Word: ceylonization
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...months ahead, he will hardly take it easy. In the works are plans to visit Ceylon and Bhutan, a possible trip to Washington and, perhaps later, a journey to Moscow, which was originally planned for this month. Also ahead is another round of talks on the Kashmir problem with the Pakistanis. Looming over everything is the need to cope with India's growing food problem. Last week with Shastri up and around again, the government decreed a comprehensive system of price controls for wheat and rice. Then it launched a series of police raids on grain speculators, turning...
...Ceylon," he concluded obliquely, "is the most erotically underdeveloped country in the world...
Panelist Constantine Trypanis, of Oxford, asked if any country represented by members of the audience still produced long narrative poems. "Long poems are a thing of the past," a man from Ceylon answered. He added that, although ten years ago Ceylonese poetry was more patriotic, now it is a mixture of religious and love themes...
...Indian officials are bitter, nonetheless, privately describe Ne Win's nationalization measures as a shabby trick to strip the Indian community of its property with no compensation at all. Nor is Burma's treatment of its Indian minority an isolated case. In Ceylon, where nearly 700,000 Indian plantation workers and tradesmen live as "stateless persons," the regime has launched a "Ceylonization of trade" campaign. And what that might very well mean is yet another mass exodus of Indians...
...grave. The new ruling will probably be of most help to bishops in the predominantly Buddhist countries of Asia, where burial is regarded as a revolting and disrespectful custom. Japanese Catholics have already drawn up a cremation rite, and it is expected that church leaders in India, Ceylon and Burma will eventually follow suit...