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Why has Pakistani academia largely ignored the events of East Pakistan?

The season of discontent (This article is part of our special series Unmasking Southasia: The pandemic issue. You can read the editorial note to the series here.) The last public protest I attended was on 8 March 2020. Two weeks later, the world changed. It was already changing, of course – had already changed, perhaps – but we didn’t know yet how much or for how long. That day, the gardens surrounding Karachi’s Frere Hall heaved with humans, mostly women; in a satisfying inversion of t...