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Lack of Concern. Shitala's scourge has been particularly felt in the states of Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Assam. Yet no where has the goddess lashed harder than in Bihar. With 70,393 reported cases, that state accounts for 60% of the world's current total of known smallpox victims...
...Gandhi fears that if the Andhras are allowed to have their own separate state, it will open a Pandora's box of similar demands in other states plagued by economic disparities. Already, factions in her home state of Uttar Pradesh, as well as in Madhya Pradesh and Bihar, have made known their intention to seek realignment along economic lines. On the other hand, dividing Andhra Pradesh into two states may be the most equitable solution, since the Telanganans are as eager to have a separate state of their own as the Andhras...
...American educator who feels harried by student protests might consider the state of learning at some schools in India. When a proctor at Satna College in Madhya Pradesh complained that students were copying examination answers from their textbooks, the students staged a minor riot. At Mainpuri a proctor who caught students cribbing was hacked to death with knives. In Gorakhpur, a high school student brought his homicidal Alsatian dog to bare his fangs at any teacher who tried to interfere with his right to cheat. Cheating, of course, is not much of an issue on U.S. campuses these days. With...
What makes Indian folk art engaging, despite its perishable wood and terra cotta, are the extravagant whimsies with which its untutored creators embellish formal Hindu legend and gods. The destroyer Shiva, as portrayed by the aboriginal Maria tribe of Madhya Pradesh in a ritual mask, takes on the unkempt, disheveled appearance of a wandering mendicant...
...economic planning, free enterprise to attract foreign investment, a harder line against Pakistan and China, and the development of a nuclear bomb for India. Growing steadily, it won control of the city of Delhi and domination of the opposition coalitions in the two key states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. In last year's national parliamentary elections, the Jana Sangh rolled up 14 million votes-second only to the ruling Congress Party's 59 million-and increased its parliamentary strength from 14 to 35 seats...