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...Calcutta lies beneath its flies, swollen and unhealthy. The great city now crowds between 3,000,000 and 5,000,000 souls into its dank tenements, often six to ten to a room, scores to a back-well privy. One man in three is a D.P. from Pakistan or the poor uplands, with no money and no place to go. And although the sacred cows roam free down Chowringhee, the native Bengali feels no more free than the refugee: the Marwaris and the British have the best businesses; the quick Madrasis get the best jobs; the workers for the jute...
Forces of Chaos. By last week four people had been killed, 200 seriously injured, a thousand hurt. The city was paralyzed, and a general strike was spreading across Bengal. Mobs surged unchecked through the streets. From Lucknow, Jawaharlal Nehru commented despairingly: "Looking at happenings in Calcutta," he said, "it seems as if Indians are a mad race. We achieved freedom by peaceful means ... It will be a bad day for India if leadership passes into the hands of such forces of chaos." At week's end the government surrendered to the rioters, called off the fare increase...
From halfway around the world, TIME-Reader George Willstead Rodrigues recently wrote us about his job as an assistant harbor master of the Calcutta Port Trust. The Calcutta harbor is one of the world's most difficult to navigate. And one of the toughest jobs there is that of the assistant harbor master, who pilots ships up the treacherous Hooghly, one of the several mouths of India's sacred Ganges...
...world from Butte to Bahrein, U.S. Narcotics Agent White has got the evidence that has put thousands of peddlers behind bars. His wartime hitch as a lieutenant colonel in the Office of Strategic Services was no less interesting. At one point he stepped from the closet of a Calcutta fleabag rooming house, pistol in hand, just as a Japanese spy was about to knife a U.S. soldier. "I had to kill the spy on the spot," White recalls...
...exhibit to see was the show from modern India at the Smithsonian. The catalogue lists nothing earlier than 1900, warns that "those who expect to meet only a pleasant exoticism are bound to be disappointed." To show how India's artists are breaking away from mannered tradition, Calcutta's Academy of Fine Arts and the All India Association of Fine Arts assembled some 300 objects from ivory elephants to embroidered shawls, and a full gallery of 172 contemporary paintings. In subject, the canvases range from old Hindu rituals to present-day Indian life, but in style they...