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MERRY Christmas from News Circle! Whether Christmas for you is snow on the path or log fires or gallant Sal­vation Army street corner bands-.-one thing seems certain and that is that Christmas in New Delhi is going to be different. Mary Louise Weiss sets the theme of this issue with her under­standing piece urging an acceptance of the differences and the Reverend Camp­bell writes of the enthusiasm with which the Indian Christians celebrate the holiday. If you can't bring yourself to

say viva la ·difference, Helen Kanrich has some suggestions to escape the center of exuberance.

The Bharata Natyam may not remind you of the Nutcracker Ballet but an article on the dance seems appropriate to the festive season and Pepita Kauffman writes authoritatively. on the various dance styles of India. Courtney Knauth's memories of British Colonial India may not imme­diately bring to mind Dickens' London, but again, there's an obscure asso­ciation, if you work on it. Joanna Macy presents the part of Chrfstmas which often gets lost in the tinsel when she writes of our Peace Corps' faith in mankind. Bettye Traywick writes about the Indian toy industry, Leman Fotos uses her Bookmarker column to. tell abou the gift books available, Pepita has some festive recipes and guest Garden Editor Mary Ensminger has a run-down on the December flower shows.

When John Blee graduates from American International School and becomes famous, we at News Circle will continue to congratulate ourselves for having "discovered" him. Aren't his Three Kings handsome? Merry. merry Christmas!

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God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlewomen . . .. because it's a cinch that is the only way you're going to get any (rest), this month of December in the Capital of India. By the time the data had been collected on what we-the-leisure-class might do to amuse our respective selves, this particular self was ready to hibernate for the remainder of 1965. When one con­siders that the slight offerings which are set before you are merely a taste . .. (you see, this column must be written when many activities are still in the nest­ing stage) . . . When one considers that all the peo­ple who hate entertaining, anq those who have pro­crastinated for the past six months have decided to do it NOW ..... . When one also considers that all the people who adore giving parties, couldn't possibly let this festive season pass without their bid for the season's wildest soiree ... .. one wonders if you'll even have time to read 1this article. It really is a bit awe (or ulcer) inspiring"'to reflect on just how much a woman does in this one month of the year. Any­way, Happy Christmas Card Writing.

First of all, here is a sampling of church plans tor the season. Even if ,you always unfailingly go to one church, or religiously never go to any church, you might enjoy attending some of the variety of services available. Centenary Methodist Church (Link Road at Lodi Road) will present a Tableau from 6 to 7 p.m: on December 23rd and 24th. Ther.e will be Carols and the Christmas story told in Hindi and English. On Christmas morning the English service is at 8:45.

The Cathedral Church of Redemption (Episcopal) has a full schedule planned, beginning with Even­song and Advent Carols on December the 5th at 6 p.m. On Christmas Eve there will be a Midnight Mass starting with the Blessing of the Crib at 11:45 p.m. Christmas Day services are at 7:15 and 8 a.m .. and songs at 11:30 and 6 p.m. Carol •services will

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be held on December 26th and January 2nd at 6 p.m. The address is One Church Lane.

The Union Church (Inter-denominational) will have its Cliristmas Service on Sunday, December 19th at 9:30 a.m. The Sunday School is planning a Christmas play to be presented sometime during the week before Christmas. Their Young People's Group plans to go Caroling, and if you would like to join them~ I'm sure y9u would be welcome (even if you're not so young.) Call 619601.

Sacred Heart · Cathedral (Roman Catholic) at Alexandra Place will celebrate Midnight Mass in the open air at St. Columbus High School.

On Christmas Day, Ambassador and Mrs. Bowles will hold Open House fronY 3 to 6 p.m. at Roosevelt House. Everyone in Delhi is welcome!

There are also plans for a Christmas Party for all the poor children of Delhi. Now that's qaj.te an undertaking, I think you will admit. It will take place at St. Joseph's in Old Delhi on Christmas Day. Each child (an estimated 500) will be given a pre­sent and food to take home. There will be a Christ­mas Tree and entertainment. If you would like to contribute ,a toy, please call Sister Mary Margaret ·of the, Missionaries of Charity at 229457.

For the American Mission community, there will be two parties at Roosevelt House. A Mela for the children (under age of twelve) of all Mission em­ployees and all the Americans in Delhi will be held December 18 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. A party for all Mission employees will take place on December 24 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (children over twelve are welcome).

Hanukkah, the eight day Jewish festival of lights, will be celebrated starting December 18th at 6:30 p.m . . The service will be held at 2 Humayun Road. On Sunday the 19th there will . be a children's party

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at Lodi Gardens starting l't 2:30 p.m. Children love this holiday because it is a time for rece1vmg pre­sents and money. They also play special games with a dreidel, which is similar to a top. Hanuk­kah is a very important time in the Jewish calendar. It celebrates the victory of Judas Maccabee over the Syrians in 175 B.C., after a period of religious perse­cution. When they re-dedicated and purified their temple, which the Syrians had desecrated, the priest found only enough oil to burn the sacred light for one day. Much to their surprise and joy the oil lasted for eight days. Each night of Hanukkah the family lights an additional candle, so that by the last night there are eight candles burning.

This is really the month of months for the children. Have you heard of the' Share Your Toys Foundation? Its purpose is to bring friendship and understand­ing to children of all countries, through the exchange of toys and letters. This Foundation has set up a Toys Library at 46 Lodi Estate Bungalows. This unique establishment is open every Saturday after­noon. from 4 to 6 p.m., to all children in Delhi under the age of 15. Your child may play with all the toys, and choose one to take home on a loan basis. On December 9-13, the Foundation is holding an International Children's Assembly in memory of N°ehru at the Children's Park at Indi'a Gate. In the mornings from 10 to 1 will 'be sessions on topics such as "How to Make a Better World.". In the after­noons, from 4-6 p.m., children from different countries will present entertainments. From 6-7 p.m. there will be children's films. On display will be several exhibits on toys and dolls, books and magazines for children, from all over the world. In celebration of UNICEF Day, there will be a proces­sion on Sunday, December 19th to Rashtrapati Bhavan. It begins at 9:30 a.m. at India Gate. Child­ren of all nations will participate in costume. In

· the afternoon at four o'clock there will be races. Mr. Veerendra Adhiya (Phone 76145) is the Director of this Foundation, and he will be happy to tell you his plans in further detail. He is also contem­plating a ten day trip for foreign children to see India. They will travel by luxury bus to various spt>ts ranging from Chandigarh to Bombay.

The Max Mueller Bhavan is also presenting an item of particular interest for children. "Rum­plestiltskin" and "Everyman" are puppet plays by a famous German Puppeteer, Heinrich Maria Denne­borg. Come to the Azad Bhavan on December 10th at 6:30 and December 11th at 5 p.m .

If your nerves are a bit jangled from all this togetherness with the little ones, here's a bit of s~hin,g music! In the Western vein, you may listen

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CHRISTMAS in Delhi is indeed a time of gaiety, noise and revelry, door-bells ringing, children

sil)ging, bagpipes playing, cobras swaying, and, until you have spent ooe, it takes a bit of understanding and patience. It certainly will not be the quiet time of privacy with your family to which you are used. The difference in concept, once accepted, will reward you with a never-to-be-forgotten and happy experi­ence.

India is full of surprises, and the Christmas as a holiday in this predomin­antly Hindu society is a surprise to most newcomers to this country. You know, by now, they make much of holidays, and Christmas is one of the loudest, brightest and gayest. We think of it as one of OUR own holidays. It is, of course, a Christian holiday, just as Hanukkah in- this season is an equally important Jewish holiday. Most impor­tantly, it is one way and one time in which we can celebrate together the truest meaning of kindness, joy and brotherhood. Christmas is also a time of sharing; let us then share at this season in our community · with all our friends and in our households with those who serve us so loyally and so well.

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households a partial pay bonus is traditional.

A few Americans, in order to make the mo3t of privacy, open their own gifts on Christmas Eve, others early Christmas .morning, making it known that they prefer not to have the servants come , in until the late morning or lunchtime. They will be eager to greet you as early as they can Christmas Day with garlands of marigolds or nosegays of roses, a lovely custom you won"t want to forget. Once the exchanges are made, the garlands can be removed

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from around your neck and draped· over the doors or lampshades, adding a bright additional decorative and very Indian note. In our household we always in­vite our servants and their families to come in the late morning to see our tree. There are refreshments for all and a bag of trinkets and candy for all sixteen (each year an addition or two) children.

