Why dig it all up? My twin sister, Lila, who had to stay in the then East Bengal, died a couple of days ago, on the 29th of October, 2018. I couldnât go and stand by her death-bed, nor be a witness her cremation. She was a Bangladeshi citizen, and I was an Indian.
Why dig it all up?<br /> <br /> My twin sister, Lila, who had to stay in the then East Bengal, died a couple of days ago, on the 29th of October, 2018. I couldn’t go and stand by her death-bed, nor be a witness her cremation. She was a Bangladeshi citizen, and I was an Indian. This sums up our own story of the Partition, twins living in two countries, having two lives of enormously different quality, seldom meeting each other. Due to the apprehensions generated by the Partition, she a girl and daughter of a helpless and widowed mother, didn’t have the opportunity to study beyond...
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