Word: bengalis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pakistan was disintegrating. The Bengali-dominated East, separated by 1,000 miles of India from the less populous but long-dominant West, was moving toward autonomy, if not outright independence. Civil war loomed. The East's 75 million people had been under martial law since 1969. Now Pakistani President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan's troops, most of them Punjabis from the West who were offended by the East's separatist demands, went on a murderous rampage. Bengali refugees began streaming into India, eventually numbering some 8 million. India's Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, protesting that...
...from Brixton is the East End's Brick Lane, where between 7,000 and 25,000 Bengalis - no one knows the exact number - work in garment industry sweatshops. A timorous, often illiterate people, for the past two years they have been subjected to vicious beatings and murders by white gangs. Listening to the sound of prayer coming from the local mosque, Gulam Mustafa, a leather goods manufacturer and local Bengali leader, says he has appealed repeatedly to the Home Office to help halt the attacks. The Bengalis' cause was taken up last year by the Anti-Nazi League...
That Bhutto is now a part of history is hard to accept. As a Bengali, my shock at his execution was in marked contrast to my feeling toward him during the Bangladesh struggle. Time seems to heal wounds after...
Bhaktivedanta Swami, a former Bengali businessman and a follower of Krishna since 1933, established the first ISKCON center in a small storefront in New York 12 years ago. He died last November, leaving over 6000 full time ministers and students of Krishna Consciousness. According to Garuda, the ISKCON founder did not die but merely appeared in a physical form, then disappeared. "After all the body does not determine life, life determines the body," Garuda says...
...year is a little steep--and that means washing dishes in the Union as a part-time job, something which he says he would have once found "degrading." While expressing no anger at Americans, he notes evenly that "what people throw away in a meal here a whole Bengali family could survive on for a week." He says he feels bad that he doesn't really identify with his people and their traditions and that being in America has done this to him--he wants to learn, and regrets that he has been into the Bengali countryside so little. Rahman...