THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1958.
INSIDE NEHRU'S INDIA
Where one in three sleeps
in
the street
DUST from the arid land is swirling about the streets in great, hot clouds. The sky is darkened over, and the wind is dry enough to swell the tongue. I have arrived in Delhi-in the middle of a dust
storm.
I
have come here What is India like tony-11 yearanfter Independence? To find out. To try to tell you what life is like for the seventh of the world's population that lives in this crowded, sweltering sub-continent.
Delhi, the capital of India, must be one of the driest capitals on earth. But that is not the only thing that distinguishes it. It is really two cities-New and
Arc
Okl
New Delhi. Iegacy of the Bratish u. is one of the most materstve eflies in the world. The grandeur of its buildings, abe Bay comes plion of His plan- ming. take away what ttte Lucerat he
Bes been able to Butler
and
Plast
in The burge Beige fagacks of the Govern- mt buildings ran be seen at the end of tree-lined nvenus several miles long.
FABULOUS
Large sleek cars glide from Exelling to bukling, and every thing is there for the comfort of those who work with the Government services
Modera shops citunes, and restaurants pre all, spaciously and neatly arranged on the by- ps type roads, near the round abouts, e lira-modern blocks of dats, the Firdassic and the hotels,
The hotel in New Delhi are a work in themselves, Fabulous cars draw up lo Borches three storeys
Chauffeurs
summoned From the pork by glant com-
not missionaiteR
In the totalsi bus sun-glasses. the banks ne open 24 hours a day.
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Orchestras alternate The handstands of
heavily the over furnished dining - toons, obsequiously scraping away at beir violins to tures one has Boi heard for years, and hoped would never hear again.
It is 11 years since the British troops · marched out and left India to the Indians.
What sort of job have they made of it? - What is life now like in this land of colour, mystery, squalor, and brilliance?
by
BRIAN GARDNER
A China Mail writer has been to India to find out. Today he begins a penetrating fact-finding survey on this ancient civilisation's struggle to come to grips with the problems of 1958.
"What happens after Nehru I don't know. My main fear now is Communism."
*In the next elections we hope to add the States of Bengal and Andhra to our int. But really it all depends on Nehru's Con- gress Party, It is cracking. The sooner it falls the sooner Wi shall take over. We have only
to wait," NO SATELLITE
When I was in Bombay I met Raja Hutheesingh sinned at Raja Hutheesingh. He is Nehru's the pipe In his hand with a brother-in-law, and an influen- worried frown. ial, wealthy business man, an author, and once a newspaper proprietor.
My
class and the rent of India, those whom you have scen on the streets, are quite as Calcutta, the second largest city slation at Calcutta). And the cut off from each other as are in the Empire,
Hulheesingh early Central Telegraph Office, which an Englishman and a German,"
is not the only bustle in the Communist Party morning. It was an incredible stays open all right.
Hutheesingh toll me, "Lack of man India concerned about offices. Typewriters were idle. experience. There might have
Everywhere the Men ont around smoking, and Cholera ensta Ita shadow it communication between the rich Communism, been a massacre. Bodies, bone- Calcutta all the year and every and the poor is one of the major word is on poopic's Ups. "We moving chairs into the breeze, of protruding, and hardly clothed, year, It is never atomped ou,
are going fted, nothing can stop a fan, Iny everywhere. Hundreds of
it now," said a business mat office the Communists, bee anything very much.
No one seemed to be doing -thousans of them.
धम
the
IMPOSSIBLE
problems of India."
We sat on the verandah
his tastefully furnished flat as The Government of India does Unemployment In India is
a servant served us iced drinks not know how many. The city part of the same problem. When spoke in the beautifully modu- He played with a pipe, and authorities do not know how the Calculia Fire Brigade ad- many. No one knows how many vertised in a paper for 100 posiluted English of all educated sleep in the streets at night in as firemen, 15,000 men swarmed ludiana. Calcutta, But it is believed to around the fire station the next be up to 30 per cent of the city's day, including many university population.
graduates.
with Incredible balance, os in the
And stil they come streaming And bullocks remotest paris, draw cart-louds of produce in from the country, looking for quiside
thing in the work thai is not there. latest the
THE WRETCHES
Inst
10
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It was impossible to Interview them, and the police had to disperse the crowd with a balon charge and tear gas,
THE CURSE
they
cause
like everybody equal," said a fax-driver.
