Dhono Dhanne Pushpe Bhora (English Translation)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElJycoQlzcq9Gxhao5Ubofy2J1xdMRQcVihbGmfbhc-FgG-iQTMRNf88teQbw9LAZvpccOM-BvPCIArHV5XvOsrKs4vzS4hU1ig3mWblph8ZPeMrb-tpVZmChwBFsc6uQvFRmwIhlSTs/s1600/sof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElJycoQlzcq9Gxhao5Ubofy2J1xdMRQcVihbGmfbhc-FgG-iQTMRNf88teQbw9LAZvpccOM-BvPCIArHV5XvOsrKs4vzS4hU1ig3mWblph8ZPeMrb-tpVZmChwBFsc6uQvFRmwIhlSTs/s640/sof.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> During the 1940s, a new trend of Bengali songs, known as Gana Sangeet, or people’s songs became popular in Bengal and its suburbs. It was popularized by those patriots who were against the British oppression on the then hapless natives of the British Indian Empire. These songs were imbued with a patriotic fervour and aimed for the freedom of the natives from the exploitation of the Indians. <br /><br />From birth, Sri Dwijendralal Roy had an interest in music and he was initially trained in classical music by his father, who was a pioneer amongst the Bengali classical vocalists. While he was in England, he trained himself in western music too. In those times, Sri D. L. Roy was considered a Bengali Poet, playwright and musician known primarily for his Bengali patriotic songs. <br /><br />During this period Rabindranath Tagore, Mukundo Das, and Kazi Nazrul Islam would compose their patriotic songs and the output of Sri D.L. Roy as well as his contemporary Rajanikant wereno less. The Swadeshi Movement and the Partition of Bengal in 1905, during the time of the cursed Curzon, inspired and fired the imagination of Sri D.L. Roy to compose songs of patriotism, nationalism which reflected the earthiness of Bengal. He had composed about 500 songs, including “Bango Amar Jononi Amar” and “Oi Moha Shindhur Opar Thekey” apart from “Dhana Dhanya Pushpa Bhara”.<br /><br />Like the compositions of Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindrasangeet, Dwijendralal’s compositions are known as Dwijendrageeti. Roy’s songs ere exemplified by reality, splendour, joyfulness of life and has become a part of the Bengali bhadhratha.(Bengali ethos).<br /><br />A prominent littérateur of Modern India, he passed away on May 17th 1913 in Calcutta.<br /><br />Unlike many others his death was a great loss to the Indians, both in Bengal and in other parts of India. <br /><br />He is still remembered and respected for his sheer dedication for the improvement of Bengali Literature and motivating thousands of Bengalis to participate in the Indian Freedom Movement. <br /><br />If your eyes well up, and you shed tears unabashedly, that is as it should be. It is one of the undying characteristics of one who loves his Motherland. Do not be a coward. Let the tears roll on your cheeks and fall on the Motherland and wash away all our sins! </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> Fields of golden grains, meadows of fragrant flowers, <br />Two delights from earth of her many natural treasures,<br />Nestled within is a place divine set far above all measures,<br />Created from dreams anchored by memories, <br />Nowhere else a place of such luminous glories, <br />This the Queen of all lands on earth,</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> This the land of my birth, the hallowed land of my birth, <br />This place a beacon, bright as sun, moon and stars of heaven, <br />A glowing inviting vessel under the churns of darkening skies,<br />A magical land whose crooning birds awaken me to the morning light,<br />And the same melodious sounds bid me into the night,<br />Whose birds suckle nectar from blossoming flowers <br />Then nest underneath for their nightly shelter, <br />The soothing serenity of its rivers that glisten, <br />And the distant hazes of its mountains jut the horizon, <br />Its land bursting with the glow of blooms ablaze, <br />And fusing with the sky into an enchanted place, <br />Its fields of grains stir as ripples of waves, <br />Played upon by the gentle winds in their seasonal embrace, <br />This bond that tugs, rivals love for a brother or mother, <br />I yearn we not separate but forever stay together, <br />This land that nourished and nurtured me from birth, <br />How I wish this be the place of my final breath on earth.</div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> - Translated by Zakariya Mohyuddin</div> </div>

Dhono Dhanne Pushpe Bhora (English Translation)

  During the 1940s, a new trend of Bengali songs, known as Gana Sangeet, or people’s songs became popular in Bengal and its suburbs....