It is best to have 'it understood initial­ly that _ gifts are given yom:- servants either at Diwali or at Christmas, not both. One American explained it to his servants this way: "Diwali is YOUR big holiday; Christmas is OURS." A pre­sent of clothing or blankets or candies is welcome anytime, and in some

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From dawn to dark, the bands will come through your gate to serenade you, dressed in gaudy uniforms with buttons of brass, gold epaulets, cockades and ·helmets, thumping, tooting and wailing their seasonal and out-of-sea­sonal songs, insistent on pleasing you and expectant of recognition. They will remind yoti of all the school bands, the circus bands and the hometown march­ing bands. One of our oldtimers repor­ted that thirteen bands came to their door their first year in Delhi, six the second, and the third year they locked the gate! If you feel you can't cope with the noise and confusion, you'd better plan a trip to the hills, but it is

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a part of the experience of Christmas in Delhi. By evening you will be visited by the gentler sound of carolers of mixed ages clutching candles as they sing outside your door. They have come to share with you. and it is your turn to share with them.

Then there are the servicemen who, like· the bands, form a day­long parade to your

Greens are 1111predictable door, asking for your tribute to the _ service

they have given you throughout the year from the post office, telegraph office, the electric and telephone companies. Some will be fami­liar to you, others you will not be expected to distinguish from the snake charmer or the astrologer or the wallahs, and, for this reason, you might ask your bearer to tell you who and how many of these servicemen and deliverymen you should be prepared to recompense. This is another aspect of Christmas Day, a custom you can scarcely avoid, and, if you are prepared in advance it will go smoothly. Have a ready supply of ruppee notes and fifty paise coins and let your bearer be the one to hand them out; it will save you embarrassment and wrought nerves. At home in the States we always gave something to ·the postman, the milkman, the newspaper boy; half ,a

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ruppee is little enough to give their counterparts here in India.

The most fun, of course, is the preparation, and Delhi abounds in all the necessaries and a few _ glamorous additions to your stock of round-the-world supplies of decorations. First comes the A WC Bazaar on December first, then the YWCA Chrysanthemum

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WE from the North are the last to arrive as our plane

circles over a world of waterways and palm trees. Sea and land inter­laced, aflame in the sunset. "You know, this is what I used to think all India would be like," says a volunteer from Punjab, somewhat wistfully. We go silent before the beauty of it as we drive from the airport, the crazy · rich tilting palms, the neat thatched houses. the white-clothed men in their tucked­up lul'l:ghis, looking narrow-hipped as Egyptians on a frieze.

Confusion of greetings and lug­gage and registration at the hotel. It is elegant by usual Peace Corps standards, but the only one that could accommodate us all. "Just don't send a postcard of the place to Sarge Shriver", cracks Brent Piles of knapsacks and bedr~ll~ strew the sleek neon-lit entrance. I recognize Bill Moore's bright red Colorado pack that I'd followed up

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OUR PEACE CORPS MEETS

by Joanna Macy Illustrated by the Author

Peace Corps Volunteers arrive in India not individually, but in groups, numbering anywhere from 30 to 80 volunteers, having trained together for the specific type of project for which the Government of India has invited them. These groups are designated by number : " India l'', "India 2". Seminars are held twice during the working period of each of these groups-one at three or four months afrer arrival and the second at one year. In mid-October 1 volunteers from two of these groups, India lJ and India 14, gathered in Cochin-Emakulum, Kerala, for a three-day Seminar. Both batches, totalling some seventy volunteers, had been working in India for four and a half months, India l 3 on poultry and ·India 14 on health and nutrition.

to the snows of Rotang Pass last June.

The India 13 and 14 ers from Kerala, Mysore and Andhra have been arriving over the day by bus and train. The air is full of faces and laughter and shouts. These volunteers, first knit together ~bY~ three driving months of training and selection in Davis. California,

see each other now after baptism by India. A baptism of hard work and heat, of loneliness and trial and achievement. At dinner,· over the beat of the combo, the calls of re­cognition and the laughing embra­ces continue. I love the "lit" feeling of these first seminars. They look different now from the groggy band .that straggled . from the plane into

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the dark dawn of Palam airport last May. They're thinner, yes, and brown.er. The usual crop of beards, though fewer this time; I count only four. "Say, Joanna, what do you really think of it?", Harlan fingers the red and blond wisps on his chin in tentative pride. "Well ... it makes you look a bit like Vincent Price," I venture, "except for the color, of course." Some of the poultry boys from Kerala come, relaxed and lanky, in the long lunghis worn in their villages. Mike satisfies an old curiosity of mine. "Yes, they do wear something under­neath. See, drawstring shorts like this, with big pockets."

The seminar is officially under­way after dinner. A rough chart for the next two days is handed out: the usual variety of project session and adminstrative briefings, scheduled with enough leeway for cholera and rabies shots, for private conferences with the staff, and time just to visit and relax. Tonight we take time to talk about the history that has swept India in the months since that May arrival.

A Kerala morning of fresh-wash­ed sky and sea. Dark torsos bend in ancient attitudes to pole barges, cutting slim and slow and elegant through the waters. They make it seem · timeless, the world outside our windo,ws. Inside the volunteers of India 14 are reporting. We listen

_with taut attention, for they are telling of a · new venture, a new direction.

rJndia 14 has been given a work pattern different from other Peace Corps projects: teams of four to six vo'lunteers move from one Basic T'r-aini.ng School (BTS> in Andhra

Pradesh to another, conducting at each a moo-month course for the student teachers. In the first month the volunteers take over the entire program teaching nutrition . and health education. They use a sylla­bus prepared in conju'll-ction with the Andhra Department of Educa­tion by former volunteers on a pilot project. In the second month volun­teers and student teachers together travel out to village schools to translate their training into imme­diate etxension work. This work centers ·on sanitary and nutritious use of the mid-day meal program supplied by the U.S.A. through CARE) and includes the introduc­tion of kitchen gardens, smokeless chula~ (stJoves) and latrines, plus health education.l

The teams report, one · after an· other .. . the little piecemeal succes­ses and failures. The gimmicks and new methods discovered as they feel their way into village India. The matter-of-fact, laughing, grip­ing, unsentimental rendering of accounts. Beneath which, unex­pressed, is the gamble each is mak­ing for us. The gamble that different worlds can speak to each other, that attitude matters more than equipment or graduate degrees, that wits and will can swing the rusty door.

"That team just said they got electricity for their BTS; now how in the world did they do that?," I whisoer . to Tom at my elbow. "By hounding the State Ministers," he sighs. "Their enthusiasm is some­times downright frightening to us staff members. They just won't take no for .- an answer. And not only that, but when the Minister came , to inaugurate the advent of electri­city in the school, they had the gall to start bugging him about how he should plant his own vei;retable garden."

Monika regales us with a rueful account of her demonstration of a smokeless chula. First, it rained so much that the mud would not dry before the time of the scheduled

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meeting of village headmasters. It took a small eternity to light the fire in it-and then the pot had a leak and kept dousing the flames. To her anguish her demonstration chula never worked. "It was a total failure. But the next month we went to those village schools and . we found they had gpne and built smokeless chulas just like our model! We still can't understand it."

"Health is the most difficult thing to teach," Stan is saying, "because the results are not apparent. You never see the hepatitis or the typhoid you didn't get. You never see the epidemic you avoided by not stirring school milk with dirty hands. So I found the best thing is just to confront the student teach­ers frankly with this inherent difficulty, so they won't get so discouraged."

"Now what we did at Zahirabad was we made nine teams that elec­ted captains. Each team started a garden. Each boy had a row, with his name at the end. They all com­peted like mad, · as individuals and as teams. The boys liked that­they sensed the organization."

Phil is telling of how his team organized their extension work. "We got the student teachers to do all the actual work themselves. Fifty of them went out to villages, got the Gramsevakas in on it, too. We called it Operation Wake-y.p. They were great. Did latrines, gardens, chulas, the works. At the end there was a big ceremony. Here is one of the certificates we got printed up for them, like diplomas. "So-and-so ... qualified to do village extension work with primaa schools." They really like that. And it's useful, too,-gives them confidence to suggest changes to their superiors."

