Word: bangladesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scared--or at the very least, cautious in talking on subjects not involving the types of cuisine they prefer or even what they think about the unfamiliar largelecture style of education at Harvard. About personal life histories--almost all came from elite Westernized families in places like India, Bangladesh and Ghana--they are mostly open, some even voluble. But about polities outside the bonds approved by their governments they hesitate to speak, at least two of them citing fear of their country's secret police organizations or government informers in this country as reasons for their silence...
Understandably, the students I spoke to by and large feel distant from their impoverished countrymen. Poku-Appiah's three sisters all live in London, far from their native Kumasi, married to Ghanaians engaging in things like medicine and building contracting. Omar Rahman '79, from Dacca, Bangladesh, says: "I feel closer to people here than at home--but I'm not at home here either. I guess I'm somewhere in between. Rahman, whose mother is a biochemist with a Ph.D. from Yale and father holds an M.S. as an engineer from lowa, grew up speaking four languages (Bengali, Hindi, Urdu...
...Pakistan's ancient quarrels with India and Afghanistan continue. Moreover, Bhutto's hope of a return to close relations with Bangladesh following the August assassination of President Sheik Mujibur Rahman was shattered by a series of coups and countercoups (TIME, Aug. 25), even though Islamabad...
...TIES WITH BANGLADESH: If the people of the two countries want good relations, neither India nor any other country can prevent those good relations from taking shape. Bangladesh was once part of Pakistan, so there will be considerable warmth in that relationship; no nation should misunderstand that. However, to what extent the relationship is to develop is really for the people of Bangladesh to determine. It was they who wanted the separation. It is now up to them to tell us how close they want to come to us. We don't want to kill Bangladesh with kindness...
Calcutta presents a harrowing vision. The destitute, the skin-and-bones starving, the leprous and the dying seem to be concentrated there as nowhere else in India-or the world. Their numbers, swollen by past waves of refugees from Bangladesh, grow daily. At least 200,000 of them live in the streets, building tiny fires to cook their scraps of food, defecating at curbstones, curling up in their cotton rags against a wall to sleep-and often to die. Out of this scene of unremitting human desolation has come an extraordinary message of love and hope. Its bearer...