What Prompted You to Do This?

When i was a student in oxford, pakistan essentially had two geographically separate parts on different sides of india. A refugee started fleeing across the border from what was then east into india. And that led me to start thinking about one of my obligations. It's not enough to just throw a few coins in a tin when it's rattled under your nose,. That we ought to be makinga more substantial commitment. My wife and i started giving ten per cent of what we earnt to oxfam, both for the crisis in east pakiston, which was eventually resolved by the indian army invading east pakistani. But i was aware that there were millions of people...