Word: haldipur
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...committee may hear the disciplinary cases of security force members and train members who are new to the force, Vivek Haldipur '79, a student patrol member, said yesterday...
...Vivek R. Haldipur '79, an Economics concentrator in Quincy House, lives in New Delhi, India...
Coming from a science-oriented student--even one who is now interested in Marx--this is believable. It does not make quite as much sense that Vivek Haldipur '78, an advanced standing student in economics from New Delhi, India, would also be reticent in talking about things in his country's recent history, but he is. He was in India when last summer's state of emergency was promulgated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Although Haldipur says he doesn't like labels, he describes himself as a Fabian Socialist--a Shavian type of belief which blends the benefits of elite...
...Haldipur is a calm and intense long-back-haired son of an academic civil servant, Columbia educated. He is the most politically committed foreign student I spoke to. His father was a "self-made man," Haldipur says, a member of a country family which settled, as poor people, in the city, a man who went to school so long that it created rifts with Haldipur's grandfather. Haldipur himself went to England on a two-year scholarship after a private school education in India--to Atlantic College in South Wales where there were students from "30 or 35 countries." Having...
...Still, Haldipur's hopes are not in America. He says that ordinary people and the elites have more day-to-day encounters in India. "You don't have to go to a party to meet people in Delhi," he says; "the guys selling cigarettes are quite happy to talk." Contact with the great mass of his countrymen, he says, is what he misses most while he's here; and he sums this Indian virtue up in the negative, contrasting it with the U.S. and calling it "lack of impersonality." He is the only elite third world student who said...
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