in Bangla Desh. There is only one way in which India can render service to Bangla Desh and bring the matter to a head without getting involved in recognition or a war with Pakistan.
A New Threat
Already nearly a million refugees have poured into India. This is posing a new threat to our economy and administration. The party at the Centre has been returned to power by the electorate on the basis of programme the objective of which is to eradicate poverty. The mounting relief operations along the Indo-Pakistan border in the East are eating away our resources which are badly needed for economic development. We should not forget that our own people need mobile hospitals kitchen for the poor clothes for the naked houses for the homeless hope for the hopeless.
The time has come for India to take up in a big way the matter of relief in all the major capitals of the world as well as with all the international relief organizations-FAO WHO International Red Cross UNESCO CARE and so many others. What prevents super-powers and major powers as well as so-called Afro-Asian countries from making liberal specially for the purpose?
Relief operations do not involve teasing legal and political issues. If hundreds of thousands of damaged lives are to be repaired surely the world cannot cast the entire burden on India and wash its hands of the whole business. Why do we not rear up our whole information and diplomatic machinery to meet the challenge.-INFA
