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...Kamala Lakhdhir, Adams House...
...mother Kamala was a demure and subservient woman who had been found for Nehru by his father; it was an arranged marriage, and the acquired bride was greatly scorned by Nehru's Westernized female relatives. While the men were in prison, Kamala developed tuberculosis, so she was sent to Switzerland to convalesce. Indira went with her, to two bleak years at a school near Geneva; then, after Kamala's death, she went on to Somerville, a women's college at Oxford. One relief from her loneliness was a penniless but galvanizing Indian student in London, Feroze Gandhi...
Feroze had been studying in Allahabad some years earlier when the sickly Kamala collapsed while marching in an anti-British demonstration outside his college. He took her home, became slightly infatuated with her and lingered around the house as a friend of the family's. He hardly noticed Indira, who was five years younger than he. But after the two had returned home to India from blitzed and threatened London, Indira announced in 1941 that they wanted to get married. Nehru was dismayed; he needed Indira to run his household. Feroze had no money, no job. "Nobody wanted that...
...cameo roles, such as Yente the match-maker (Kamala Soparker) and the Rabbi (Peter Reale) are also noteworthy, While both characters are traditional stereotypes, Soparker and Reale put in enough energy to keep them from going state. In fact, the only minor character that does not transcend his stereotype is the Fiddler himself, whose obviously fake board emphasizes his obviously fake fiddling. But since the fiddler mainly appears on the rooftop, or peaks around the corner of the set, he does not direct from the overall effect...
...Square also houses approximately 26 recognized churches, and a panoply of ethnic groups to fill them--Russians, Greeks, Haitians, West Indians, Portuguese, Orientals--as well as a growing number of poor people. There are markets which cater to a world of culinary and other needs. There is the Kamala Devi Indian imports store at 1741 Mass Ave, there is a West Indian music store, a YMCA, an Acupuncture Center at 380 Green Street, and Shelter, Inc., a recently-formed overnight hostel for homeless men and women...