Everyone has been building latrines. "We found it was easier to get the students to use them than the teachers. It's harder · for the · older ones to change that old habit of going to the fields~"

"One day, during our extension work, Nancy got to a village too late to dig a latrine-and so the next morning she had to head to the fields herself. Some way to start off!" "It was rather embarrassing,'' adds Nancy, a Radcliffe girl from

New York, "since half the village kept following me. They thought l was going to start some demonstra­tion."

"I wish we'd been given more in the agricultural part of training," says Sandra. "There's so much I don't know and when a farmer asks, for . example, for technical ad­vice on fertilizers for a particular

·soil l feel so stupid ... " Harlan breaks in, "Well, I believe that is just our strength. I've· started vege­table gardens all over, but I don't pretend to have any expertise. lt I did I'd be less help to them. When they need technical advice I go with .them to Block headquarters, to the B.D 0. or B.A.O., and show them how they can get help on their own and can continue getting help after I'm gone."

We take time off from talk. Aboard a launch we go poking around the harbor islands, drifting under coconut palms and Chinese fishing nets tilted against the sky. At Cochin a few of us clamber off. We talk with some of the "White Jews" at the old synagogue, mar­veling that this community, rnow fewer in number than we at the seminar, have survived here, un­touched, for two millenia. Our own claim on time seems suddenly ab­surd. On the ferry back to ou~ hotel l sit wedged between a volun­teer and a Malayalam shipworker. In a darkness fragrant with spice, sea, sounds intertwine-the Malaya-

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lam's low song, snatches of quiet oonversation. "I didn't like it when I came: .. now I'm thinking I'll ask to extend."

At morning coffee I'd talked with Grace, who, at 58 and recently widowed, left her job as head hospi­tal dietitian to join India 14. Now in the dining room I corner Marian, .another 14-er at age 62. I'm after material to send to Peace Corps, Washington, for use in reci:uiting older volunteers. Between anima­ted conversations with her table rriates, Marian sketches her story­B.A. from Wellesley, M.A. in social work, volunteer community action in St. :L..ouis, three children raised and grown, four grandchildren­"I've been as healthy as any of the others," says Marian, whose team leader is in his twenties. "But an older person who considers joining the Peace Corps must realize the need for physical endurance. Bicycl­ing out to villages in July heat can take it out of you."

I ask her to tell me about the benefit show she organized. "That started right off- the 'first week at a meeting of village headmasters ·on the mid-day meal program. I began to understand that most of the schools did not have kitchens or even cooking sheds-'-50 they have to prepare the food outside, which makes it that much harder to be sanitary. It occurred to me that we could raise money for kitchens with a · benefit. The District Collector, the Block Development Officer, the head of the Panchayat, they were all on the committee for the show and; as a matter of fact, they insis­ted on meeting every single night.

·Sort of a variety show, everyone did something. Ruth played her flute, we did American folk dances, the student teachers performed ... We raised twelve hundred rupees and helped fourteen schools."

I bump into Paul outside the poul­try session. "Say, I hear you finally got some birds into Manipal, how's it going?." It appears that chicks are not the only project Paul is hatching plans for. "Rats. Millions

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plea-HAT a sure · it watch

is to a per­

formance of Indian classical

. dance! All the glamor of the

Orient seems to be · expressed in - the lissome movements of the

soloist, and we sit back happily to watch, marvelling at . those aspects which are so new and interesting to us: the changing facial expres­sions, the head movements, the varied arm and hand positions. The colorful costumes and the varied musical accompaniment add to the total charm.

Bharata N atyam is the best known of the four leading forms. Con-sidered the dance form of the south, it involves years of rigorous training to perfect the movements and build up a classical repertoire. The content is all religiously oriented. A world of meaning is

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expressed by means of the mudras, a vocabulary of hand positions. used, with facial expressions, to illustrate the text -of the story. The musicians accompany the dancer, a singer gives the text (by the end of the evening you will be as much impressed by the singer's stamina as by that of the dancer herself), and the dancer acts out the piece. Some items in Bharat Natyam are pure dance, with no text, a sort of

·virtuoso display. Thus alarippu, or flowering. of the body, is a sort of· warming-up exercise. A tiHana is also a selection of pure dance. A padam is a lyric acting out of a poetic sentiment, while a varnam,

' the most lengthy type of 'Piece (it may even run up to an hour!) combines interpretive passages with interspersed passages of pure dance.

Great emphasis is placed on the dancer's expressive ability, but of

·course grace, agility, and timing

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are all extremely important. Some­times the dancer will perform com­plex timing of dance motions against the timing of the accom­panists (she may dance a pattern three times while they play two rounds of the tal-the agreed . number of beats-and then she may dance it four times while they play two more rounds). A connois­seur will recognize and evaluate each step and mudra, so classic is the standardization. If you sud­denly find yourself watching a dance performance and have no idea what kind of dance you · are seeing, look for a wreath of white flowers on the hair, a brightly colored silken sari draped to form baggy pants, with a little pleated apron of gold cloth in front, a great deal of · deep knee bending with the knees pointing outward, and an accompaniment that includes a sin:

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ger. If you see these, you are pro­bably watching a Bharat Natyam performance.

Kathak dancing is considered the principal North Indian dance form. In general, this does not have the range or variation offered by Bharat N atyam, and although a dance performance will include interpretative items based on the Krishna theme, a heavy emphasis will be placed on athletic virtuosity of footwork and rapid turns, coupl­ed with intricate variations of rhythm. The true Kathak devotee works up into a fever of apprecia­tion as the dancer recites rhythmic syllables (bols) and then, while the tabla pounds excitedly, executes a rapid, tricky succession of stamps, twirls, and jumps. Arms will flail with more or less grace depending on whether the , dancer belongs to the Jaipur school (never mind the arms) or the Lucknow school (try to keep those arms graceful) . The feet are used as percussive instru- · ments, and the ringing of the hun­dred or more ankle bells (Bharat Natyam uses about half as many), the slap and thud of the heel and sole, and the frenzied accompani­ment of the tabla all combine to make a most exciting effect. The complications of rhythmic inter­play-and counter play-between dancer and tabla player are as thrilling to the knowledgable fan as a good, fast football game might be to you.

Only a few artists ~ perform dramatic dance stories in their solo pedormances. Some innovators have tried to create Kathak style ballets, but in group dances the standard of performance generally suffers. For solo performances men dance bare to the waist (a little

disconcerting when thfy are .acting out female mannerism, a · feature sterning from Mogul times and dear to the Kathak fan's heart), and wear about four inches of bells on each ankle. Women may wear a sari, but · more often affect the Moghul costume, with a swirling knee-length skirt over ankle length pants, and four inches of bells. Accompani­ment is by tabla (paired drums) with the harmonium or sarangi playing over and over again a little air with a fixed number of notes. This helps the dancer to keep faithful time during the more intri­cate sequences, especially since sometimes a duel develops between dancer and tabla player to see who gets thrown off. A really good Kathak dancer is a remarkable . phenomenon to behold, but there are"not many of these. At present, Briju Maharaj is the most outstand­ing male dancer. A bad dancer is a waste of time.

The main center for Kathak dance in Delhi is the Bharatiya Kala Kendra, but extremely pro­mising work is being done under the guidance of Maya Rao at Sur­sangam (connected with the

. Bharatiya Natya Sangh) .

Manipur! dancing features in­credibly graceful and fluid move­ments for women and athletic, vigorous dancing by men. · The traditional costume for women is entirely different from any other: a filmy skirt that is held out from the hips by a hoop arrangement, falling from there straight downwards. A tiara-like headdress and some gauzy draping over a tight sleeved bodice complete a dainty and doll­like effect. There is a well-estab­lished Manipuri dance group at Triveni Kala Sangam, so it •is pos­sible to see two or more . produc­tions a year. However, there .may not be anyt4ing doing there until

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the new year, since the group is currently on an Afro-European tour.

