Word: punjab
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...give them a view of the Alps. On its surface of rough poured concrete, the marks of wooden forms remained like a touch of man's hand-a touch that so many modern glass-and-steel structures lack. At Chandigarh, the new governmental seat of the state of Punjab in India, Corbu set about making battlements on a plain. Rendering to God as well as man, he designed a chapel at Ronchamp, France, with a roof shaped like a nun's coif (the shape also helps to project a preacher's voice). His only U.S. building...
...frug in a sari while folding her hands in the traditional greeting of namaste. His home must be decorated in the best Western decor, but carry at least one careful Indian touch-perhaps a Mogul miniature or a divan with a brightly colored, hand-loomed bolster from the Punjab. Clubs are one British social heritage that upper-class Indians will not revolt against, perhaps because they were excluded in the days of the British raj. Today high-caste Indians are just as cutting to members of lesser castes as the Englishman was to "wogs." Indian intellectual life has fared...
Political Potatoes. The price-resistance movement swept through New Delhi. Housewives banded together to buy milk directly from producers. Brij Mohan, 38, a city councilor, started trucking in potatoes from the Punjab, sold them at artificially low prices. "These are political potatoes, which can appear only once a year," said a sour grocer watching Mohan with scales in hand dispensing potatoes on the sidewalk. But the campaign forced city merchants to lower their prices, and aroused public opinion as never before...
...them." Flowing Night Soil. During his three months in office, punctuated by a heart attack, diminutive Shastri has grappled vainly with a serious food crisis. And now huge floods, unusual even for India's monsoon season, are surging over seven states, from Assam in the east to the Punjab in the west. More than 2,400,000 acres of standing crops have been damaged, and thousands of Indi ans are in flight from their drowned villages. For the first time in recent memory, flood waters have reached the suburbs of New Delhi. Five thousand troops labored to plug...
...there were other reasons for his close supervision of the war. Misconduct of an operation in which so much U.S. aid was involved could expose the Kennedy administration to much unnecessary criticism. Thus when reports indicated that 75 per cent of the Indian army was stationed in the punjab on the Pakistani border, away from the Chinese front, Galbraith convinced the Indian generals that a different troop placement was in order...