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MAROONED IN THEIR MYTHS – If the partition of 1905 were allowed to stand 0
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- March 28, 2021
Ashok Mitra | | Published 27.06.05, 12:00 AM The Bengali bhadralok and their id?es fixe are not easily parted. The current year marks a full century since the Bengal Presidency was divided by the British rulers and a new province, Eastern Bengal and Assam, was carved out. To Bengal?s then influential Hindu gentry, it was an affront and an omen. That most
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First woman detained under India’s controversial Love Jihad laws ‘forced into miscarriage’0
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- December 14, 2020
Joe Wallen Sat, December 12, 2020 Rashid & Pinky have been forced apart The first woman detained under India’s controversial new ‘Love Jihad’ laws has miscarried in custody, her family have told The Sunday Telegraph. Yesterday a distraught Muskan Jahan, 22, called her mother-in-law, from a government shelter where she is being held in the
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Coronavirus exposes the deep divide in Bangladeshi society 0
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- June 12, 2020
Hospitals are struggling to cope and the humanitarian crisis is deepening as the South Asian country emerges from lockdown By Susannah Savage and Nazmul Ahasan Dhaka 11 June 2020 A small crowd of health workers greeted Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran when his helicopter landed in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, earlier this week. The former
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