Kathakali dancing is another South Indian form, based in Kerala. Generally only men dance, wearing large halo-like headdresses and masks, a great deal of makeup, and long white pleated skirts. It is extraordinary how virile they can look in that outfit! Young men dance the female roles. This is an extremely dramatic technique, and is used exclusively in long, involv­ed pageants, which go on· for hours, telling stories from the Maha­bharata or Ramayana.' The stage is lighted by a single gigantic oil lamp, but it is still possible to see the extraordinary number and diversity of / expressions. Hand gestures are standardized, and the audience knows them, too; in fact, some are used with identical mean­ing in everyday life, but no one is sure which came first. Even more noteworthy, is the control over individual. ·facial muscles, with a remarkable number of different eye movements, cheek and chin muscle movements. Kathakali is said to have developed from Krishnaattam dance (see Times of India Annual for 1966) , but in Delhi we have almost no chance to see the latter. There is a Kathakali Centre in Old E,ajinder Nagar, near Shankar Road.

A recently rediscovered and re­popularized dance form is Orissi dancing, using graceful hip pos­tures and side movements remini­scent of temple figures. This is a very charming dance form for women. and so is Mohiniattam, another dance technique from Ker ala.

As is currently the case with Indian Classical Music, Classical

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We have had so · many Christ­mases in India-nearly thifty of them-and although there have always been the beggars and the professionals, these are not the people or events that we remember best about our experience of an Indian Christian Christmas. There is another side of the picture.

In the towns and villages of north India, Christmas begins at ~east a month early and carolers are out every morning. Well before dawn­up 'they are down the village gullies or the cities' alleys . . This · is a time to build up the repertoire and tune up the more eager voices. The carols have a nucleous of old and frnditional tunes. "Hajah Yisu

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The other songs of the singing party are the creation of the sing­ers themselves. They are usually "kiwallis" or antiphonal rhythms with a big beat on the tablas or village drum. The women, in the privacy of their own groups and the small fry anywhere, anytime, break into_ impromtu "bhangra" dances to the insistent invitation of the drums and the warming influ­·ence of tea and peanuts and appre­ciative friends. "Bolo Yisu Masih paida ho gaiya"-Shout Jesus Christ is Bor:q! .

All the rehearsing is in prepara­tion for the big° Chri~tmas parade.

This begins around noon in the most delirious and wonderful chaos. Ox-carts, bands, all the vill­age dogs, women from distant ham­lets and bastis screaming at friends they haven' t seen for a year, harr­ied and desperate committee organizers trying to bring . order, the newest saris and the loudest firecrackers, all add to the excite­ment.

The parade starts-it, is never started. A boy with a drum or a runaway .ox-cart precipitates an exodus from the church yard and the parade is on. Each village or· basti group, with its own drum and harmonium, sings its own songs and cracks its own familiar jokes. There used ·to be real camels to carry the Wise Men but one year one of therri misbehaved shameful­ly with a village patriarch and since then they have been banned as too unpredictable.

After the parade there is the Christmas feast followed by Christ­mas games. A local committee has gathered .together contributions for

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a feast of pilau curry, and jelabies and has bought prizes for the winners of the races. The boys, on begged or borrowed bicycles, race furiously around the field, the girls scream continuously through the chatti race with pots balanced on their heads. The girls' gunny-sack race is sure to end in tears as knees and noses and new salwars are skinned and torn by the inevitable attempt to run rather than hop. The old ladies' race is the most boisterous and dangerous race of the day-a runaway, two hundred pound matron can wreck havock when she loses her balance. ·

Christmas morning itself is a continuous bedlam of singing par­ties and visitors. Some are recog­nized as spur of the moment professionals cashing in on the fes­tival and are doled out peanuts and oranges and encouraged to move on to the next handout stop, but then come the "real" carolers; friends, neighbours, children. No­body in these parties knows all the verses to any carol or even the same tune, but heavenly music pours out of young Raju or Ashok or Lilavati and their beaming parents.

"Mommy, can we open our pre­sents now?" is heard intermittently from the corner of the living rooms that holds the Christmas tree, but another party is heard coming down the lane and Jeff, with his nose pressed to the windowpane, shouts: "Here comes Pandit-and he has his father's hat on". Both are out the door again and drifting up an,d down the verandah like tumbled autumn leaves in the abandon of the "Christmas Banghra".

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The ladies of the British Raj (and The Company) were wonder­fully prolific writers. Over the centuries they published a wealth of diaries, and collections of their letters to homebound relations (diCi they keep copies, or beg them all b~ck later?). It was to these re­miniscences I wanted to turn for Christmas customs in old India. Alas, most of the British Council's large, valuable collection had · been

. boxed away during the recent emergency. Only a few of the better-known· memoirs:__mainly by men-are still on the ·shelves. The women, the real handiworkers of Christmas color and atmosphere, might give us a fuller, more per­sonal survey, if we could get at them. But some of the men do touch on Christmas in India.

To this day Calcutta, which has many Christians, is known as a center for Christmas festivities. According to J. W. Kaye in his Administration of the East India Company, a History of Indian Pro­gress, it was there that Christmas in India first became, on any scale, . a proud and open celebration. After much debate, a resolution had been passed in Parliament permitting

by Courtney Knauth

the appointment of . an archbishop· to oversee Church of England affairs in India. And the first ser­mon of the first Indian bishop ("Lord Padre Sahib") was preached on Christmas day, 1814, in the Cathedral in Calcutta. It had seem­ed a brave gesture, but "Chow­ringhee was not in a blaze, waters of the Lall Diggy did not run crim­son with Christian blood ... .in spite of the Bishop, and his lawn sleeves and his sermon on Christmas day" . Kaye's conclusion will hardly seem original to Christians living here now: that the }ndians "thought the better of us for evincing this out­ward respect for our religion, and have thought the better of our faith ever since".

Many decades later, in 1875, a successor to this Bishop preached a Christmas sermon to the visiting Prince of Wales and the royal party in the same cathedral. By then, Calcutta's Christmas enthusiasm was traditional "and the many illu­minated devices in the native and European quarters were beautiful".

Calcutta may be the only city which built up memorable Christ­mas customs of its own. As for

other places, in questioning a hand­ful of English people who were here before Independence, I got the ans­wer, (straight from some old nov~l), "Well, of course there was the party at the Club .. . " In the

' available journals, I found isolated bits about Christmas here or there.

William Hickey, in his Memoirs, mentions that each and every ser­vant (and there were a lot of them in those days) appeared with gifts of fish or fruit. He comments that compensation for these offerings greatly exceeded their value, but that anyhow, it was nice to be given gifts on "our Bara Din".

A military man of the last cen­tury mentions a Christmas party in the Terai forest for a huge encamp­ment of British soldiers. The ban­quet, which included turkeys, a variety of imported wines, and plenty of Christmas puddings, ar­rived in some twenty eight railway cars.

The references are scarce (and there are plenty of Scrooge-like officers and civil servants who chronicle everything during a given Christmas season-the marches, the

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of them. Now with the rat traps they have here either ~u catch them alive or in two pieces, all decapi­tated and bloody. Awkard dis­posal problem in · either case. So I get a Vicker's four-way rat trap from home. It's a big hit, kills nice and neat. Now, get this, it just happens there is a lumber yard in Manipal and a surgical instru­ment plant is moving in. . . So wP.'re · thinking of taking this trap as a model and ... "

Towering above Paul, Mike says that he is worried that some of his poultry farmers will not make a profit this year because the price of feed is so high. "Of course, it will help to have that 30% subsidy toward the cost of feed that the State government promised, but still I wonder about the economics of it".

The dance band gives a party flavor to the seminar. That • and the mixture o~ sexes. Some volun­teer groups are all male and their reunions, they complain, lack dimension. I watch Pat · as he gyrates on the dance floor and realize that it is the first time I have seen anyone do ·the twist in a dhoti. From there one can drift to the roof terrace where a guitar strums "Laredo" and figures sit in clusters ·or twosomes under the stars. A setting for romance, as the St:a breeze stirs the palms. I hope tnat for this moment, at least, these ruurmuring conversations are not

dealing with school lunch programs, rat traps or chicken feed.

"Well, when your chula cracks, r.ow dung seals it right up." ·

"I used old asbestos drainpipes for chimneys. You can find them lying around discarded, they're · beat up, but useable if you saw off the torn part."

"Without good management the chicks will just die."

"Those water-seal latrines are just too expensive."

"We didn't like the bore-hole with the concrete slab top. Ever try using paving stones?"

"There was only one bullock there. And . only one in the next village. So we talked the Pan­chayat into teaming them up. Now they can draw water-and the bullocks are happier, too."

"Our poultry cooperative . mixes its own feed and if~ cheap!"