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Ekbar biday de Ma ghure ashi (Bid me goodbye Mother)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElJycoQlzcq9Gxhao5Ubofy2J1xdMRQcVihbGmfbhc-FgG-iQTMRNf88teQbw9LAZvpccOM-BvPCIArHV5XvOsrKs4vzS4hU1ig3mWblph8ZPeMrb-tpVZmChwBFsc6uQvFRmwIhlSTs/s1600/sof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElJycoQlzcq9Gxhao5Ubofy2J1xdMRQcVihbGmfbhc-FgG-iQTMRNf88teQbw9LAZvpccOM-BvPCIArHV5XvOsrKs4vzS4hU1ig3mWblph8ZPeMrb-tpVZmChwBFsc6uQvFRmwIhlSTs/s640/sof.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Ekbar biday de Ma ghure ashi ("Bid me goodbye Mother") is a Bengali patriotic song written by Pitambar Das.This song was composed in honour of Khudiram Bose. This song is still very popular in West Bengal(India), Khudiram Bose is highly revered as a hero in India particularly West Bengal.<br /><br />Khudiram Bose was the first Bengali warrior rebel who was hanged by British Government. Khudiram took part in armed revolution against the British Raj was sentenced to death and hanged on 11 August 1908. At that time he was only 18 years old. The song was written on the occasion Khudiram's death. It was celebrated farewell song by Khudiram. Entire Bengali nation shed tears over this song.<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekbar_biday_de_Ma_ghure_ashi#cite_note-Gangopadhyaya2004-6"></a>The song written when young Khudiram was hanged to death. In the song, (in first person narrative), Khudiram is asking his mother to bid him goodbye (since he is going to die).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> Mother bid me farewell once, I will be back soon.<br /> Whole of India will watch me While I wear the noose smiling<br /><br />I prepared a bomb on my own<br /> And was waiting by the roadside O Mother<br /> I wanted to kill the master<br /> But killed some other English people<br /><br />Let me bid me you farewell Mother, I need to go<br /> If I had a dagger with me<br /> I wouldn’t have been caught<br /> I would have killed or slashed myself to death<br /><br />On Saturday morning after 10AM<br /> The Judge Court Road will be packed with people O Mother<br /> Abhiram was deported to an island,<br /> Khudiram will hang by the neck<br /><br />12 lac and 33 crore<br /> Is the number of sons and daughters you will have left O Mother<br /> Build your family around them<br /> And they will make British slave<br /><br />10 months and 10 days from now<br /> I shall be born to my maternal aunt O Mother<br /> If you don’t recognize me<br /> Look for the noose around my neck.</div> </div> </div>

Ekbar biday de Ma ghure ashi (Bid me goodbye Mother)

  Ekbar biday de Ma ghure ashi ("Bid me goodbye Mother") is a Bengali patriotic song written by Pitambar Das.This song was c...

