“The silent suffering — Stories of Hindus in Bangladesh”, Swarajyamag, December 3, 2023:
“The house in Bashudebpur, in Bangladesh’s Rajshahi district, where my father was born, still stands.
Shrouded in the omen that “there dwells a god,” no one dares tear it down for fear of death or affliction in the family.
In the past few years, as Deep Halder and Avishek Biswas have travelled extensively to Bangladesh to chronicle the fate of the Hindu in the country, I’ve thought often of the house where Baba was born.
And I think of that fateful day when my prescient grandfather sold the property to settle across the river, in Jangipur, Murshidabad. But that wasn’t the fate of authors Halder and Biswas….”
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