https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article403.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article403.html 2007-11-03T17:01:55Z text/html en P. M. Warrier <p>In their little den on Park Lane in Calcutta half a dozen young Malayalees, mostly clerks and typists, listened intently as a tiny bespectacled man in his early 30s read aloud a graphic account of how the city greeted India's independence only a couple of days earlier. As the momentous hour approached, the multitudes of the hitherto riot-torn metropolis had poured out on to the streets singing, dancing, spontaneously embracing one another and welcoming the dawn of freedom in near delirium. (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique39.html" rel="directory">November 3, 2007</a>