I received a call from a well-known journalist in Chittagong. A socially well-connected man, he had organised a huge Hindu-Buddhist procession in Chittagong the previous day.

About two decades ago, I went with him to meet centenarian Binod Bihari Chowdhury, the last living revolutionary from the famous Chittagong Armory Raid of 1930, who remained in Chittagong after the partition. Though most of his comrades fled to India he did not. He and the journalist said, “This is our homeland. Why should we leave?……”