"We've got some great answers, on our. exams. Some kids pick up our phrases and string them togethe_r any old way, like "Good food builds armies to fight strong bones."

"The best I got was this. Ques­tion: What do you put in the com­post pit? Answer: the Block Deve­lopment Officer."

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In our six years-- in India we have seen a tremen­dous increase · in manuJ.actured (machine-made in this context) consumer goods. When the govern­ment, by necessity, restricted imports of non­essential or luxury items there was a sudden, ready market for almost everything from hair brushes to transistor sets. Toys and games were naturally amongst these items.

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Last year we began to notice the results of the new approaches and attitudes of various companies. The most striking metamorphosis has been in the doll­making industry. Heretofore this indMstry seemed to have been in competition for the "most grotesque" prize. Gaunt faces, attached to lumpy forms covered by dismal satine frocks of indescribable cut, were the only choices over the clay copies of primitive (and exceedingly superior) girl-child playthings. In view of this glum description you should not be sur­prised at our joy to discover the hew dolls were not rare imports but "made in India". The doll industry has matured. The result is a choice of dolls of which any little girl would be the proud mama.

Medallion Toy Company oj Bombay seems the leader in producing dolls of quality. Their dolls range 'from nine~een inch beauties with lovely, soft hair and attractive, stylish frocks to sweet faced twelve inch baby dolls, clad in knitted panties. The well-shaped bodies with moveable legs and arms are made of a nylon material toned a realistic skin color'; each of the styles have open and close eyes. The prices, we think, are reasonable for the quality ... the most expensive are Rs. 29.00, the least Rs. 12.50.

There are a few new items for boys this year, also, though there is need for improvement in durability in some of these. The best buys we have seen are manufact).lred by Toyland, Incorporated. For Rs. 4.80 a boy may have this company's vinyl plastic air plane, a well made, attractive toy. The Milton trucks al}.d cars, similar to the . famous Dinkytoys, are quite good and reasonably priced from Rs. 3 to Rs. 5. There are some new designs in mecha­nical wind-up toys. Fun vehicles, such as the taxi-scooter, or the ambulance, would please any little boy. Unfor.tunately the colors are unimaginative and the finish crude ; there is obvious scope for improvement by Bright and Company.

One of the finest industries in India is the bicycle industry. This is an. old industry and one which was · considered essential, but as the supply has caught up

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Show on December fourth, both with booths selling not only gifts but decorations as well. Your Christ­mas tree is most essential. If you don't already own one of the travelling variety made of aluminum or plastic, we suggest a trip right away to your local nursery where you can have an evergreen set aside for a small deposit. An arbor vitae in a tub can be rented for the season, or bought, if you intend to stav . for more than one. In the garden or on your terrace or barsati, it will grow from year to year under your mali's tender-loving care. Ours has fared nicely and this, our third, Christmas, it will be brought into our living-room, as familiar as some of our older decoratfons. Electric lights can be bought locally or rented from one of the furnishers of wedding paraphanalia, not only for your tree, but also for any out door shrubs y~u might want illuminated in your garden, veranda, or at your front door. Nurseries sometimes can provide greens, although from year to year this is unpredictable. Two years

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ago we wtre able to buy at the Cottage Industries florist shop lovely pine boughs from one of the hill stations for the door and mantle, but last year there were none available. Mistletoe is sold by the vendor~ on Connaught Place in varying sizes and quality. We found a few giant gilded cones at the Ashoka Hotel florist to add to our collection brought back from a holiday in Kashmir, which serve as well at Christmas on the mantle or as a centerpiece as in the summer months to fill the empty .fireplace.

The local bazaars are full of exotic decorations of all kin!ls and colors-bells (mu~icians, bullock, temple and door) for hanging with greens or garlands, silk . cord and tissue paper in lovely Indian colors, candles, embroidered mirror cloths and cushions, fruits, nuts, grasses, pods and berries. The shops and bazaars are wonderlands of tinselly doodads which make excellent garlands and tree decorations. Look around, let your imagination run riot, for everywhere you will find colorful, inexpensive objects which the· Indian themselves use..!....especially at Diwali. Paper garlands, tinsel wrist raki given by sisters to their brothers and golden har tinsel neck-pieces used like garlands-there is an endless supply. 'l;'he numerous brass shops have camels, elephants, bells and candlesticks which fit right into the Christmas decorat­ing theme. Bhawnani and Sons book store, 8-F Connaught Place, has a special room where holiday decorations can be bought. The Tibetan stalls offer cheap silver gimcracks, brass trinkets and containers of shapes and sizes to suit your fancy. At Cottage Industries you will find dolls, toys, miniature figures and animals of painted wood and papier mache. The old red Sindh embroidered cloths sold by the wallahs and the new mirror-work designed with special Christmas motifs cm towels, napkins, aprons and even stockings are on sale every Friday at A / 57 Nizamud­din East (Telephone 619669 for appointments on other days).

Once you have mailed your last card and sent off the last gift, you can get d<;>wn to your personal plans which make the holidays so abundant and momentous and personally satisfying. The community offers everything you could want in the way of church services, school events, mission parties, office socials, and friendly gatherings. Every year Ambassador and Mrs. Bowles have opened Roqsevelt House not only to the Mission for numerous children's and adults celebrations, but they have also shared their official residence with thousands of others on Christmas Day, welcoming everyone warmly and sincerely with their open hands and hearts. Share as much as you can with those who have no families-the secretaries, bachelors, students, Peace Corpsmen and Fulbrighters, anyone you know who is as far from home as you are and needful of companionship and __ a warm hearth.

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PEACE CORPS

(Co11ti1111ed from page 18)

"They must take care of their own birds. If we do it all, what is left when we leave?"

A volunteer shows me a letter from one of his student teachers. Bill explains that for fun he'd given his boys American names and they an Indian name to him, and that he had told them to say "excuse me" when they belched. Before the seminar breaks up I copy the letter, verbatim:

Dear Honorable Bill McKinney Respected Sir:

I am quite well here and I hope that same like me. While you are going to Hyderabad then I get sad tears. And that hole day I am very very feel. Here we have a holi­days. Now I am at my native place. There I see the gardening, latrine and wire whip. Then I see there actual works done by you, built by yours with your smooth hands. I never forget those models of build a latrines, to make a kitchen gardens, and beautiful models of smokeless chulas. Drain­ages. And mainly preparation of mid-day meals. Uppaina, milk and kheer.

And respectively yours notes also. In my life-long process I never

forget you. I think it is my good fortune to meet with you.

Always you are called me lovely "Philip". But here :riow who says like that. I am very very sad about this problem.

At Allipur you are suffered from lunch then you become angry upon Mr. ·K-~ E.O.Edu. There I ask a question to you, where does Mr. K- goes? Then you answered ine "He goes in compost pit." Who says your funny words with me now. I am very very feeling about . loss of your good friendship.

Sir, while we are on the tour then you says always "You are my right-hand man." But now who says like that.

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Please write early to early pos­sible.

Yours sincerely, V. Yadagiri

On the last morning maps and train schedules clutter the break­fast tables. Bags and bedrolls are toted through the lobby. "Okay / now!" "See ya!" "Good luck!" "Where's my passport?"

Some of us are racing for the Trivandrum bus. I've forgotten again to bring along a canteen and glance around to see which volun­teer I will beg water from on the trip. We squeeze into the hot crowded bus. A voice at my elbow is saying. "One thing I like about the Peace Corps is that the staff lives like the volunteers." I think

_,-of our air-conditioners, our refri-

gerator and foam-rubber mattresses, but I do not argue the point-for the teeth-rattling, bone-jolting . ride has begun.

At Alleppey the last of the volun­teers climbs down. We watch him go loping up the dusty road, with his 'bags and camera and bed roll swinging. They are scattered again now-back into India-and the seminar is over.

·.

SJl'fLA

As Christmas comes on Saturday this year, Friday, December 24 will be a holiday. If perchance the following Friday, December 31 is also decreed a holiday, those lueky enough to have some leave time may want to take four days of it, Monday through Thursday, and have ten whole cool, delightful days in which to take the children and explore some areas of India hitherto only dreamed of.

But for those who can take only three days, or four, a short foray

f or order lunch there. Approx Rs. RA~f ICME 220 includes bus. Lunch is extra .

.-_....... AJ.lfott"- "A" is for Agra-127 mi. south of ,~IN ITAL De~hi, easily re~ched. by pla~.

