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Word: howrah (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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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 »

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