, and her policy...
Last week, as it celebrated its 475th anniversary with a modest dinner in Manhattan (and no ceremony at all in London), the Press could boast branch offices in Melbourne, Toronto. Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Wellington, Karachi, Glasgow, Cape Town and Ibadan, as well as a whole separate corporation in the United States. It is the only book publisher with its own paper mill; it has the world's largest permanent catalogue (10,000 titles), (the largest stock 15 million volumes) and probably the biggest sales (nearly 10 million books a year from the British list alone). The grandfather...