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...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...
...CITY. Out of the disarmingly simple story of a Calcutta housewife forced to seek employment and the effect this has on her and her family, Indian Director Satyajit Ray has fashioned a quietly superlative epic...
Into a squalid Calcutta tenement apartment six lives are crowded: a gentle, ineffectual bank clerk, his wife and their small son, his parents and his sister. Money is scarce, and the wife takes a job selling home appliances from door to door. The old couple are shocked by the idea of a woman working. The husband's pride, too, is wounded, but the bank fails and he must accept the fact that the wife is now the family's sole breadwinner. In the end, she quarrels with her employer and quits. Husband and wife join hands to find...
INDIA too is expecting an enormous turnout of tourists this year. And if they ever get beyond haggling with the marketplace throngs of Delhi and Calcutta, visitors can luxuriate in the Shangri-lalike valleys of Kashmir, where they can rent a houseboat for as little as $49 a week and drift about the placid, clear mountain lakes. For the more rugged visitor, Nepal has the Tigertops Hotel, which offers its guests an elephant-back excursion through the jungles. For the athletic, there is a $300-a-week hiking trip through tiny Buddhist villages, across flower-carpeted Himalayan meadows...
Today's CRIMSON Supplement includes articles on Asia by three of this year's Nieman Fellows -- newsmen studying for a year at Harvard. They are Hiranmay Karlekar, of the Hindustan Standard, Calcutta, India; Bank hyun Lim, of the Chongro-ku, Seoul, Korea, and Satoshi Ogawa, of the Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan...