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...three-month extension of his visa to stay in India, busied himself again by day shooting documentary films in the sweltering humidity of Bombay. As proof of his good intentions, Rossellini abandoned his suite in the Taj Mahal Hotel that connected with the suite of exotic Sonali Das Gupta, 27, wife of an Indian movie director. He moved down the hall a piece to Room 561, a cubbyhole without air conditioning. Sonali, whose husband is now reported determined to divorce her, was dead set on leaving India and realizing her long-squelched (by hubby) ambition to become a big-name...
Even India's Prime Minister Nehru was dragged into the international to-do over the "business relationship" between Italian Film Director Roberto Rossellini and his connecting-suite neighbor in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, high-caste Siren Sonoli Das Gupta, 27, wife of an Indian movie director. A delegation from the family of doe-eyed Sonali, mother of two sons, called on Nehru with the obvious purpose of persuading him to rid Sonali of Rossellini, 51. They hinted that Rossellini claimed to be a pal of Nehru's. Neutralist Nehru took sides instanter. "That rascal!" cried...
...hero and plot seemed the mixture as before. In Bombay, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, in India since January to shoot documentary films, was lodged in Room 544A of the big, baroque Taj Mahal Hotel. Next door, in connecting Suite 545, was ensconced a tall Indian woman named Sonali Das Gupta, 27, mother of two boys and wife of one of India's top film producers, Hari Das Gupta. Sonali had larger accommodations, presumably because her 6-month-old son was sometimes brought to stay with her there. The couple seldom emerged from their quarters even for meals...
...Author Hale, "was a perennial twister of the British lion's tail," and had an eager accomplice, in Anglophobe Marx. Some of Marx's bitterest tirades for the Tribune, e.g., his dispatch on the plight of British workers during the depressed 18503, were bodily incorporated into his Das Kapital...
...with the U.S. press, Hale suggests, is that "the Tribune was not only Marx's meal ticket but his experimental outlet for agitation and ideas during the most creative period in his life. Had there been no Tribune sustaining him, there might possibly-who knows?-have been no Das Kapital. And had there been no Das Kapital, would there have been a Lenin and a Stalin? And without Marxist Lenin and Stalin, in turn, would there have been...