New Delhi Censures Faye Levine For 'Anti-Indian' News Reporting

The Irrepressible, ever intrepid Faye Levine '65 is at it again.

Seemingly undaunted by last year's unsuccessful bid for class marshal, Miss Levine, presently in India of a Fulbright teaching fellowship, is now under attack from the Irlian government for what are teamed "Anti-Indian" activities.

The New York Times reported yesterday that India has objected to the accounts of the Kashmir situation which Miss Levine wrote for News-week this fall. An Indian official was also said to contend that Newsweek "sought only information hostile to India."

When she learned last string that she would be in India this ear, Miss Levine arranged to work for News-week as a part-time correspondent. After the fighting broke out News-week asked Miss Levine for her impressions of the situation in Kashmir on the basis of the three weeks she spent there during the summer.

Despite a warning from the Fulbright Committee not to talk politics, Miss Levine, with her penchant for public opinion polls, had spoken to many Kashmiri.

She wrote to Newsweek that since the overwhelming majority of Kashmiri is Moslem (the state religion of Pakistan), they tend to be anti-Indian. Miss Levine also stressed that accounts of anti-Indian sentiment are systematically omitted from the Indian press.

Her information was incorporated into a Sept. 20 Newsweek article which included the sentence: "One old peasant woman a purple cotton pajamas dragged Newsweek correspondent Faye Levine off the street during a recent visit to whisper. Tell them in America we want to be free.'"

The reaction to American coverage of the Kashmir war was violent. At New Delhi University students burned a pile of Time magazines. Link, the Indian equivalent of Time or Newsweek, criticized Miss Levine's reports.

Miss Levine will be allowed to remain in India where she is teaching at a girls' school in Gwalior, 180 miles south of New Delhi, until next spring when her visa expires. Then it is understood that she will leave the country. Other Fulbright Fellows will have the option to renew their visas at that time