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Bangladesh: George Harrison

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElJycoQlzcq9Gxhao5Ubofy2J1xdMRQcVihbGmfbhc-FgG-iQTMRNf88teQbw9LAZvpccOM-BvPCIArHV5XvOsrKs4vzS4hU1ig3mWblph8ZPeMrb-tpVZmChwBFsc6uQvFRmwIhlSTs/s1600/sof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjElJycoQlzcq9Gxhao5Ubofy2J1xdMRQcVihbGmfbhc-FgG-iQTMRNf88teQbw9LAZvpccOM-BvPCIArHV5XvOsrKs4vzS4hU1ig3mWblph8ZPeMrb-tpVZmChwBFsc6uQvFRmwIhlSTs/s640/sof.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Bangla Desh is a song by English musician George Harrison. It was released as a non-album single in July 1971, to raise awareness for the millions of refugees from the country formerly known as East Pakistan, following the 1970 Bhola cyclone and the outbreak of the Bangladesh Liberation War. Harrison's inspiration for the song came from his friend Ravi Shankar, a Bengali musician, who approached Harrison for help in trying to alleviate the suffering. "Bangla Desh" has been described as "one of the most cogent social statements in music history" and helped gain international support for Bangladeshi independence by establishing the name of the fledgling nation around the world. In 2005, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan identified the song's success in personalizing the Bangladesh crisis, through its emotive description of Shankar's request for help. <br /><br />It was pop music's first charity single, and its release took place three days before the Harrison-sponsored Concert for Bangladesh shows at New York's Madison Square Garden. The recording was co-produced by Phil Spector and features contributions from Leon Russell, Jim Horn, Ringo Starr and Jim Keltner.<br /><br />Backed by these musicians and others including Eric Clapton and Billy Preston, Harrison performed "Bangla Desh" at the UNICEF concerts, on 1 August 1971, as a rousing encore. In a review of the Concert for Bangladesh live album for Rolling Stone magazine, Jon Landau identified this reading as "the concert's single greatest performance by all concerned".<br /><br />A Bengali by birth, Shankar had already brought the growing humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh to Harrison's attention, while staying at the ex-Beatle's house, Friar Park, earlier in the year. The state formerly known as East Pakistan (and before that, East Bengal) had suffered an estimated 300,000 casualties when the Bhola cyclone hit its shores on 12 November 1970, and the indifference shown by the ruling government in West Pakistan, particularly by President Yahya Khan, was just one reason the Bengali national movement sought independence on 25 March 1971. This declaration resulted in an immediate military crackdown by Khan's troops, and three days later the Bangladesh Liberation War began. By 13 June, details of the systematic massacre of citizens were beginning to emerge internationally via the publication in London's Sunday Times of an article by Anthony Mascarenhas. Along with the torrential rains and intensive flooding that were threatening the passage of millions of refugees into north-eastern India, this news galvanised Shankar into approaching Harrison for help in trying to alleviate the suffering. "I was in a very sad mood, having read all this news," Shankar later told Rolling Stone magazine, "and I said, 'George, this is the situation, I know it doesn't concern you, I know you can't possibly identify.' But while I talked to George he was very deeply moved ... and he said, 'Yes, I think I'll be able to do something.'" <br /><br />As a result, Harrison committed to staging the Concert for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden, New York, on Sunday, 1 August. Six weeks of frantic activity ensued as Harrison flew between New York, Los Angeles and London, making preparations and recruiting other musicians to join him and Shankar for the shows. While conceding that Harrison was no "natural sloganeer" in the manner of his former bandmate John Lennon, author Robert Rodriguez has written: "if any ex-Fab had the cachet with his fan base to solicit good works, it was the spiritual Beatle."