Articles by Farrukh Dhondy

LONDON No One to Talk to Farrukh Dhondy MAUDLING says he wants to talk about Ireland, but the right people don't seem to be willing to talk to him. The war in Northern Ireland progresses on Several fronts. Life in Belfast and Londonderry doesn't quite go on as normal, the housewife out shopping is liable to return with fumes of British Army CS gas burning her eyes. Public buildings, large private business offices and banks have been gutted by bombs. Confrontations between soldiers and Catholic youths throwing stones are liable to break out at most times of the day, anywhere. The occasional sniper's bullet kills a soldier, the army regularly .shoots civilians by mistake and has riots on its hands. The British and Stormont governments think, now and then, that they know who the leaders of the armed conflict are and make armed raids on Catholic neighbourhoods to arrest and intern them. The Provisional IRA which claims responsibility for the attacks on the occupying army and on business premises, refuses to talk till internment ends. Needless to say, Maudling can't publicly offer to make deals with them.

LONDON BRITAIN'S entry into the European Common Market is a dead certainty, in spite of the parliamentary games played to give its people the conviction that everything is done in their name and with their fingers dipped in the bowl of decision. At the Labour Party conference, the Trades Union representatives called upon to hold the disintegrating party together said some strong words about Roy Jenkins and the other pro-marketeers in their party. Some went so far as to suggest their expulsion. 'Smoothy Chops' Roy

September 11, 1971 ed in better understanding over problems of instability that the situation in East Pakistan was creating for the whole regjon. They also enabled Indonesia to understand the reasons for India signing a Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Co-operation with the Soviet Union.


agreed to forgive each other, while seeking to find out what is common between them. China receives a good Press in Yugoslavia and Belgrade television has been instrumental in parading China's achievements. Films shot in China by Yugoslavs have been sold to Western agencies.

March 6, 1971 Slump of a Growth Project (From a Special Correspondent) BHOPAL was the venue of a seminar on Economic Growth since Independence, organised by the Indian Association for Research in National Income and Wealth from February 12 to 14, 1971. The Association decided in 1964 to undertake a research project on India's economic growth, enlisting the co-operation of a number of scholars possessing specialised knowledge of this field. However, for various reasons, the growth project languished or progressed limpingly. The authorship of the different sections of the project had to be reallocated from time to time since some of those who had initially undertaken to write different sections could not devote time for their assignments. Even at the, time of the seminar, it was evident that much progress had not taken place. One objective of the seminar was thus to activate the interest of the experts in this field to participate more fully towards the completion of the project. Whether this objective will be attained, time alone can show.