Saima Begum on Bangladesh’s birangona women: Southasia Review of Books podcast #32 A conversation with the British-Bangladeshi writer on her debut novel, ‘The First Jasmines’, and the untold stories of women who survived the violence of the 1971 Liberation War:…

“This is not just a story about #WestPakistan and #EastPakistan. This is the story of many wars where people are so easily and so devastatingly able to despise their own brothers and be violent towards them.”

Saima Begum on ‘The First Jasmines’:

Book Review- From Citizens to Traitors: Bengali Internment in Pakistan, 1971-74 - Stratheia Ilyas Chattha's new book unveils Pakistan's internment of Bengalis post-1971—a haunting account of betrayal and state violence.

Chattha’s book is a moral reckoning: when citizenship becomes conditional, betrayal is manufactured—and justice, permanently deferred.
#WestPakistan #FromCitizenstoTraitors #BengaliInternment
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Book Review- From Citizens to Traitors: Bengali Internment in Pakistan, 1971-74 - Stratheia Ilyas Chattha's new book unveils Pakistan's internment of Bengalis post-1971—a haunting account of betrayal and state violence.

Denied by Pakistan and neglected by Bangladesh, these ghost citizens expose the dark fiction of modern nationhood.
#History #PakistanBangladesh #WestPakistan
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It acknowledges the occasion as a permanent remembrance of the #sacrifices and #courage shown by the soldiers who bore witness to this historic event. The war was triggered by the #economic & #political #marginalisation of #EastPakistan by #WestPakistan.