THISWEEKTHATERA

“There have come up good and bad buildings … Delhi is now a vast sea in which the seven old Delhis will be drowned.”

Sir Mortimer Wheeler, renowned archeologist, in New Delhi

JP WARNING ON DROUGHT

NOV 22: Mr Jayaprakash Narayan, Sarvodaya leader, today (November 21) presented a grim picture of the drought-affected areas of south Bihar and said a famine situation was developing there rapidly. GUERILLAS ABDUCT 109 PEOPLE

NOV 25: Vietcong guerillas today (Nov 24) kidnapped 109 people, most of them children, from a hamlet in the Mekong Delta, a South Vietnamese military spokesman reported today (Nov 24).

NOV 20: Czechoslovak President Antonin Novotny receiving flowers from children at Palam airport

NOV 25: Details of a brass lamp at the National Museum