India to America

WE are happy to announce that beginning in the October issue, The Atlantic in co-operation with Intercultural Publications, Inc., will bring its readers a series of supplements devoted to the arts and letters of various foreign countries. The first of these supplements, Perspective of India, will present the work of contemporary writers and painters of India selected by Harvey Breit, Assistant Editor of the New York Times Book Review. The second, edited by Charles Rolo of the Atlantic staff, will appear early in 1954 and will deal with the Low Countries. A third on Japan is now in contemplation.

Intercultural Publications was established in 1952 by The Ford Foundation to help bring about better world understanding through the exchange of cultural materials. Examples of the cultural achievements of our own country are disseminated abroad by the magazine Perspectives USA, which is published quarterly in English, French, German and Italian. In the Atlantic Supplements a cross-section of the culture of other lands will be brought to American readers.

Our first Supplement, Perspective of India, is a selection of the work of contemporary Indian authors. In it will be found essays tracing the Western influence in India and others discussing the problems which face the world’s newest and largest republic in a troubled world; papers on the spiritual influence of Gandhi; articles on Indian music, dance and film; a medley of short stories; an anthology of Indian poetry translated from the vernacular languages and color reproductions of contemporary Indian art.

Editor of the Atlantic