Word: rajagopala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With thermometers soaring around 100, sweating correspondents wrestled with pronunciations of such words as Rajagopala-chariar, shopped for sun helmets attended by troops of fortune tellers, gem dealers and snake charmers. Strange too are the problems of Indian newsgathering. Press conferences are rare. Official press releases consist typically of bulletins on rice culture, assembly debates, the comings & goings of maharajahs from the Viceroy's palace. Troubling also are the country's vast distances, with prospects of a Jap attack that might come anywhere or everywhere on a 1,500-mile front from Ceylon to Calcutta...
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