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Unittd Press International
New Delhi-(Un)-An Indian
pilot with a name like Muk
berjce put his skilled handi
on the control of a giant Jet
liner one day this week and
brought a planeload of tour
ists into Calcutta airport with
deft precision.
At the same moment, an
other Indian with a name like
Mukherjce, threw his numbed
weight against the wood and
leather harness of a crude
rickshaw. He dragged his
tourist into the streets of Cal
cutta with the blank eyes and
sweating flanks of an over
worked cart horse.
The neatly turned-out pilot
and half-naked, barefoot
coolie are worlds away from
each other in education, poli
tics and the amount of food
they put into their stomachs.
But by the standards of the
paridoxlcal "nation" of India,
they have many things in
common.
They are both dark and slim
and obviously different from
their burly, fair-skinned, f '
low citizens in northwertern
India.
Sophislicaltd Language
They both speak a sophisti
cated language called Bengali.
They look down on India's
13 other "official" languages
as crude and barbarous dialects.
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They are both Hindus, yet
they live in a country which
contains more Catholics than
Ireland and more Moslems
than Egypt.
The two Mukherjccs are
worlds away from each other.
But they are also worlds away
from most of the 440 million
other Indians who make this
the most complicated, confus
ing nation on earth.
India can only be described
In extremes and paradoxes
like the Mukherjees.
Compare it for i n s t a n c a
with another sub-continent
Western Europe. India is big
ger and more populous. It
includes more races, religions,
languages, people and social
classes.
Yet India, somehow, Is
single nation.
Great Irregular Triangle
The nation sprawls over
1,221,880 square mile . en
closed in a great irregular
triangle. The triangle south
ernmost point reaches as far
south as Venezuela. Its north
western corner is 2,000 miles
away, In the latitude of the
U. S. state of Oklahoma.
The second highest moun
tain in the world-K-2-is lo
cated on this northwestern
shoulder. An Imaginary super
man with a 2,000-mile vision
could see all of India if he
climbed to the top of this five
mile high peak.
Looking toward the Indian
plains, he would see range on
range of snowcapped moun
tains directly below him
Slant-eyed Tibetan-speaking
Buddhist monks turn prayer
wheeb and sip yak butter tea
on the mountain-sides. Grey'
green tents of the Indian army
are pitched around the monks
monasteries to guard against
further Red Chinese incur
sions-
Similar tents are pitched
further south in the beautiful
Kashmir valley, which 's dis
puted b e t w i en India and
Pakistan.
World of Their Own
The fair-skinned Kashmiris,
many of whom have blond
hair and blue eyes, live in a
world of their own, where
clear trout streams rush down
from pine clad mountains and
palatial houseboats drift lazily
on the gleaming Dal Lake.
Further south, and over an
other range of mountains, lies
the storied Punjab. This Is a
ent farmers who own their
own land and have the high
est standard of living among
the Indian peasantry.
The Punjabis are fighters as
well as farmers. They call
their land "the sword of In
dia,' and send more of their
sons to the army than the
people of any other state.
Below the Punjab lies the
Indian capital of New Delhi.
Strategic Location
The capital is the most
strategic location in India. It
lies near the headquarters of
the great Indus and Ganges
river valley, which make up
the rich and ancient plains
of Hindustan.
South of the great river
valleys of Hindustan, India
began to change. The people
become darker as the traveler
crosses the Deccan plateau of
central India. Their language
changes from the ancient San
skrit based tongues of the
north to the soft accents of
the Dravidian languages. The
differences are as great, or
greater, as the transition from
Norway to Sicily.
The southerners are divided
Into four states, including the
narrow, coastal strip of Ke
rala which was once ruled by
the only freely elected Com
munist regime In the world.
At the same time, Kerala is
the most Christian state
India
more than half the people can
read and write.
250 Hours ol Work
Done in City Parks
About 230 hours of work
in maintenance of Medford
parks was completed during
May by men on welfare, ac
cording to Robert L. Haworth,
director of park and recre
ation. Haworth presented the
monthly report of the depart
ment' activities at the recent
meeting of the city park and
recreation commission.
Haworth noted that sopho
more boy of Medford High
school began a series of swim
instruction as part of the
school's physical education
program during May. He ex
plained that this year one of
every 10 boys was a non
swimmer compared to four
of every 10 when the program
started in 1030
The Jackson county Softball
association began league play
May 12 and played 30 games
during the month. The league,
which includes 10 teams,
plays at Jefferson. Hedrick
Junior High, and Jackson
schools and Hawthorne Dark
In I until facilities are available
and tne only one where I at Jackson park.
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The brief survey from the
top of K-2 leaves out many
interesting dot on the map of
India. It ignores the west
coast metropolis of Bombay,
where 3 million people live in
a bustling, booming city as
sophisticated as any in Eu
rope.
It scarcely touches on the
ghastly slums of Calcutta.
where uncounted thousands
are born, live and die in the
streets, on even terms with
the homeless cow which wan
der aimlessly through city
iranic.
But hardest to see is the
social growth which floats up
pilots, engineers, doctors and
scientists to the surface of the
vast pool of Indian humanity.
This educated, cosmopoli
tan "elite" is numbered in
the millions.
They pour steel, build Jet
airplanes and grind out more
movies than Hollywood. They
skipper a merchant navy
twice as big as Australia's.
The engineers turn out more
kilowatt hours of electricity
than Denmark, Portugal,
Cuba, Ireland and Hungary
combined.
Enrolled in Universities
More than 100.000 Indian
youth are enrolled in univer
sities in Calcutta alone. The
literate population of the
country, all by itself, would
form the fourth largest nation
in the world.
But for 110 million Indians
who can read and write, there
are 330 million who cannot
even sign their names.
For every booming steel
mill, there are thousands of
villages which have no roads,
telephones or school.
For every white coated sci
entist at the Trombay atomic
reactor station, there are thou
sands of peasants too super
stitious to let themselves be
vaccinated for smallpox.
The political leadership of
Jawharlal Nehru is giving the
peasants a "do it yourself
education in democracy. The
leadership trusts itself to the
vote of the poor and ignor
ant, and so far the peasants
and ccjlics have retuiu this
trust at the voting booth.
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