~N" tram or car. A mce drive, and you llA~bWlitNI . can stop at Mathura (90 mi. from

Delhi) to visit the Archaeological Museum which has some pieces

Away From Home

for Christmas

. I

By Helen Kanrich

by car, or a slightly longer one by plane, offers a pleasant holida~ interlude. ·

Where to go is the first question. How, where to stay, and what to do, are next.

· There'5 a one-day trip to Khaju­raho on Sundays only. From Saf­darjung airport, a 2 hour flight, leaving at 6:15 a.m. and a 40 minute bus ride from Panna to the famous archaeological site. C'ake a picnic iunch and eat at the circuit house,

from the B.C. era as well as others both rare and interesting. You may also see people bathing in the Jumnai's holy water if you get there early in the morning!

Another route to Agra, well worth the extra miles, is by way of Gurgaon, south almost to Alwar which is 104 mi. from Delhi, and then east through Dig (Deeg) to Bharatpur ·and Keoladeo Ghana, In<:Iia'f! most famous bird sanctuary, 2 mi. outside of Bharatpur. If you take this route, you'll surely want to go on past Alwar 6 mi. and see lovely Lake Siliserh before turning back eastward toward Dig. You may even want to stay overnight at the tourist rest house at Lake Sili­serh or at the guest house in the Ghana Bird Sanctuary, and continue your trip to Agra next day While at Agra, you'll want to see the beautiful tomb of Itmad-ud­Daula, grandfather of Mumtaz

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Way From Home (Continued };om page 23)

Mahal, and the ghost city of Fateh­pur Sikri where Akbar reigned in unbelievable splendor in the six­teenth century. Going via Alwar and returning by Mathura you can see all this and the Taj Mahal, too! Clark's Shiraz, dial direct: 012 5238; i._auries, 012 4025; Imperial, 012 4147; Circuit House, 012 244. Holman Institute, Methodist Mission, accepts a few guests, too.

If wildlife is your preference, there is Shivpuri-a 61 sq. mi. game sanctuary with animals, lake and boat club. Shivpuri is 72 mi. from Gwalior, with good bus connections from Gwalior or from Agra. It is approximately 280 mi. to Shivpuri from Delhi through Agra and Gwalior. If flying~ take plane direct from Delhi to Gwalior and bus or car to Shivpuri. Circuit House has 4 double suites with baths; write Collector, Shivpuri. Inspection Bungalow also good;

write Executive Engineer, P.W.D., Shivpuri.

If j aipur is your destination and you would be a maharaja for a couple of days, stay at the Ram­bagh Palace, formerly one of the Maharaja's residences, now one of his business enterprises. Smaller but equally excellent are the Jai­mahal Palace (31 rooms) and Khetri House (10 rooms) . Dial direct­Rambagh Palace, 014 3798; J ai­mahal Palace, 014 4171 ; Khetri House, 014 7283.

Jaipur is one hour by air frpm· Delhi, or overnight by air-condition­ed train (Delhi Mail). If you go by car (190 mi.) , be sure to stop at Siriska Game Sanctuary on th~

way. You may even decide to stay ·overnight in the watchtower or one of the guest houses and see the animals at dawn. Write Mr. J . Singh, Game Warden, Siriska, for reservations, or call Siriska 1 and ask for Mr.' Singh.

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BJ Althowzh the hill stations north of Delhi are most popular in the 'spring and summer, there are those

1 "of us who enjoy the crisp, cold weather and delightful "aloneness" of the hill stations in thP. winter­time.

Kasanli : 190 miles from Delhi­overnight air-conditioned train to Kalka, then bus or taxi 21 miles. By car, about five hour's drive, good road. Alasia Hotel, phone 8. Simla : 220 miles. Overnight air­conditioned train to Kalka, then bus, taxi or nice little train (slowest, but pleasant and interesting) up the mountainside. The roag is open but drive at your own dis­cretion at this time of year. Skilng and ice skating. Clark's Hotel, tel 2971. Rest House at Kufri where the skiing is, eight miles from Simla.

Naini Tai : 197 miles from Delhi. Driving suggested. No air travel

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DEC EM BER . 1965

by Leman Fotos

Among the books bv Indians or on India that, I am sure many of us would love to get or give as Christ­mas presents are some you may have noticed at the Chancery, or at Faqir Chands or Indiana Book Centre in · Khan Market:

The Wonder that was India by A. L. Bashan. For the real lover of ancient Indian culture before the Muslim invasion. 565 pages full of myths, stories, and poetry as well as splendid monochrome pictures. Rs. 45.

The Book of ln~an Birds and also Indian Hill Birds by Salim Ali. Real c:assics for those who cannot help being fascinated by the wealth and variety of Indian Birds. Rs. 25 each.

The Wild Life of India b:>1. , E. P. Gee. _Some black and white, some colored plates with thrilling stories of rare wild life. 30 shillings.

Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri by Martin Hurlimann. Beautiful color photography. Rs. 24.

The Story of Rama by Mathur am · Bhoothalingam. · Both for children

and adu:ts. All the illustrations taken from ancient sculpture. Simple and yet very dra~atic and movin.I(. Rs. 12.

Shadows frM11 India by Roderick Cameron. Exquisite photography with poetic depth in the commentary. 199 monochrome plates. Rs. 49.

Birds in my Garden by Malcom Mac Donald. Day to day and month to month accounts of various kinds of birds that you may happen to have in your- compound. 100 remarkably

reproduced photographs. Rs. 36.

5000 Indian . Designs and Motifs.

Rs. 40. '

Oriental Architecture in Color by Werner Speiser. 112 color p:ates, 32 plans. Islamic. Indian,· Far Eastern. Rs. 67.20.

Gopal by Dominique Darbois. A wondaitfo~ gift for a little girl living in India. Rs. 8.40

Chendru by A.B. Sucksdorff. The little Indian boy and his inseparable companion; . a tiger cub. Beautiful story as well as photography. Rs. 12.

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Children's History of India. Govern­ment Publication. Good for adults as well as children. Rs. 3.50.

A Personal Guide to India by William Davenport. The most entertaining as well as ,informative guidebook I have " ever read-to be discussed in detail in our next issue.

THE WEIRD DANCE

by C. L. Nahal

There are few easier ways in learn­ing to understand the people of a foreign country than by reading about them in their own short stories. Granted the author's individual preju­dices may color your appreciation but on the whole such stories tell you more about people than many a book of sociology.

C. L . Nahal's collection of short stories called The Weird Dance _pi<;ks up various characters and incidents common in everyday Indian life, such as the dogmatic father of "The Ideal Match", the - man lost between lust and love - in "The Lonely Path'', the dramatic change of heart in the _tradition-bound father of the "Metamorphosis" or the dilemma of a young man who, bent upon living a chaste life, escapes into a Hima­layan village from the vicissitudes of city life only to fall into the passion­ate arms of his landlady as unaccount­ably as the weird dance life plays.

Some of the characters in - the stories may remain remote from your own ·~ife; some of the stories may ilTipress you as incomplete or super­ficial , but they all seem to echo the multiphonic life around you. A little touch here, a _ turn of phrase there, the gentle sense of humor throughout, a few penetrating character studies of lonely, frustrated and confused pe{>­

ple, are heartwarming and enlighten­ing.

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to a recorded concert of Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Max Mueller Bhavan at 6:30 p.m. Part II on December 4th, and Part III on December 18th.

The Delhi Symphony Orchestra will present a concert of Classical music on December 5th at AIF ACS Auditorium at 6:30.

On December 18th, you will hear the Christmas portion of the Messiah sung at the · Ashoka Road YWCA at 6:15 p.m. Free Admission.

• The YMCA is sponsoring a choir festival at Sapru House on December 20th. Singing groups from all over Delhi will be featured in this Christmas pro­gram. There will pe a play included.

Indian music offers a wealth of entertainment for December. On the 2nd there will be a program of instrumental music and dancing at Sapru House in memory of Chatur Lal, a great tabla player who died last month. By invitation, ~all Mrs. George, 48907. Also at Sapru House, on the 10-12th, will be a dance •nd music serjes presented by the Indian Cultural ' Society. This is primarily to promote young talent, but there will be several prominent artists parti-

. cipating also.

