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Article: Anti-nuclear activists fill the streets. (New Delhi and Calcutta demonstrations against India and Pakistan nuclear testing)(Brief Article)
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- October 1, 1998
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In August, anti-nuclear activists turned out in huge numbers to criticize India and Pakistan for testing atomic bombs.
A number of people not usually associated with anti-nuclear causes showed up for protests on the anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Indian writer Arundhati Roy, who won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things, marched in New Delhi. Mrinal Sen, probably India's most famous living film director, helped organize one of the Calcutta demonstrations, which involved 250,000 people in a series of marches through the city streets, according to press reports.
The march in New Delhi was smaller. Kamal Mitra Chenoy, a ...