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THEROUX'S INCLINATION is obvious. Not particularly interested in the suburban soap-opera life of America or the decaying, over-exploited one of Europe, he has taken to the more exotic of the world's climates and locales. From the chatter and odor of the Howrah station in Calcutta to the more sympatico setting of Costa Rica, Theroux finds himself obsessed with a world beyond the borders of affluence and gratuitous soul-searchings. His proposition is pretty much a remedy for boredom--his own, and that of us who bother to take the train-rides with him. For what Paul...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: On the Road, Again | 4/20/1982 | See Source »

Three Widows. To all appearances, their appetites are unlimited. In a short story, Bank Clerk Malay Roychowdhury, 25, tells of a starving poet who first devours his fiancée, then his poetry notebook, then a building and Calcutta's huge Howrah Bridge. A poem by Schoolteacher Ghose crows that "I impregnated three widows at a time, and now I am lying in bed happy. What next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: The Hungry Generation | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

Calcuttans are waiting to see. Their city, as always, boils with activity night and day, restless and surcharged. In the evenings, families line the 1,500-ft. Howrah Bridge for a cooling touch of breeze from the distant sea, or stroll the green acres of Maidan Park. Holy men chant by lantern light as the devout perform their religious ablutions in the muddy water of the Hooghly. The bazaars are choked with wandering fiddlers, fortunetellers, cloth merchants, naked children, sidewalk barbers; every third man has fountain pens for sale. In their thousands, the always-hungry poor lie down on their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: PACKED & PESTILENTIAL TOWN | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

...last week, but fear lingered. The death toll of last fortnight's Hindu-Moslem rioting, which may never be finally totaled, exceeded 4,000. While the city's poor went hungry, food rotted on loading platforms. Both Hindus and Moslems, afraid of hostile neighbors, jammed the huge Howrah railway station, mobbed the trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Cows in Clive Street | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...sidewalks of Madras when he feels tired, or to declare himself a saint and sit waiting for disciples by the burning ghats of Benares; or to send out a seven-year-old child with a dead baby dangling from its hand to beg in Calcutta's Howrah railroad station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Long Shadow | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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