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...ceremonies last year honored almost 300 employees, everyone who had served 25 years or more. This year, however, only those who will complete their 25th year in June will attend. The list of 12 women and 30 men, includes the Lowell House superintendent, Fritz Rau, six maids, three policemen, three chefs, three engineers, a bus woman, a pipe coverer, carpenters, watchmen and librarians...
REMEMBER THE HOUSE (241 pp.)-Santha Rama Rau-Harper...
...intertwining of two processes-the coming of age of a sensitive .girl and the coming of age of an equally sensitive nation-makes a compelling novel. Santha Rama Rau, who writes English (Home to India) with the flourish of conquest, portrays newly freed India through the mind of Indira ("Baba") Goray, daughter (as is Novelist Rau) of a rich and respected Indian politician. The story transpires in Bombay, in the hill country of the north, and among the elaborate Victorian palaces of the Indian rich on the Malabar Hill. Baba and her sophisticated schoolgirl friend turn their wary eyes...
More Than Diplomats. Thus, cleverly, Santha Rama Rau puts in a novelist's terms an Indian psychological dilemma, which in the terms and the person of Nehru irritates the West: just as the British were disliked more for their law and the incorruptibility of their lawgivers rather than for their conquest, so Americans seem to be disliked and resented for their quixotic good will rather than their "dollar imperialism." In the presence of envy, gratitude is impossible...
Last week in Lucknow, delegates gathered for the second all-India Congress of Family Planning, and gave birth to some anguished complaints. Dhavanthi Rama Rau, president of India's Family Planning Association, accused the Health Minister of spending only $500,000 of the $1,300,000 allotted for "family planning," and that chiefly on "research studies" on the anthropological aspects of birth control. "The Health Ministry refuses to allow government money to be spent on contraceptives [so that] advice on the use of contraceptives given to people attending maternity hospitals and child welfare clinics is completely wasted." Lady Rama...