Pabitra Sarkar

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Pabitra Sarkar is ex-Vice Chancellor of Rabindra-Bharati University, India. He’s renowned as an expert of Bangla language, grammar and spelling in Bangladesh and Poshchim Banga. His publications include Bangla Banan Samskar: Samasya O Sambhabana (1987); Chomsky, Byakaran O Bangla Banan(2013).

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The Partition, A Deeply Personal Account

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 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.

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