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title: 'Chitra Katha photo poster No. 19: Pakistani student at Oregon (Bengali, Dacca)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-19-bengali-dacca-1957/
description: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca following Pakistani student Qazi Abdul Alim, shown at the University of Oregon on an Asia Foundation
section: Collection
---

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[![Chitra Katha photo poster No. 19: Pakistani student at Oregon, 1957 US poster: A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-19-bengali-dacca-1957.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/chitra-katha-photo-poster-19-bengali-dacca-1957.jpg)

# Chitra Katha photo poster No. 19: Pakistani student at Oregon (Bengali, Dacca)

A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca following Pakistani student Qazi Abdul Alim, shown at the University of Oregon on an Asia Foundation scholarship studying physical education. Photographs show him in a cafeteria, library, gymnasium, ice-skating, playing table tennis, basketball and billiards with American students and staff. The tell is plain-folks: everyday campus scenes and a named individual stand in for the exchange-study programme.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/)

## Text on the object

Original (Bengali) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
চিত্র কথা

[Bengali photo captions not transcribed in full]

[TRUTH] SHALL MAKE YOU FREE (partly visible English inscription on a building in a photograph)

Issue No. 19 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran.
Editor's Note :-Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Chitra Katha (Pictorial Story)

[Photo captions in Bengali on the page: Qazi Abdul Alim, a Pakistani student, studying physical education at the University of Oregon under an Asia Foundation scholarship; shown at the cafeteria, library, gymnasium, skating, table tennis, basketball and billiards. A doorway inscription is translated as 'Truth will make you free'.]

Issue No. 19 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran.
Editor's Note :-Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
```

Only the masthead, headline and printed imprint lines are transcribed; the small Bengali photo captions and body columns are not transcribed in full.

[← Northwest Region of the U.S. poster (Indonesian, distributed in Djakarta)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/northwest-region-of-the-us-poster-indonesian-1957/) [Chitra Katha photo poster No. 20: Pakistani students in the U.S. (Bengali, Dacca) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/chitra-katha-photo-poster-20-bengali-dacca-1957/)

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