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br />Foreign journalists had been deported from East Pakistan shortly before the Pakistani army's Operation Searchlight, and even after Mascarenhas' first-hand observations had been published, Shankar and Harrison were concerned that the mainstream media in the West were showing a reluctance to report all the facts.That summer, it also emerged that America was supporting General Khan's military offensive, both financially and with weaponry – despite the Blood telegram in April, in which officials at the US Consulate in Dacca advised their State Department of the "genocide" taking place and accused the US Government of "moral bankruptcy". Realising the need to create greater awareness of the situation in Bangladesh, and particularly the refugee camps of India that had become "infectious open-air graveyards" with the outbreak of cholera, Harrison quickly composed a song for the cause. "Bangla Desh" was "written in ten minutes at the piano", he would later recall. The title translates as "Bengal nation", and the fact that Harrison spelt it as two words is indicative of how little the new country name had been acknowledged by the Western media at this time.<br /><br />As with the concerts, Harrison made a point of steering clear of the politics behind the problem, his lyrics focusing instead on the human perspective. At the suggestion of Leon Russell, who had participated in the recent Ronnie Spector and Badfinger sessions, Harrison began the song with a brief verse outlining his own introduction to the Bangladesh crisis.<br /><br />The first four lines refer to Shankar's request for help, and "[in] deference to the Shankar context", musical biographer Simon Leng suggests, Harrison set the opening verse as a rock version of Indian music's traditional alap – "a slow introductory statement of the main ideas".Lyrically, the remainder of the song concentrates on the uncompromising message "We've got to relieve Bangla Desh" as thousands of refugees, particularly children, fell victim to the effects of famine and disease.<br /><br />The final verse-chorus reflects a point that former US Fund for UNICEF president Charles Lyons has identified as a perennial obstacle when addressing global issues of poverty – that the problems appear to be too big and too distant for individuals to be able to solve.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWGbgpGNx42ZydG9fjEz7Y3M4LlCgJBvN95uSveH5uPbn9LSuS_9aDnQxmI0DpvFN9JbC9fuCijrSe9KF2u4v-bIS0tM5ttDumE6DWOPIBxdDOUXBeMktfC1JF4sSYXW-_2OtYK3TAEU/s1600/script+of+bangladesh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKWGbgpGNx42ZydG9fjEz7Y3M4LlCgJBvN95uSveH5uPbn9LSuS_9aDnQxmI0DpvFN9JbC9fuCijrSe9KF2u4v-bIS0tM5ttDumE6DWOPIBxdDOUXBeMktfC1JF4sSYXW-_2OtYK3TAEU/s640/script+of+bangladesh.jpg" width="492" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original Script of the song</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The Full Lyrics are given Here: </div> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> My friend came to me<br /> With sadness in his eyes<br /> He told me that he wanted help<br /> Before his country dies<br /><br />Although I couldn't feel the pain<br /> I knew I had to try<br /> Now I'm asking all of you<br /> To help us save some lives<br /><br />Bangladesh, Bangladesh<br /> Where so many people are dying fast<br /> And it sure looks like a mess<br /> I've never seen such distress<br /><br />Now won't you lend your hand and understand?<br /> Relieve the people of Bangladesh<br /><br />Bangladesh, Bangladesh<br /> Such a great disaster, I don't understand<br /> But it sure looks like a mess<br /> I've never known such distress<br /><br />Now please don't turn away<br /> I want to hear you say<br /> Relieve the people of Bangladesh<br /> Relieve Bangladesh<br /><br />Bangladesh, Bangladesh<br /> Now it may seem so far from where we all are<br /> It's something we can't reject<br /> It's something I can't neglect<br /><br />Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed?<br /> We've got to relieve Bangladesh<br /> Relieve the people of Bangladesh<br /> We've got to relieve Bangladesh<br /> Relieve the people of Bangladesh </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> Watch Here:</div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <iframe width="320" height="266" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VPRwzB_1YEk/0.jpg" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VPRwzB_1YEk?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> <div style="text-align: left;">  </div> </div>

