Lepcha
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For those rose-tinted about Bangladesh and downplay its virulent Islamism and hatred for India. 'All our poems were in Bengali', Asif said. We are Bengali. See how our leader, Mujibur Rahman, has been carried off to a prison in West Pakistan. What will you say then? In two to three weeks there are to be elections. Maybe something will come out of them, maybe not. We can only hope. And the cyclone? 'Ah, the cyclone, the cyclone' Asif said. "that is only one more entry in the long list. How have the West Pakistanis helped us? All the other nations offer assistance, even India, but the West Pakistanis sit still. They hoped perhaps for a bigger cyclone, which would wipe us all out'. Everyone present laughed bitterly. If this represented fairly widespread opinion on the country, perhaps India would help. At least, I mentioned this possibility, which was received with more bitter mirth. 'You are not a Hindu nor an Indian', Asif said, 'so we can speak frankly to you. All of us hate the West Pakistanis, yes, but to tell you the truth, we hate the Hindus even more'. I heard repeatitions of this throughout my stay in East Pakistan ~ Never at Home, Dom Moraes The chronicle is from 1971 when India was aiding Bangladesh liberation.




A love that waited 7 years ended in 1 month: Army major returns home draped in Tricolour. — Major Hamza Arif RIP. Two Majors from the tiny Bohra community have come back draped in Tricolour in recent times. In this moment of grief, the heartening indicator is Bohras are joining the armed forces, away from what they traditionally did, largely business or professional streams. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jodhpur/a…














