Title PARTITION: Tape 76 Writer 255MODEM Mod Date & Time St 255MODEM Apr 25 17:13 R* TAPE 76 Side B Annada Sankar RAY distinguished Bengali man of letters, now extremely aged; wrote the famous poesm "why scold the child for breaking the bottle of oil, when the adults have broken the nation" - interviewed in his flaT in Calcutta, 26 April 1997 5 - 'my name is ASR, I'm a Bengali author ... I'm 93 years old' 17 - 'my little daughter was playing with a bottle of hair oil; she broke it and I got furious ... I just sat down and wrote a poem in which I took to task the leaders of my country for breaking up Bengal as well as India' 25 - 'it was complete within half an hour; I did not know at all it wd be so famous, act it has caught the imagination of people on both sides of the frontier ... both of Hs and Ms' 38 - [re partn] 'I was in two minds at that time ... the Brit are leaving I for good, and if they handed over the whole of Bengal to the Ms, Hindu interests are really in danger ... our lives will be in danger and our jobs will be in danger' 63 - 'for millions of Hindus and thousands of Ms, these people are rootless; they are living in I but have no roots here ...' 90 - re Gt Cal Killing (then a judge in Mymensingh) 105 - still hope that partition cd be avoided even after Cal killing; then came Noakhali; 'even then I was opp'd to partn ... but then the riots took place in Bihar, Ms were massacred there ... then the ML began to say, no one can stop Pakistan' 126 - poem written: 'it was in June 1947' 155 - [polns] 'they were worse than my little child; they did not know what they were doing ... like little children they broke it'