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...subcontinent neighbors, who share a porous 1,500-mile border. In recent weeks there have been rumors in Dacca - vehemently denied in New Delhi - of border incursions by Indian troops. One Dacca version is that India wants to stir up unrest among Bangladesh's 10 million Hindus, thus encouraging them to flee to India as they did in 1971. India, according to this scenario, would use the ensuing chaos as a pretext for launching a full-scale invasion. Foreign diplomats in Dacca regard the rumor as implausible...
...Vilayat narrated from the high cathedral pulpit as the Sufi choir sang themes from various religions and a small orchestra, complete with conch and sitar, emitted a variety of sounds. The sequence of the performance, if not the message, is borrowed from the Christian Eucharist. In each section, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Christians and Moslems are given a turn to express their devotion. As the Mass ends, Pir Vilayat intones: "I am the One I love, there is but One. One in all. All in One." With that, the cast bursts into a romping "Alleluia" song and dance, urging the audience...
...exactly the opposite of what Moses had in mind. In the climactic Resurrection scene, Jesus joins Elijah, Mohammed, Buddha and Shiva in ascending the stage's tiers toward God. Yet for Christians (presumably even for New York Episcopalians), Jesus is thought to be part of the Godhead. To Hindus, Shiva the Destroyer-Restorer is one of the greatest of gods. Odd company indeed for Mohammed, a prophet who never considered himself to be more than a mere human. For Americanized Sufis, of course, such matters are rationalist nitpicking...
...India was an arena of contradictions. Three hundred million Hindus and 100 million Moslems were learning that they hated the occupying British only slightly less than they hated each other. There were 3 million walking skeletons in Calcutta; simultaneously, some of the country's 565 maharajahs continued to test the aphrodisiacal powers of crushed diamonds. The viceroy's house in New Delhi employed nearly 5,000 servants and 418 gardeners. But back home, England reeled under postwar debts and shortages. Coal was scarce, and a bottle of liquor cost $35. For reasons as much financial as idealistic...
...have learned something since last week." The Mahatma continues to learn; he becomes at last India's soul and conscience. The most moving pages of Freedom at Midnight show him doing what battalions of soldiers could not: preventing by his frail presence the slaughter of Moslems and Hindus in Calcutta...