Writers of both fiction and non-fiction have come under increasing pressure and censorship across South Asia. To discuss these issues, the fifth ULAB Lit Salon brings together a diverse group of experts drawn from policy and its practice, publishing, and media.
“Free democracy. Only then will society heal itself,” said economist and educationist Akbar Ali Khan, as he read from Abul Mansur Ahmad’s political memoir “Amar Dekha Rajneetir Ponchash Bochhor”, at an event held at Dhaka University’s Faculty of Social Sciences yesterday.
There were also non-Muslims in East Bengal who had to stay back many didn’t want to leave their ancestral place. Many didn't have the material support to migrate with their family. Partition literature hardly talks about them.
The event will discuss the Bengal Partition of 1905, a second Partition of Bengal and the Indian subcontinent in 1947 and the birth of Bangladesh in 1971. The Salon will showcase aspects of these partitions, living histories that bind India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.