October 1953

Articles

• Movies and TV: Murder or Merger?

  "What do the three-dimensional movie and the wide screen add to a motion picture? Do they really improve the artistic and aesthetic qualities of the medium to the degree necessary to recapture lost audiences permanently? In what ways are motion pictures inherently superior or inferior to television?"

  John T. Rule

• October Frost

  Josephine Johnson is a native of Missouri whose first short story appeared in the Atlantic and who won the Pulitzer Prize with her beautifully descriptive novel, Now in November. Three years ago, she and her husband bought a majestic house a hundred and thirty years old on the outskirts of Cincinnati. In this essay she depicts the explorations which she and her children have carried out in the early autumn on their three surrounding acres.

  Josephine Johnson

• Germany

• Of Mice and Women

  Marjorie Riddell

• Thank-You Notes

  Loyd Rosenfield

• All Gaul..

  John Gould

• Tenacious

  Russ Newbold

• Editor's Introduction

  Harvey Breit

• India to America: The Position of India in World Politics

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

• This Soul-Cherishing Whisper

  Shabbir Hasan Khan Josh

• Talks With India's Vice-President: Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Nancy Wilson Ross

• The Barbers' Trade Union: A Story

  Mulk Raj Anand

• The Fiction Writer in India: His Tradition and His Problems

  R. K. Narayan

• Daughter India

• Prisoners

  Humayun Kabir

• Morning in Delhi: A Story

  Ahmed Ali

• Sonnet for Music

  P. Lal

• The Pomegranate Prince: A Folk Tale of Bengal

• Prayer

  Tambimuttu

• The Indian Film: Must Bombay Follow Hollywood?

  Donald Thomas and Harish Kumar Mehra

• For a Child in Time of Famine

  Mary Erulkar

• Indian Art: Yesterday and Today

  Karl Khandalawala

• Javni: A Story

  Raja Rao

• Poetry in India: Its Heritage and New Directions

  Tambimuttu

• A Perfect Country

  B. Rajan

• The Man Who Died of a Fever

  Srinivas Rayaprol

• Four Poems

  Buddhadeva Bose

• The Music of India: And Its Role in Indian Dance

  Narayana Menon

• Afternoon Magic

  Nayantara Sahgal

• Dance and Opera in Manipur: The Survival of Ritual Theatre

  Faubion Bowers

• Radha

  P. S. Rege

• The Opium Eater: A Story

  Iqbal Ahmad

• The Spirit of India: And the Abiding Influence of Gandhi

  Nayantara Sahgal

• O Business World!

  Amiya Chakravarty

• A Glossary of Indian Words

• A Chronology of Indian History

• Biographical Notes on the Poets

  BUDDHADEVA BOSE was born in 1908 in Bengal, where, as Editor of the Calcutta magazine Kavita, he has been a leader of the modern literary movement. He will be an exchange lecturer at the Pennsylvania College for Women in Pittsburgh this winter.

• Acknowledgments

• Indian Films and Recordings

• Map of India and Surrounding Countries

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