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...have mountains like these in America? American writers--all they are concerned about is India's poverty. Why doesn't somebody write something about how glorious the Himalayas are and make us look a little bit better to the rest of the world?" To these college students from Calcutta, all of India was in these mountains. They described a country that was eternal, that could never perish as civilizations have elsewhere in the world. The Himalayas and the Ganges that flows from their northern slopes inspire a tranquility and stoic contentment that come from a lack of ambition...
...river that runs through that shady gorge joins another further downstream, and many more before it descends from the mountains near the city of Rishikesh in Northern India. It is the holy river Ganges, which flows more than a thousand miles south to Calcutta, where the boys are from. A visitor would recognize no similarity between the impossibly quiet life of the mountain landscape and the bustle of a city that has become synonymous for unimaginable squalor and degradation. Its reputation transcends differences among cultures and continents but serves as a worst-case scenario for the human condition...
...They live in the brightly painted, concrete homes of the city. Few, if any, neighborhoods are segregated from the shortage of food and living space that pervades the city, but some "nicer" areas stand out. In one of these residential neighborhoods, I had dinner with a professor at a Calcutta institute for managerial studies. He talked of the frustrations of working to improve health and sanitation conditions, the impracticability of any attempts at concerted policies, and the tight pinch of a runaway inflation rate on all but the wealthiest members of the country's industrial establishment. "When we graduated from...
...When I first rode the subways, I thought I was on a prison train," says Sashi Ray, who emigrated from India in 1976. "Now, when I compare the streets of Calcutta to the subways, I must confess the subways are by far the worse...
Ultimately, he hopes, a limb usable both in land and on water will be fashioned. And though he stresses he is unsure what he will do with himself after returning to Calcutta, he says he will maintain an interest in the project "because it's something I can appreciate more than other people...