IMPOSSIBLE TASK
The need is urgent and the world has so far failed to respond to a simple challenge of humanity. India lacks the means- in finance, transport and organisstion- to care for the swelling tide.of refugees forced out of East Pakistan by the brutal oppression of its distant Government. Officially order has been resored in East Bengal but if there were a shread of truth in this complacent announcement the tide of homeless and starving migrants would not have swelled by a million in less than a fortnight and India would not be faced with an impossible task of caring for an estimated four million five hundred thousand refugees.
THE AGE, 05.06.1971
Source : Bangaladesh Documents. P. 498