Letter from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, to James Ivory, Dinuba, California, 1965 September 30 : autograph manuscript signed.

Offering a long and detailed update on the current conflict between India and Pakistan-- "a cease-fire but a very uncomfortable one"--including the prevailing anti-British sentiment and a crackdown on public speech, with their friend Utpal Dutt being arrested for an article he published "in some leftist magazine or other"; saying it is "nice to know" how well "Shakespeare Wallah" was received at the festival in New York, and commenting at length on the list of scenes Ivory sent in a previous letter which were most favored by the audience [see MA 23840.191]; recounting how Leela Naidu has reappeared with a new boyfriend, a Sanskrit scholar from Harvard in India on a Fulbright scholarship-- Jhab and Nirad Chaudhuri both unimpressed; telling Ivory that "The Householder" is playing again in Delhi, and she recently saw "Kapurush-o-Mahapurush"-- the weakest Ray I've seen"; saying Ray's films suffer from director of photography Subrata Mitra's absence; mildly chastising Ivory for letting Merchant go on television with Carl Dreyer and Otto Preminger [again, see MA 23840.191].