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...years old before, as far as I can remember, the word pornography ever crossed my lips in public." But after seeing the London production of Oh! Calcutta!, the seventh Earl of Longford rose in the House of Lords last year to deliver an anti-obscenity speech so stirring that it stirred the Earl himself to action. Last week an unofficial, privately financed 52-man committee chosen and headed by Longford, completed 16 months of investigation by publishing a 520-page report on pornography. Unlike the President's commission in the U.S., Lord Longford's study found that pornography...
...most visible change in India since independence is in the beginnings of a consumer society. Bicycles, wristwatches and sewing machines are now commonplace. TV has come to New Delhi, and will shortly be extended to other cities. The skylines of Bombay and Calcutta have been changed by high-rise buildings, and factories that did not exist 25 years ago today manufacture jet planes, atomic reactors and computers. But perhaps the most important measure of the distance India has come is the fact that for the first time in history it has become self-sufficient in food production. Today the government...
Moscow Links. Only Mujib himself, the country's Prime Minister, escapes such criticism. Despite his undiminished popularity, Mujib has yet to provide the kind of leadership that Bangladesh needs. Since his triumphant return to Dacca last January, after spending nine months in prison in Pakistan, he has visited Calcutta and even Moscow, but has scarcely ventured out into his own country...
...whether you arrive at Dacca's war-damaged airport or travel the tree-lined main road from Calcutta, it is the relaxed, peaceful atmosphere that is most noticeable. Even as travel to Bangladesh becomes more difficult, customs and immigration officials are genuinely friendly and polite, smiling broadly, cheerily altering your entry forms so that you conform with the latest regulations. There is no antagonism to individual Americans. Once it is known that you are an American, however, the inevitable question is: How could the Nixon Administration have behaved the way that it did? There is in fact an almost...
After earning a B.A. in history and political science at Calcutta's Islamia College-where he developed a taste for the writings of Bernard Shaw and Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore-Mujib enrolled as a law student at Dacca University. He supported a strike by the university's menial workers, and quickly found himself in jail once again. He indignantly rejected an offer to be set free on bail. "I did not come to the university to bow my head to injustice," he said grandly. When he got out of jail, Mujib discovered that he had been expelled from...