mazum@iitcs.UUCP (Pinaki Mazumder) (04/21/85)
Ref: <1610@ut-ngp.UUCP> Excerpts from Mr. Atul Arya's posting on E.M.Foster's "A Passage to India": > Mr. M.Friedman @ Bell Comm. Res., Piscataway, NJ writes > (with reference to "A Passage to India"): >> I was really sickened by this portrayal of yesterdays India. >> To this day I still can't figure out how this atrocity >> recieved so many Academy Awards. The film lasted for a >> period not exceeding 3 hours. Ten minutes into the film we >> were ready to leave, but after paying $4.00 a piece we >> refused to leave the theater, without a full refund... >> Granted the director got together 100's of the lowlife's >> from India to shoot the film, just like Ghandi... Big >> f*uckin deal! My advise is to stay away from Assage to >> India...... Mr. Freidman and others those who share his views are requested to read the US News & World Report. It may help to rectify their mental aberrations and, possibly, will induce them to book their passage to India this summer. ---------------- The popularity of the movies "Passage to India" and "Gandhi" and the television series "Jewel in the Crown" has kindled interest in India, travel agents report. A two-week trip to the subcontinent, includ- ing air fare from the U.S., costs about $3,000 per person, counting meals, lodging and transportation. On the itinerary are the Taj Mahal and such cities as Delhi and Jaipur. US News & World Report April 22, 1985, pp 54. Mazumder, P. ihnp4!iitcs!mazum 9 9