As I left I saw very
India is a place where people control of one State, Kerala.
Already the Communists have are quile prepared to wait a long time for what they want. In a modern block of offices in It is a country which has, at New Delhi, above
one stract Bombay,
of the mos humming with Indians desper. emeleni airports in the world. ately scraping together their and has, at Calcutta, the world's various vings, is the Com- worst slums, in India," he said, "you can munist Party
hend- of India
It is a country where men are see 2,000 years in one day. You quarters.
pald
write letters, and can find someone living in the In its offices hang dusty por- where there are more dialects
than any
ono eighteenth century, someone in traits of Stalin and Lehin, and languages the tenth century, and s0 on. Polite young men, speaking cul- person can know. And we still have the curee of tivated English, sit behind lide Untouchability, despite what the desk Government says,"
I went there to meet B. 1. (Untouchables once could not Ramadive,
A country, too, where a member of the
man thinks nothing of walking even be seen by high casle Secretariat of the CP.I..and down the main street in a pair of At traffic lights, beggar women Hindus, but the custom is now the back-room brata of the shorts under an umbrella; wheto
Party in India. with babies in their arms hover meant to be abolished.)
He is a squat, the gates at the back of the around the cars, in the hope
a hard, dis President's House are falling off erect man, with of a halfpenny.
ciplined face.
their hinges; where men worship When Indta becomes Com the same cruct can that brings munist it will be like China, not death to many of them; where
Those that do and work. mainly in the docks and the Jute mills, minke about 5s, 3d, a day.
We spoke, as the lee eilrked The healthiest looking things in our glasses, of the poverty
i saw in Calcutta were the of India., enormous rats that did a kind
"There
CRUEL SUN
All-statiobs.
Adjoining Is Ok Delhi bustling, hustling city of narrow As futs scurried about, i saw bazaars, hovels, and teniments, men, women, and children lying streets Bithy with refuse, swart on their backs on the paye
illes, noisy, and so ments, in the gutters, on the ing with
of buildings, in the over-crowded that it is a firing ledges
crevices of monuments, on the battle to walk 100 yards
Now the Government intends streets themselves.
the Many stay there during Investigate In my hotel bedroom, die. at
day, as the city workers go by, creetly
placed among the Delhi. Medical and
for they have nothing else to do, furniture, is a refrigerator. inquires are to be made.
The same wretches that I saw The Commissioner of Delhi will still be lying there as you said that this read this, in the very same spots Corporation had
while will not be a sum clearance, they are still alive
In Bombay it is much the community corrupt, as it does, Russia." "Slum clearance," he says, "is scientists are pondering this
In the central park mens merely the pot calling the But we will Sunday on how to reach the same.
kettle black.
WAITING.... a costly operation.
think nothing of sitting on beach reading Improve conditions at least to a moon.
newspaper. "Another trouble is that the I asked him how soon he tion. superficial extent, where slum Some buildings have awnings while starving wretches ile dying only organised party in India, thought India
become would obviously And these are
ex- beneath. conditions prevalt."
In the offices of the Com- In the mornings the Nehru's Congress, is falling to Communist-clearly there was munist Party in Delhi, they sit cellent spols to make a claim, police walk the streets with pieces. 1 based its But one has to get icre carly rileks prodding the bodies to see after Independence on muistaken as he was concerned. He smiled And wailing.
actions no doubt that it would, as far behind their desks - dozing. in the evening to find a place. If they are still alive,
Ideas of Socialism. Then there are building sites
politely.
"I will take a little
time." Perhaps this will help the they are good places,
The wealthy, educated class in "It went on regardless of the problem, perhaps not. Squalo, plenty of nooks and crannies. India lives in a world apart from people, forgetting that it was he said. The buey Boises of the
stations poverty, and disease are all the And railway
(7,000 all this--coldom seeing it except the people who put it in power street outside drifted up to the
bare, functional office. same problem in India.
spend their days in the main from the windows of limousines. In the first place."
is corruption and like one of the satellites." he the rich are richer, and the poor of war dance every evening in nepotism here," he said, The sald. "We are a purely national the courtyard of my hotel. Government calling the business Party, quite independent
The law says that one at not drink in public in Delhi, and it you want a beer, it appears abrucacabra. in your refri gerator.
