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...state of learning at some schools in India. When a proctor at Satna College in Madhya Pradesh complained that students were copying examination answers from their textbooks, the students staged a minor riot. At Mainpuri a proctor who caught students cribbing was hacked to death with knives. In Gorakhpur, a high school student brought his homicidal Alsatian dog to bare his fangs at any teacher who tried to interfere with his right to cheat. Cheating, of course, is not much of an issue on U.S. campuses these days. With all the student unrest and closed-down universities, there...
...observes "the ceremonial washing of the genitals in public before prayers." He ponders four sweepers whose ritual effort only makes a hotel staircase dirtier than before "They are not required to clean. That is a subsidiary part of their function, which is to be sweepers, degraded beings." In Gorakhpur his critical gaze falls on the bazaar: "The sweetshops are required to have glass cases; the cases accordingly stand, quite empty, next to the heaps of exposed sweets." Naipaul's candid view of India is attenuated, unfortunately, by a slightly patronizing air. The squalid, unpleasant truths are trotted...
...press, both League and Congress are very violent, and speeches of leaders on both sides are continually inciting bloodshed. At last week's Hindu Mahasabha* Session at Gorakhpur, the mention of Nehru's name was greeted with shouts of 'Traitor!' At the conclusion of a violent speech, a member of the audience climbed on the platform, cut his hand, and offered blood then & there. The recent Sind election campaign generally consisted of speeches of vilification, one community v. another...
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