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Press Quotes: August 1971

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75peDn8yPrxYWy0tJDuRMDZRyYwLF_GbdVk41aNcvZuIvKGE_diF5x3L184Wcx7BoSQNCAVavRWZlS1aQTVDYWYi6RzJMkpz2KDxx0hRCo0w1N0VgUXq_iB_CIimEe0d4LhvFCMOpJYw/s1600/fpq.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75peDn8yPrxYWy0tJDuRMDZRyYwLF_GbdVk41aNcvZuIvKGE_diF5x3L184Wcx7BoSQNCAVavRWZlS1aQTVDYWYi6RzJMkpz2KDxx0hRCo0w1N0VgUXq_iB_CIimEe0d4LhvFCMOpJYw/s640/fpq.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>* International Herald Tribune, August 5, 1971 </b><br /> <br /> 14 EAST PAKISTANI DIPLOMATS QUIT IN U.S. ASK POLITICAL ASYLUM <br /> <br /> Washington, Aug. 4 (IHT) – Fourteen Pakistani diplomats, including the No. 2 United Nations delegate, resigned today to join the East Pakistan independence movement. They sought political asylum in the United States. They are all East Pakistanis. <br /> <br /> <b>* Internal Herald Tribune, August 9, 1971 </b><br /> <br /> MAJOR POWERS SEEK TO AVERT WAR IN BENGAL <br /> <br /> Washington, Aug 8 (NYT)- The Principal Western powers, the Soviet Union, China and Secretary General Thant were reported yesterday to be engaged in new diplomatic efforts to prevent the possible outbreak of fighting between India and Pakistan. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <b>* International Herald Tribune, August 10, 1971 </b><br /> <br /> PRESIDENT YAHYA ANNOUNCES AWAMI LEAGUE CHIEF TO BE TRIED BY ARMY <br /> <br /> Rawalpindi, Aug. 9 (AP)- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, President of the banned Awami League will be tried by a special military court for “waging war against Pakistan” and other offensives, a note issued by the office of President Mohammad Yahya Khan said today. <br /> <br /> The trial, which will start on Wednesday, will be held in secrecy the announcement said. <br /> <br /> <b>* The Daily Telegraph, August 10, 1971 </b><br /> <br /> INDIA AND RUSSIA SIGN 20-YEAR DEFENCE PACT <br /> <br /> Russia will back India with force if necessary in the event of a war with Pakistan under a 20 year treaty, signed in New Delhi yesterday, that puts India firmly in the Russian camp after years of non-alignment. <br /> <br /> It was signed by Mr. Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister and Mr. Singh, his Indian counterpart. The treaty of “friendship, peace and co-operation” provides for mutual defence arrangements. <br /> <br /> <b>* The Times, August 12, 1971 </b><br /> <br /> RUSSIA AND INDIA CALL FOR A POLITICAL SOLUTION IN EAST BENGAL <br /> <br /> Delhi, Aug. 11- The Soviet Union and India said tonight that they considered urgent steps were necessary to achieve a political solution to the problems of East Pakistan and that there could be no military solution. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> Their views were expressed in a joint statement issued here at the conclusion of three days of talks between Mr. Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister, and Mr. Singh, his Indian counterpart, during which a treaty of “peace, friendship and cooperation” was signed. <br /> <b><br />* International Herald Tribune, August 14-15, 1971 </b><br /> <br /> EAST PAKISTAN CRISIS TERMED ‘GREATEST CHALLENGE’ TO INDIA <br /> <br /> New Delhi, Aug. 13 (Reuters)- Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has described the situation created by the East Pakistan crisis as the nation’s “greatest challenge since independence”. <br /> <br /> “The Bangladesh situation has produced all the consequences of war without the actuality of engaging in a war”, she said in an apparent reference to the influx of millions of refugees into India and increased border clashes along the East Pakistan borders. <br /> <br /> <b>* International Herald Tribune, August 17, 1971 </b><br /> <br /> AFTER VISITING REFUGEES IN INDIA KENNEDY HITS PAKISTAN ‘GENOCIDE’ <br /> <br /> New Delhi, Aug. 16 (NYT) – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D. Mass., today denounced Pakistan’s military repression in East Pakistan as genocide and said that the secret trial of the East Pakistani leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was “an outrage of every concept of international law”. <br /> <br /> <b>* International Herald Tribune, August 17, 1971 </b><br /> <br /> BENGAL REBELS PERMITTED TO USE INDIA, ENVOY ADMITS <br /> <br /> Washington, Aug 16 (WP)- Indian Ambassador Lakshmi Kant Jha admitted yesterday that India was permitted its territory to be used as a sanctuary for Bengali rebels fighting for an independent East Pakistan.