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Birth-control advocates insist that unless drastic measures are taken now, India's population will totally outstrip its national resources by 1985; in Punjab, for example, land holdings are already officially limited to 30 acres. Even Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, once a skeptic on the subject, now agrees. Boasts Nehru: "There is more talk and action on birth control in India officially than in any other country." As if to back up his claim, the Indian government last week announced that the current sterilization campaign is only the beginning. It figures that if 2,150,000 Indians were sterilized...
...title three years ago, the Aga Khan's principal job has been dispensing largess. Inevitably, he must turn down far more requests than he grants. In Pakistan, he inaugurated a housing project as a step toward his goal of "a house for every Ismaili family." At Punjab University, he set up five scholarships abroad, but he rejected a student demand for a $500,000 contribution: "Not a chance...
...Lord. "The first thing our boys seem to get when they go abroad," sniffed one Punjab University coed, "is the LL.D.-the landlady's daughter. Is it any wonder that we are annoyed?" A letter to the Pakistan Times charged: "Most Pakistanis who have married Western girls belong to the upper strata of society while the girls are from the lower classes. Have you heard of an English lord or duke having a Pakistani or other foreign wife?"* Still others cattily cited the unfairness of Western wiles. "Foreign girls capture our men by going out with them and spending...
...such farmer is wiry, half-naked Jagjit, sixtyish, whose 20 acres of Punjab sugar cane, wheat and pulses brought him a cash income of $485 last year. For weeks Jagjit worked night and day carrying buckets to save his half-acre patch of cane from the searing Indian sun; last week the violent onset of monsoon rains threatened to wash away his fields. Jagjit cannot afford to buy chemical fertilizer. He uses cow dung to manure his fields, but only during the monsoon, when the dung cannot be dried; the rest of the time he collects it in great mounds...
...side of the frontier the terrain is equally bad. In fact, the only satisfactory invasion route into India from the north is the one that has been trod since time immemorial by Aryans, Greeks, Huns, Mongols and Persians: from central Asia, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, and down onto the Punjab plain. But that would involve the consent of Russia, as well as war with Pakistan. At the moment the Soviet Union is insisting on its friendship to India and is urging restraint upon Red China...