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Every week a 25-lb. package of plastic printing plates flies 12,000 airline miles from Chicago to New Delhi. There the Army puts the plates on the presses of the famous Hindustan Times (published by Devadas Gandhi, the Mahatma's third son). As fast as copies come off the press Army transport planes rush them west to Karachi, south to Agra, east to Calcutta and on to our airfields in Assam. There some of the copies are piled into Army trucks bound for the new Ledo Road that American boys are building across Burma into China. Others...
...Hindustan Times...
...foreseen as perhaps the greatest single result to be expected from World War II. There was one great sign last week of that awakening, end of its mood. From India the leaders of the United Nations were challenged to state their ultimate aims in the Pacific area. Said the Hindustan Times, semi-official organ of India's Congress party...
With the Mahatma and other Indian leaders silently bookworming through Lord Linlithgow's 350 pages last week, Indian editors, according to their mood, either admitted "we shall have to bear it" (Hindustan Times) or blazed "fling the Report back in the teeth of those having the audacity to offer it!" (Bombay Forward...
...most authentic, polished fashion they seek out the Hindu Dancer Uday Shankar, protege of the late Maharaja of Jhalawar. who studied at the London Royal College of Arts, forsook painting to dance with the late Anna Pavlowa. forsook Pavlowa to research the old dances and music of Hindustan...