<br /> <br /> <table border="1" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody> <tr><th bgcolor="#add8e6" colspan="3" style="text-align: center;">August 1971</th> </tr> <tr class="alt-table-row"> <td width="10%">8/1/1971</td> <td width="25%">New York Times</td> <td><a href="http://www.docstrangelove.com/uploads/1971/foreign/19710801_nyt_why_they_fled_pakistan.pdf" target="_blank">Why they fled</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%">8/1/1971</td> <td width="25%">St. Louis Post-Dispatch</td> <td><a href="http://www.docstrangelove.com/uploads/1971/19710801_slpd_editorial_obligations_in_pakistan.pdf" target="_blank">EDITORIAL: Obligations in Pakistan</a></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-table-row"> <td width="10%">8/5/1971</td> <td width="25%">New York Times</td> <td><a href="http://www.docstrangelove.com/uploads/1971/foreign/19710805_nyt_14_pakistani_aides_quit_missions_in_US.pdf" target="_blank">14 Pakistani aides quit missions in US</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%">8/5/1971</td> <td width="25%">New York Times</td> <td><a href="http://www.docstrangelove.com/uploads/1971/foreign/19710805_nyt_the_ravaged_people_of_east_pakistan.pdf" target="_blank">The ravaged people of East Pakistan</a></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-table-row"> <td width="10%">8/12/1971</td> <td width="25%">Daily Telegraph</td> <td><a href="http://www.docstrangelove.com/uploads/1971/foreign/19710812_dt_pic_kennedy_visits_refugee_camp.pdf" target="_blank">PICTURE: Senator Kennedy visits refugee camp</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%">8/14/1971</td> <td width="25%">Far Eastern Economic Review</td> <td><a href="http://www.nybangla.com/Weekly%201971/August/2nd%20Week/Aug2_FEER1.jpg" rel="lightbox[12]" target="_blank">A people’s war</a></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-table-row"> <td width="10%">8/14/1971</td> <td width="25%">Far Eastern Economic Review</td> <td>Pakistan – Blow to Confidence <a href="http://www.nybangla.com/Weekly%201971/August/2nd%20Week/Aug2_FEER2_a.jpg" rel="lightbox[12]" target="_blank">Page 1,</a> <a href="http://www.nybangla.com/Weekly%201971/August/2nd%20Week/Aug2_FEER2_b.jpg" rel="lightbox[12]" target="_blank">Page 2</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%">8/17/1971</td> <td width="25%">Daily Telegraph</td> <td><a href="http://www.docstrangelove.com/uploads/1971/foreign/19710817_dt_halt_US_aid_for_yahya_says_shaken_kennedy.pdf" target="_blank">Halt US aid for Yahya, says shaken Kennedy</a></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-table-row"> <td width="10%">8/17/1971</td> <td width="25%">New York Times</td> <td><a href="http://www.docstrangelove.com/uploads/1971/foreign/19710817_nyt_kennedy_in_india_terms_pakistani_drive_genocide.pdf" target="_blank">Kennedy in India terms Pakistani drive genocide</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%">8/17/1971</td> <td width="25%">Washington Post</td> <td><a href="http://www.docstrangelove.com/uploads/1971/foreign/19710817_wp_kennedy_charges_genocide_in_Pakistan.pdf" target="_blank">Kennedy charges genocide in Pakistan</a></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-table-row"> <td width="10%">8/28/1971</td> <td width="25%">Far Eastern Economic Review</td> <td><a href="http://www.nybangla.com/Weekly%201971/August/4th%20Week/far_eastern_economic_review.htm" target="_blank">Who is my neighbor?</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10%">8/28/1971</td> <td width="25%">Los Angeles Times</td> <td><a href="http://www.nybangla.com/Weekly%201971/August/4th%20Week/08281971%281%29.pdf" target="_blank">Pakistan Arms Dispute Exaggerated, U.S. Says</a></td> </tr> <tr class="alt-table-row"> <td width="10%">8/28/1971</td> <td width="25%">Los Angeles Times</td> <td><a href="http://www.nybangla.com/Weekly%201971/August/4th%20Week/08281971%282%29.pdf" target="_blank">India Priest Pleads for Aid in Pakistan Crisis</a></td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> </div>

Press Quotes: August 1971

* International Herald Tribune, August 5, 1971 14 EAST PAKISTANI DIPLOMATS QUIT IN U.S. ASK POLITICAL ASYLUM Washington, Aug. 4 (I...

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