On December 13th AIF ACS will feature a student troupe from the S. N. Das Gupta College. This will be a variety show of dance, music, and one act pla~s. Proceeds will ai!} the Prime Minister's Fund.

All India Radio will present a: festival of classical music, ·vocal and instrumental, from December 13 through 19th at Sapru House. For invitations; call Mr. Garg at 47039. The program on the 19th features

the Paranjoti chorus from Bombay. They sing western as well as Indian folk music, and have had several tours in Europe.

A combination of music and drama will be staged by the Little Theatre Group from December 1-4th at AIFACS. "Inder Sabha", (written in 1855) is one of the first Hindustani? operettas. It should be

·a colorful production, visually and audibly.

' There are three plays in English this month. Yatrik is producing "The Little Hut"', a French Farce at the Defence Pavilion. This will be playing throughout the month.

Theatre World is a brand new dramatic group in Delhi, made up of enthusiastic university students. They art presenting the Broadway comedy "See How They Run" at the Azad Bhavan. Tickets are avail­able at USIS for the nights of December 3rd, 4th and 5th.

The Britisp Little Theater group have a psycho­logical thriller for us on the 8-12th at AIF ACS. It is "House by the Lake" by. Hugh Mills.

If you've never tried a foreign language play, this month offers you an excellent opportunity. :From t,he · 2nd through the 5th, at the Triveni Garden .Theatre. there wtll be a Punjabi drama. A Bengali play by Chaturanga will be at AIFACS on the 14th., and if . that whets your appetite. there will be a troupe from Calcutta, presenting several plays from the 20th through the 26th, also at AIFACS. I should think it would be terribly In or go-go (which is the latest In way of putting it) to be a connoisseur of Bengali drama .

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DtCEMBER 19{>5

~ ~ott from tbt <fbitor

In this merry season of bazaars and festive committee meetings onE problem sometimes arises in orga­nizations-sometimes in our own committees-and that is the leru!th of time it takes to complete· TI!P<)rts and business. One committee chairman reported that aftQr a meeting, which lasted well into the dinner hour, she received several kindly phone calls suggestin.I! solu­tions-such as holding a stop watch in her hand or ringing a camel bell at the end of an allotted time. Ruby Pernell, Women's Affairs Officer at our Embassy, who has had wide experience with women's organizations, . advocates both methods. She says it is important to set a jovial note at the beginning of the meeting. "Ho, ho, ho," says the chairman (holding her stop watch in one hand and the dinner hell in the other). It must be, Ruby emphasizes. a det.ermined ho, ho­nothing to suggest a helpless giggle.

However, if you haven't a firm. stony faced, railroading chairman (and they present problems, too) there are ways to cope witb the situation and this editor would like to share some of the ideas which have occurred to her in the long reaches of an A WC meeting.

If you aren't holding up an eager bridge table, of course you can just relax and join the discussion. There is nothing like the sound of your own voice to remove any seeming dullness. Some how, your own

ideas (especially on a subject not hefore considered) have a freshness which makes even a discussion of the allocation for Santa Claus' beard scintillate. If the question moves on to whether or whether not cookies should be served on a given occasion the possibilities are endless and sometimes you obtain some new recipes.

If. however, that bridge three­some is grinding its collective teeth and dealing out dummy hands, some action must be taken. This is most easily achieved by getting your ' committee set high on the agenda. If your chairman uses an alphabeti­cal listing and you are down at the bottom (the y;ay News Circle is) it's a good idea . to change your name. For instance, when we . ob­served Welfare Committee had resorted to the sneaky dodge of call­ing itself American Welfare Com­mittee, we immediately assumed the name Advisory Committee on Publications. We are holding our own now, though we've heard rumors Welfare voted to rename itself the Abolish Poverty .Com­mittee.

Once at the top of the agenda you get to read your report first of anyone. Then you can enjoy a long an• full discussion of your own project and when it is milked for all its savor you can rise, make your apologies and still be on time for bridge.

I think something should be said about the quality o,f the apology. This mutter of · "Doctor-ceiling leaks-painters-girl scouts---out-of­town guests-Dentist" is too diffuse. Better stick to the ceiling leak. This may seem uninspired but it doesn't leave t"1e company feeling you protest too much. As far as we are coTtcerned, we have it made. We stand up, look the chairman square in the eye and say with a sense of urgen~y "Deadline". And then with a jovial "Ho, ho", we add, "Can't stop the press!" and we're off. Merry Christmas!

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•

This is the time of Christmas The Merry time of year, When as the rich with plenty

stored Doth give the poor good cheer. Plum pudding and mince pies Stand smoking on the boa.rd, While other brave varieties· Our stomach doth afford.

Don't these old English Christmas Carol lines conjure up jolly visions? They sound much lustier set to music, of course, but the spirit is obvious even on the printed page.­Think of how many people worked for days and days to prepare the numerous dishes expected.

Christmas and its festivi<ties still tend to be the . high spot of our winter season. Perhaps we are for­tunate to be in India at this time, for here we avoid the high-pres­sure commercialization which has tended to tarnish observaitions at home. We are more free to .relax and enjoy our friends and families and to think about what Christmas really means.

Have you ever noticed that most families establish their own tradi­tional Christmas menus-a favorite snack Ito accompany the tree-trim­ming, or a special Christmas Eve menu, or a traditional Christmas dinner? Some of us will have to adapt these a bit to what is avail­able in Delhi. The hunter in your family may bag a pheasant. Duck

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might replace turkey. Or perhaps you will be happy with a lovely large ham. Fill in the bare spots with delicious Indian pickles, chutneys, and sweets.

Because you are likely to have more callers at this time, to say nothing of more children, it is fun to have extra cookies on hand. You can always get an extra fillip by adding cut-up gumdrops to your basic sugar cookie recipe-the multicolor, spicy pieces aild glamor and piquancy quite in keeping with the itimes. If you like to make cutout cookies in interesting shapes, but brought no forms with you. you cafi. find quite an assortment of cutters here, both metal and plastic (we bought ours in the Khan market).

Have you ever tried making your own marzipan to produce edible decorations? It's really quite simple.

MAR2;lPAN

1 lb almonds flavoring (rose water) ·

1 lb powdered sugar

Grind almonds very fine. Com­bine in saucepan with sugar and flavoring, cook until mixture leaves side of pan. Roll like like pie crust. Cut in small heart shapes, ~ay on buttered paper and place in warm place to dry. Decorate with cher­ries or any other fruit.

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If you want to mold shapes, slowly work the paste made above into an egg white beaten till fluffy. If it gets too thick to handle, add drop by drop some lemon juice. Mold into the desired form and brush on appropriate food coloring.

Would you like a good recipe for a buffet? Try this delicious French

. version of cheese pie.

QUICHE LORRAINE

2 cups flour 2 hard-boiled egg yolks 4 raw egg yolks 5 heaping tablespoons fat ! teaspoon dry mustard .

Salt Cayenne (red) pepper

4 tablespoons grated cheese 5 slices bacon 2 whole eggs ! cup cream

Pastry: Put the flour on a slab, make a well in the center and put in the strained, •d-boiled egg yolks. Add 3 raw egg yolks, fat, mustard, I teaspoon salt, paprika and 2 · tablespoons grated cheese. Work ceruter ingredients to a smooth paste. Work · in the flour and roll out not too thick;. Line a flan ring with wax paper. Put pastry in. Sprinkle with rice and bake for 20 minutes in a 350 degree oven. Remove and fill with the following:

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Filling : Cook finely shredded _baco_n until crisp in a hot pan; in the meantime beat 2 egs, and 1 egg yolk in a bowl. Add cream, 2 tablespoons grated' cheese, salt, cayenne pepper, crisp bacon and bacon fat. Fill the tart with this mixture and put to set for 15 minutes in a slow oven. Remove and eat hot.

Here is another pie recipe, , this time for a special dessert:

RUM CHIFFON PIE 6 egg yolks, well beaten 1 level cup sugar 1 tablespoon gelaitin , · ! cup cold water 1 pint cream, whipped stiff ! cup dark rum ! cup chopped pistachio nuts 1 9-inch baked pie crust

Beat the egg yolks and add the cup of sugar. Meanwhile, soak the gelatine in the cold water. Put the latter over a low flame, and allow to come to a boil. Remove from fire and add this to the egg mix­ture, stirring well. Fold in the beaten cream and flavor with rum. Cool. and allow to thicken a little, but not to set. Pour into pie shell, sprinkle top with pistachio nuts, and chill well.

