Word: uttar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shops closed, windows were shuttered, and even the bazaars were half deserted in teeming Lucknow (pop. 500,000), capital of Uttar Pradesh province. Students stormed through the streets, set up loudspeakers outside the Council House, bombarded a captive audience of state legislators with fiery exhortations. On their way to another demonstration, a group collided head-on with short-tempered police: brickbats flew, steel-tipped lathis flailed, shots were fired. A passing water carrier was killed; the wounded totaled...
...Nature of Heat. One of the greatest exponents of ayurveda is Uttar Pradesh's chief minister, Dr. Sampurnanand. A graduate of Allahabad University, Sampurnanand (who has no first name) majored in mathematics, physics and chemistry, rates the title of doctor only on the strength of honorary degrees collected from fawning provincial universities. Sampurnanand dabbles in ayurveda himself, often prescribing ayurvedic remedies for friends. Four years ago his government set up the State Ayurvedic College in Lucknow, dedicated to the proposition that students should learn both the ayurvedic and Western medical systems...
...clumsy answer to the continuing chorus of free-world outrage over the Hungarian executions-a chorus that included some voices the Soviets evidently had not expected to hear. In Geneva last week the International Labor Organization expelled Communist Hungary's delegates. In the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, the local Communist branch demanded that the national party publicly condemn the executions, and even Prime Minister Nehru felt obliged to chime in with a "most distressing...
...cups of water were poured over screens of khus-khus grass to cool homes, and millions of Indians drank curd milk mixed with salt, the superstitious villagers of Uttar Pradesh put slices of onion beneath their turbans and hung garlic on their fans in the belief it would ward off sunstroke. In Madras black pepper was rubbed on the head of the elephant god to create "such a burning sensation that he will gush forth rain." The prayers were answered last week in some parts of India with the arrival of the welcome monsoon, though not in the hard...
Some of Calcutta's prostitutes have begun marrying the pimps they work for, on the theory that no court could prosecute a husband for bringing "friends" home for dinner. In one Uttar Pradesh area, police faced another difficulty: by custom, a girl can take on as many lovers as she wishes, so long as she lives in her father's house...