Word: dutt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer a young rock singer (Michael York) visits India searching for the new sound of the sitar. He pledges his fealty to a musician-mystic (Utpal Dutt) and becomes involved with a clattering entourage of fellow acolytes, musicians and the mandatory wide-eyed British bird (Rita Tushingham). Like Mia Farrow with the Maharishi, the singer finds that his lessons are exercises in disenchantment. The guru prates of selflessness but demands instant obedience to his whims. He hints of asceticism and keeps two wives busy and jealous. He considers himself a brilliant musician -until his guru denounces his technique as commercial...
Violence came anyhow-from the Hindi-speaking Hindus who would form a minority in the new state. Protesting partition of Punjab, Yagya Dutt Sharma, 47, a leader of the militantly orthodox Jana Sangh Party, began a fast of his own in the marketplace of Amritsar. Refusing any sustenance except a few daily glassfuls of Gangajal-water from the Ganges-Sharma quickly lost 15 Ibs. in the first week, soon was unable...
...three disappointing years, Dutt sat in a one-room Calcutta office with no work in sight, gloomily recalling his rash promise to Kuljian to bring in contracts. Every year Kuljian went to India to encourage him to stick it out. Recalls Dutt: "He used to say, 'I envy you. You are young. Your country is growing; it has a tremendous future...
...last Dutt won a contract to build the $28 million Durgapur steam power plant in West Bengal. He got the job by combining the nationalistic appeal that Indian engineers would do most of the work with a reassuring promise that the U.S. Kuljian Corp. would stand by to assist. To the Indian government, it was an irresistible deal: because he designed the Bokaro steam plant, which became a model for all thermal plants in India, Harry Kuljian's name was already held in high regard in New Delhi...
Mixed Bag. After the Durgapur job, Kuljian Corp. of India was on its way. Dutt, who works a 13-hour day, now has $153 million worth of contracts, has twice moved his offices into larger quarters. Unlike many Indian businessmen, who will hire only natives of their own state, Dutt has collected 50 crack engineers from Punjab, Bengal, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. Says he, in words that could have come from Harry Kuljian himself: "If you have the ability, Kuljian will...