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Born. To Hope Cooke, 27, Manhattan-born socialite who left the U.S. five years ago to become Queen of the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim, and King Palden Thondup Namgyal, 44: their second child, first daughter (the King has three children by his first wife, who died in 1957); in Calcutta...
...Communists in West Bengal immediately organized a protest against the Congress Party takeover, and the result was violence in Calcutta, where workers closed down plants and offices, set fire to autos and battled police. Though no Communist himself, the Speaker of the West Bengal house chose to suspend the legislature rather than allow the new Congress-supported government to take office. In the volatile Punjab, religious leaders greeted the Congress move as an attack on the Sikhs and warned their followers to defend themselves. The Congress Party had used its muscle to recapture states that it could...
...Chinese have given a shoe factory, a warehouse complex and a highway that cuts strategically through the mountains from Red-held Tibet to Katmandu. India, which dominates Nepal's foreign commerce and is pledged to defend the kingdom, has built a rival road south from Katmandu toward Calcutta. The Russians have chipped in with a cigarette plant and a sugar refinery. The U.S. is working on rural development, malaria eradication, family planning and education. It also hopes to participate, along with India, Britain and Russia, in Mahendra's most ambitious scheme: a third major highway that will open...
...that." A sense of dislocation and exile comes naturally to him. The son of a Czech doctor, Tom Stoppard was born Tom Straussler. The family moved to Singapore when he was two and his father was killed in World War II. Tom went to school and lived in Darjeeling, Calcutta, Delhi and Lahore before coming to England at the age of nine and taking his stepfather's name. His first full-length play was aired over British television three days after President Kennedy's assassination. "It wasn't," he says, "the greatest week to have a comedy...
...CITY. Satyajit Ray has taken a simple tale of six people living in a Calcutta tenement and fashioned an eloquent testimonial to the courage of ordinary people facing ordinary problems...