There is, in fact, little of the mystical, rominatie East about Delhi--just good, old- New
Each part of Old Deli will European-style be visited by the corporation's fashioned. theusdlenge.
ALWAYS NEAR Nevertheless, India is never ich, for away. Walking around amid and Government offlelal ol is opulence are women wearily step out,
currying
staff once a week.
Before coming to Delhi, 1
urns on their heads, walked through the streets of
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BACK HOME GO THE SPACEMEN TO PUT ON THE PRESSURE
What about OUR rocket?
I report a step forward...
JUST back in their
own countries today are 30 Commonwealth scientists now de- termined to force through the idea of a Commonwealth space programme.
By ANGELA CROOME
Canadian and South Africans
tage of the empilest' large ocean gramme based on the Antarotic in the world, the Southern solves two "fucers" in one blow, Ocean.
1-By indicating how British Is all but one direction programme enn make a renity inbabiled land lles at least 3,000 different even unique contribu miles from the Antaretle ice-. Ten to astronautics instead of edge Stations operated from simply following
other or in Australia, New Zealand and countries' footsteps in an effort Nevertheless, the price
tag South Africa would be well to keep up in the scrumble for for one satellite-launching placed to monitor operations. prestige. (quite Ap-
apart from
Since an earth-satellite must-What to nny thing
do with the more ambitious) is likely to be return 10 the latitude from Antarctic when the curent in the £1,000,000 eluss-that is, which it was launched an more than the cost of the slant Antarctic launching site, would exploring that sterile spot B
unparalleled expenditure radio-telescope at Jadrell Bank, give orbits even grønler than the most expensive pure re those at the Russian sputniks.." sva.cñ installation ever bullt in Britain.
have also been able to indicate a measure of government proval. At the recent ninth congress of
Australia will undoubtedly be the International Astronauticul Federation, 111 the delegates every bit as keen and can from British countries were in probably offer as much as Bri- ngreement in urging o'Com-, tain herself. nionwealth plas.
of
06
The only thing that is wrong More progress was made en with this scheme is that this project than on the grander meeting should be next month concept
International rather than next year. Space Agency.
the
-
Annoying
complete.
Con
For the absurdity is, that, a number of nations have in the past been content to squabble over this bit and that bit of an orca that baskally no one wants or can think of a use for.
It is for this reason, that a
Commonwealth' joint
space
In fact, we should be all got attractive — programme is so
to place à satellite in a pole-lo- If we are to take part useful though it is not the best reason pole orbit and without annoying A draft treely 13 at this
belug The tenth IAF 'Congress will ly in the space adventure the for having this. What would anybody. This is the most inter moment
prepared in
President detailed prove rippling for any nation eating orbit possible for in such Washington under thinking meet in London at the beginning solid.
alone (save the big two') could of September next year. Im- planning should be done now be reasonable it had a path the satellite scans the Elsenhower's scheme for placing mediately before it there will even if the
and
rockets
From
do not
WHOLE globe as it rotates the Antarctic in political purdah be a special Commonwealth leave the ground for another tween a handful. Shared among
resterly beneath the circling for 23 year and dedicating it a forally it could be fun,
during this period exclusively to space meoing to decide what year. If not, we might just as
Belentille research, each counley can contribute. well save our money and brains
The question of the launching for something else. It will be ste is much trickier than it at weather-forecasting can be a and nearly
rollable warld The scheme in hugely worthy absurd to act about launching his seems.
as woolly. The could Britain itself is fact and not merely the tipster's British Commonwealth sshall earth satellites to do "out" for this purpose. A blank team to mention only one change this by initiating the area what other countries have al- arcu desert or ocean-everal benet. ready done four or five years thouspod miles across is re after they have done it.
Just as keen
Top men from each of the Commonwealth countries (on- cerned will rally to this confer- ence, Canadian, South African and Indian astronauts have already pledged their support,
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