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PROFILE of Shanti Devi Mehta, the writer's mother, Mamaji. The Mehtas lived in a large family house in Lahore. India, which was completed in Nov., 1929…
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PROFILE of the writer's mother, Shanti Devi Mehta, born Aug. 16, 1908.
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PROFILE of the writer's mother (Shanti Devi Mehta) & history of her family, a Hindu family in India. Writer tells, especially, about her father, called…
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PROFILE of Gandhi. Gandhi took the vow of brahmacharya, or celibacy, which among Hindus is considered the ultimate act of self-sacrifice, the surest way of…
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PROFILE of Gandhi. Tells about his early life in India; his education as a lawyer in England; his involvement with the vegetarian movement there; his …
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PROFILE of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma, meaning "great soul" was an honorific title). Writer travelled through India & to other places, beginning …
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PROFILE of the writer's father, an E. Indian doctor, Amolak Ram Mehta, called Daddyji. In 1923 he went to America for postgraduate work in medicine on …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about India. Writer discusses various aspects of the country. He first discusses background of the Sikh religion and interviews 2 Sikh …
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PROFILE of Calcutta. Long interview with Mother Theresa of the Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic congregation founded by her in 1948, who devote …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to India in 1966. Writer journeyed to some of the isolated regions along the Sino-Indian border in the Himalayas. Through …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Kumbha mela at Prayaga which author attended. It is the largest religious assemblage on earth with sometimes millions of …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Indian music and musicians. Alauddin Khan, who isknown simply as Baba (Urdu for "old man") is one of India's finest musicians. …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's visit to India in 1965 after an absence of six years. Originally he left India in 1949, & having received all his …
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PROFILE of the Right Reverend John Robinson, Suffragan Bishop of Woolwich, one of the radical theologians, and the author of "Honest To God. The Bishop …
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PROFILE of the Right Reverend John Robinson, Suffragan Bishop of Woolwich, the author of an article entitled "Our Image of God Must Go," and of a book …
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Karl Rahner, a professor of dogmatic theology in Innsbruck and an official theologian to the Second Vatican Council, menti ned in PROFILE of the Right Rev.…
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PROFILE of B. H. Blackwell, Ltd., of Oxford, and about the book trade in Britain. Today, the book trade is healthier in Britain than in any other …
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PROFILE of R. K. Narayan, acclaimed the best novelist in India, with eleven novels and two volumes of short stories to his credit. Successive interviews …
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The writer, aged 25, a Hindu, goes home to India after 7 years in America, & 3 years studying at Oxford. His family had to flee Pakistan and is now in New …
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The writer tells how he and his friend, Dom Moraes, both Indians, spend a bummy month together in India. They had been great friends at Oxford. Mr. Mehta …