Stockton High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Stockton, IL)

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Annual Staff STANDING-P. Murphy, P. Clark, Mr. Neff, Adviser; B. Eden, R. Viel, G. Miller, D. VandeWeerd, A. Thomas. SEATED - D. Drane, Business Manager; D. Feltmeyer, K. Feltmeyer, Editor; N. Michael, J. Buford. Smile! Annual Staff is snapping YOU.

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 ommentary On India by SABRA RAZA After living in America for almost seven months, I have arrived at the conclusion that novels, magazines, newspapers, and movies are not a person's best guide. While in India these sources were my only means of information re- garding America. These had successfully managed to deluge my mind with confused images envision- ing America as a land of magnates and movie stars, leading a press-button life, and frantic, emotionally unstable teenagers patronizing the beauty salons and night clubs. These seven months in the United States have been a most precious experience in a tl nately, for both me and eradicate my ri ge rated imprj 1 know are basical! between tl more pn ;and ways and ft :afhave h a and, iral dil mntrii isjlestowfc vet unlil and compulsory 32% of its vast since the ac has been plan year plannin; Plan is in pro; India hopes t cation to all has tried to i cal instituti labor. It has rj represented 1 Indian pop maining thi c ula ment her ystem. s and on ovide com oftng8ters. A1 reduce adult e o encourage of feSping her s increa 3ed be- stjtiflization as veil as ve methods of agri ulture. lation also augme its the and low incomes, both of standard of livin Con- been able to affi rd free to all its peop e. Only is literate. R scentb India y , til' been said thati ll idia. Sixty-sevi tioa is Hindu whilaruui y-tqree percent, tin1' eligi ns cer , of of he rc|nt nTy-tii ni Area: 1,259,995 square miles, me nation is a pen- ninsula . . . sealed from Asian heartland by a gigantic barrier of the Himalayas . . . extends 2,000 miles from disputed Kashmir with its floating gardens and snow-dusted mountains ... to the spice coasts of Coromandel and Mala- bar . . . part of northwest is a desert (where Sabra lives in Suratgarh on the huge 30,000 acre Central Mechanized Farm) . . . central India forms a hilly, brush-clad plateau . . . only narrow coastal strips and the teeming Ganges plain in the north contain arable acres ... 70% of its people are farmers . . . population: 440 million . . . India's population is one seventh of the human race . . . language 165 dialects, 95% of population speaks 12 of these . . . 50% speak Hindu, the national language . . . Religion: 85% Hindu . . . chief products: leads world in tea, sugar cane; second to China in rice production , . . rich iron ore resources, bauxite, manganese, chromite, and copper. Major cities: Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, commercial cen- ters; Varanasi, Agra, cultural centers; New Delhi, capital. Climate from arctic of Himalayas to tropical of southern coasts; most of peninsula ranges from temperate to moist subtropical. Money standard: rupee (about 25?), government: sovereign democratic republic, two houses of parliament.. . heritage, developed Arabic numerals, the decimal system, and the first cotton textiles. urban dwellers. Most urban homes are made of •ick and mortar and often equipped with electri- ld water facilities. On the other hand, most lXiomes are mud huts with thatched roofs seldoi i a'isJd having any jsystem which still Though c DEFACTO he Brahmi ;emple and fle s, potters, tugrugmeti. ern conveniences. The dying out in the cities ong hold on the rural illegal by thegovern- 1 exist in the villages still has the monopoly and the untouchables rs, and washermen) cause of the 165 distinct out the country. Almos t mal dialect. As a public md private, teach regionaTTfcqguage to the s Music dancing a Indian life. Ea i state music and darning wh quality of its own Indiar a manifestation ot all age of India, but blem be- at ects spoken through- eve ry state has its result, most schools, English, Hindu, and a udents. •e a significant part of jatronizes its regional ch has a distinctive music and dancing are walks of Indian life. independencl, Ii omy throug] a third Fi j mpletion n 1! 65, ry prima ry c du- with thi i, Ii dia m bd ion and ted ni- d mec lan zed As the time approach ;s for my return home, must carry bi irstandiiflgs new un so different and| tnd of har h j merit |y co a status e rSCTal problems exist land where educati oh i m r any people as the Tl West to m o India my discoveries 3f the real America-a similar to my own, a pcfcple, who, by dint of ligher standard of living 1 .nd where women have tb tl it of men, a land where nu |h like our caste system, one's inalienable right lhan hj)uivile4e, tnd a land with whose [ortiei; assassinated president •n U r a dear friend, may be Earn [generatio ha twain meet deen»it TSiFFerences are Hindus and Moslems not only apparent between but also between rural and link in tms chain of under-

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