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...beaten in a Lucknow demonstration against the Simon Commission in 1928. During a National Week demonstration in 1932 his mother was beaten and left unconscious on the side of the road near her home in Allahabad. She was dead now, and so were his father and his wife Kamala, all helped along to funeral pyres on the banks of the Ganges by their work in India's struggle for independence. There was cold fury in him at the Himalayan stupidity of Tory imperialists, and bitterness at the failure of the West he understood to meet the East, which...
Before he could make human beings of the waifs, Amala and Kamala, Singh had to break them of their deeply ingrained wolf ways. They had to be tied into bed, tore off clothing as savagely as wolf cubs, dreaded daylight, at night howled eerily as they had with the jungle pack, at ten, one and three o'clock. They lapped milk from a dish in imitation of the orphanage dogs, whose company they preferred to other children's. They craved raw meat, and Kamala was once caught devouring chicken entrails which her sensitive wolf-nose had located...
Humanizing of Kamala, the elder, was hindered by the death of Amala, whose wolf-ways were not so set. But like a dog, Kamala in time came to trust Mrs. Singh, whose hand always fed her. She became "a pathetic little subnormal, but clearly not idiotic, human being." Her accomplishments: a vocabulary of 50 words, interest in clothing (if it was red), ability to run simple errands and play with other children. Kamala died at 17, unmarried...
...nevertheless, are the cases, authenticated to the satisfaction of science, of moppets growing up in forest or jungle without human contacts, whether with or without animal foster parents. One authentic woodland waif was the "Wild Boy of Aveyron," found in a French forest in 1799. Others were Amala and Kamala, two children discovered, in 1921, living in a cave in India with wolves...
Phya Vijitavongs, 52, recently appointed Siamese Minister to the U. S., walked majestically down the gangplank of the Adriatic last week, paused in Manhattan, then left for Washington, accompanied by his son Dej Sudasna, 14, and his daughter Kamala Sudasna, 13. His first official announcement was that the sacred Siamese white elephant, now in the London Zoological Gardens, would be brought to the U. S. for the winter...