Calcutta Diary


Calcutta Diary A M CALL it a waiting of quality. One meets hundreds of young boys and girls who were supposed to sit for the university's final examinations in 1972. It is, the calendar says, July 1973, but the 1972 examinations are yet to take place. With luck, the university may be able to organise the ritual toward the whining end of the year; the results, again with luck, may be announced some time around the middle of 1974. This has gone on, year after year, with each year's examinations; and it will, bless you, continue to go on. There is, in consequence, a certain elongation of the allegedly academic process, to which each of the parties concerned