So many gardens and window boxes are brightened by nastur­tiums in December that we could

not resist g1vmg you two old French recipes to try in a wild and frivolous moment. We leave it to you to provide · substitutes for un­available items. and to make sure that your gardening methods have left you with edible plants. -

ROLLED NASTURTIUM LEAVES (Paupiettes de Feuilles

de Capucines)

Remove the stalks from 8 large, fresh nasturtium leaves, wash them, and dry them carefully on a cloth. Shred some cold boiled fish and mix it with a little white sauce to which has been added some finely chopped capers, gherkins, parsley, and chervil, and two or three chop­ped anchovies. Spread this mixture thickly and smoothly over the leaves and roll them up to about the size of thick cigarettes, tying the ends firmly with thread. Sim­mer for about three minutes in a mixture, previously boiled, compos­ed half of vinegar and half of white wine, flavored with a sprig of

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thyme, a bay leaf, and salt and 1--------------­pepper. Then drain the paupiettes, arrange them neatly on a dish, and pour o'ver them two or three tea­spoons of (olive) oil. Set on ice, if possible, and serve very cold.

STUFFED N4i.')TURTIUM FLOWERS

(Fleurs de Capucines Fourrees)

This is one of the most delicate as well as one of the prettiest of hors d'oeuvres. Take some large full-grown nasturtium flowers. Re­move the pistils and the stalks close to the blossoms. Prepare a

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MARKET FARE

Continued from page 29

mixture of minced and shredded tuna fish, a few capers, 2 gherkins, parsley, and chervil, each ingredient being separately and finely minced. Bind with thick mayonnaise. The paste mu.st be smooth but not too moist, about the consistency of very thick porridge. Till each flower with a heapetj teaspon of this paste pressing down each petal firmly in its place so as to close the flower tightly. Arrange the blossoms thus filled on a dish, and keep on ice until served.

Merry Christmas to you all! We hope to have a special present for you in the next issue, to help you start the New Year with renewed uplift! We are going to devote the Food Column space to ideas for school lunches, a subject on which morale seems depressingly low.

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}JOME FOR CHRISTMAS Co11tinuedfrom page 24

at this time of year. By train, change at Bareilly in the wee morning hours. Last 22 miles by bus or taxi. Waldorf (tel. 91) and Belvedere (tel. 82) are open. Swiss Hotel (best) uncertain whether it will be open. (tel. 196)

Rani,khet: 227 miles by Rampur, 212 miles by Kashipur past Corbett Nationll. Park. Driving suggested. No air travel at this time, and same change as above by train, last 52 miles by , bus or car. Visit to Corbett Park recommended. West View Hotel (tel. 61).

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December is the month to enjoy your garden-it will never be less work for you than it is this ·month and the benefits of the care and the pruning of the previous months are now paying off. December gardens are at their best-fruits, flowers and vegetables.

The YWCA Chrysanthemum Show, The Rose Show and the American Women's Club Christmas Bazaar are December highlights. All three come well before you are into your Christmas rush, but will do wonders to help get you into the old-fashioned spirit of. Christmas.

This is the tenth anniversary for the Chrysanthemum Show. Every year there are more stalls of lovely things to buy and every year it seems the mums are more beautiful than ever before. This is a good place to spend the time from noon on-go early and buy your lunch between shopping sprees.

For the Rose Show, this is the third year in the Rose Society's own gardens. The established plants are coming on beautifully.

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The Christmas B'azaar will be held in the gardens at Roosevelt House again this year. We anti­cipate about thirty-five stalls and a large crowd. Again the best ad­vice is to come early and p}an to spend the morning. (And your · money).

Remember to seal the ends of your poinsettas with boiling water, or by burning, if you want them to last as cut flowers inside the house. Let your imagination lead when it's time to decorate your home for Christmas-the possibil­ities in Delhi are without end. For a few new ideas yo_u might take a peek at Roosevelt house sometime during the season-it will be a showplace . as always-this year the USMISMI wives are in charge of the decorating.

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INDIAN DANCE

(Continued from page 14)

Dance is also in the midst of a great revival of popularity. Hence many more performances are being given publicly, which means_ that you have the opportunity to ·shop around and sample the various techniques. It has become the style for a Bharat Natyam dancer to include other dance techniques in her presentation; it is during these performances that you will be . most likely to see Orissi or Mohini Attarri, for instance. There are a number of outstanding Indian dancers but the current dean of them ;11-active dean, that is-is the South Indian dancer Bala­saraswati. Although well into middle age and far from lithe any more, she has a dramatic ability and a precision that continues to draw a huge following of devotees. If ever you see an announcement of one of "Bala's" performances, rush to buy a ticket. You will know you've seen one of the Gr~ats! Suggestion: try to see a lesser hght first!

Just remember that most of these activities cease during the summer, so take advantage of them in the good months. Be sure to see all the live Indian dancing that you can, because, short of home-made movies, you won't get much chance to watch · it after you leave.

If you find that your interest de.: mands more information than this brief article has given, you may want to read or buy some books on the subject. Marg Magazine bound several issues together to give quite a comprehensive covering of the dance, including folk dances. A recent Taraporevala publication, "Dances of India", by Enakshi Bhavnani, also covers the field quite well and gives lots of nice pictures. The Sangeet Natak Akademi, located in Rabindra Bhavan at the juncture of Lytton and Ferozeshah roads, has a fine library which is open from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

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DECEMBER 1965

TOYS ON THE TAMARIND TREE (Continued from page 17)

encampments, the battles, the diplomatic scene­without a whisper of Christmas, but there are enough to start an impression which would probably be borne out by the memsahib's diaries, ·and which is surely true for us now: Christmas in British India was apt to be a very individual, a very improvised celebration. And of course it is often the richer for being so, instead of being handily unpacked from its boxes. •

Lady Henry Lawrence conveys that feeling simply and nicely in her memoirs. On Christmas Day, 1911, she was camped with her husband in the Sind. And their tent had been carefully pitched before a flowering Tamarind tree, on which they hung toys for their little son. Though she doesn't describe sparkling eyes and the rest, it must have been a perfectly realized Christmas for him. And, by reflection, for his family.

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TOY INDUSTRY

(Continued from page 19)

with demand for adult motivation the increase 'in cycles for children has been tremendous. . One shop on Janpath has seven sizes of cycles, five sizes with training wheels, for children aged two to eight. The prices are competitive. Depending on size and make the prices range from Rs. 55.00 to Rs. 110.00.

This year there are many new games for all ages. One in particular, a bowling game, caught our eye because of its· bright, clear color and durable apperance. An­other item for any member of the family is an all Indian made 'Viewmaster' manufactured i:d Bombay under license from Sawyers, Incorporated of Portland, Oregon. The 'Viewmaster' and one reel is priced at Rs. '1.4.00; separated reels are Rs. 2.25. The one we viewed recently was of famous scenes in Jordan and there were many more.

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DELHI DATEBOOK

(Continued from page 26)

This month's biggest show in the Delhi Art world will be held at AIF ACS from December 2 through the 21st. This is an International Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Each country has selected from its galleries, ten paintings, which have all been executed within the last twenty-five years. Should be interesting.

Photography Shows seem to be, in vogue this month. Kishore Tarikh's pictures of India will be at Dhoomi Mal's gallery from the 4th-7th. The International Cultural Center will present India Today as seen through the camera eye of Sunil Janah. This exhibit will be at Rabindra Bhavan from the 11th-21st.

Do you know about the Art Connoisseur's Club? I didn't think so. They have a library of art works which are available on loan-for a small fee. They will also be happy to sell your borrowed painting or sculpture to you, should you find you can't exist without it. "The scheme is addressed particularly to those who are sincerely in love with art but somehow do not make up their mind to buy imme­diately.'' Contact the Silpi Chakra Art Gallery,· 19 Shankar Market, phone 44638. ·

For a mere pittance you may be the lucky girl to win a painting for your very own self. The pic­ture is one of Penny Weidul's (well known a_rtist who formerly resided in Delhi) and will be raffled off at the A WC Christmas Bazaar on December first. Tickets are being sold by A WC wives and will also be available at the Bazaar itself. The ~oceeds will go to Mother Theresa's Home for abandoned children.

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