Leading Urdu scholar Professor Gopi Chand Narang passed away on Wednesday at Charlotte in North Carolina after a brief illness, his son said. He was 91 and is survived by his wife, Manorma Narang, and his sons Arun Narang and Tarun Narang, and .
Literature in Bangladesh about the war is in the nature of memorials to 1971, a thread between the dead and the living, a reminder of the absent as having once been, a mark of the present, of rupture and continuity.