India says rescue operations concluded after worst train crash in decades BAHANAGA, India, June 4 (Reuters) - Indian authorities said they had concluded rescue operations on Sunday after the country's deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of death for at least 275 people. The death toll from Friday evening's crash was revised down from 288 after it was found that some bodies had been counted twice, said Pradeep Jena, chief secretary of the eastern state of Odisha. But nearly 1,200 were injured when a passenger train hit a stationary freight train, went off the tracks and hit another passenger train passing in the opposite direction near the district of Balasore. State-run Indian Railways, which says it transports more than 13 million people every day, has been working to improve its patchy safety record, blamed on ageing infrastructure. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who faces an election due next year, visited the sc
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If Eliot is the poem’s mother, then perhaps Pound was right to claim the role of obstetrician: “If you must needs enquire Know diligent Reader That on each Occasion Ezra performed the Caesarean Operation.” Quote from Ezra Pound’s “Sage Homme,” a poem included in his December 24, 1921, letter to T.S. Eliot celebrating The Waste Land. This online exhibit, Better Craftsmen, Not Gods , is a critical examination of the development of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land . One manuscript of the poem, as annotated by Ezra Pound and Vivienne Eliot prior to the poem’s 1922 debut publications in The Criterion and The Dial, was lost and later rediscovered and added to the New York Public Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection. Written between 1919 and 1922 and twice the length of the poem as published, this manuscript included the five core movements of the final poem plus three additional, unpublished movements and eight more miscellaneous poems ranging from five to 73 lines that Eli