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Stella R.
1963
Asian Trip
Calcutta
Jan. 26 The film centers on a man in a small village. He has had to borrow money for his daughter's wedding. He then has to borrow money to keep her farm. He is perpetually in debt. He goes to the city to find work & sleeps on the street. The British company found an excellent local farmer who proved to be an excellent actor. He was put up in the Grand Hotel. The local help accepted him, although below them in rank, because they were told he was an actor.
One difficulty in getting across birth control is the desire for boys. A family keeps growing until their are adequate numbers of boys; girls cost money when married off. Many children is a gnostic factor and men are not inclined to have vasectomies because they think it will impair their post-pleasure.
What else is there to do in India after dark?
Miss Marx (14 mo. in India) feels that education is more important than a birth control program. Latter cannot work without former although she considers that a pill with an aphrodisiac attached might work.
If one hurts a cow he is in