Op-ed today (December 16, 2013) in THE NEWS : Dec 16 is the anniversary of the day ‘East Pakistan’ became ‘Bangladesh. OpEd on what we remember of this and what we have forgotten, including Cyclone Bhola which devastated the then East Pakistan right before the 1970 elections and became a showcase that signified the callousness of the West towards the East. Full Text here: bit.ly/1b99knj Excerpt: December 16 is a day of too many unstitched wounds, of too much unshared agony, of too many unspoken words, of too much unrepented hurt… The politics of disenfranchisement, of distress, of derision, of disparagement, of disdain can only divide society. And the hurt of division knows few cures. It feeds on its own agony. It compounds over time. And ultimately it blows back in ways more gruesome and ghastly than any that even nature can conjure up in all its fury.
Posted on: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 05:10:43 +0000
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