Word: orissa
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...area of East Pakistan, killing as many as 500,000. Last week the ghastly business of counting bodies along the bay's palm-fringed coastline was under way again. A storm with shrieking 120-m.p.h. winds, torrential rains and a 15-ft. tidal wave struck India's Orissa State, southwest of Calcutta. The death toll was set officially at 12,000, though unofficial estimates indicated that it could be closer to 25,000. Fully 1,000,000 were left homeless. Many of the victims were refugees who had poured out of East Pakistan to escape the man-made...
After one night of terror, the storm's fury abated. Indian federal and state governments moved quickly to provide aid to the victims of Orissa. Soldiers helped in the digging-out process while military planes dropped supplies to the survivors. Menial laborers, most of them belonging to India's "untouchable" caste, were brought in to help dispose of the bodies...
Many in India wondered aloud why the government had not taken steps to prepare Orissa for the cyclone. When it was first spotted and reported by a U.S. weather satellite a full day before it hit land, the storm seemed to be headed for the very area of East Pakistan that was devastated last year. Then it changed direction, but the satellite forecast well in advance that it was headed for Orissa. "The authorities seem always caught unawares by calamities, even when they are at least partially foreseeable," said the Statesman, one of India's leading dailies. "The traditional...
...Calcutta because it is the bahana, or mount, of Shashti, the Bengalese goddess of fecundity. Brightly colored Kalighat paintings of cats were made by street painters for sale to pilgrims to Calcutta's Temple of Kali. One of the most impressive objects is a brass figurine from Orissa; it shows the hero Krishna trying to deceive one of his admirers by assuming the head of a peacock, the body of a tiger, the hump of a camel, one leg of an elephant, one leg of a horse, and one hand of a girl holding a flower. The devotee, says...
...majority for the party had it stayed united. Similarly in Bihar, the man who has been sworn in as the new Chief Minister, is Mr. Mahamaya Prasad Sinha, the leader of Jana Kranti Dal, a breakaway wing of the state Congress. Again, the coalition which has captured power in Orissa consists of the Jana Congress or People's Congress, a breakaway splinter of the state Congress and the Swatantra or Freedom Party...