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There were also non-Muslims in East Bengal who had to stay back—many didn’t want to leave their ancestral place. Many didn't have the material support to migrate with their family. Partition literature hardly talks about them.
Perhaps the starkest image of the Partition, which created the two independent states of India and Pakistan in 1947, is that of the train massacres.
For a second time in a month, Dhaka has sought more time to notify the US whether it would consent to the Leahy law, which was invoked at the beginning of the new year.
The introduction, by Sohana Manzoor, to the anthology ‘Our Many Longings: Contemporary Short Fiction from Bangladesh’.