How The Urdu Language And Literature Slipped Into Darkness In Bangladesh by Shah Tazrian Ashrafi

Close to my neighborhood is the Geneva Camp, where a huge chunk of people from the Urdu-speaking community (in the common Bangladeshi vocabulary, they’re referred to as ‘Bihari’) reside. The cramped, squalid quarters of the camp accommodate more than 40,000 people.  After Bangladesh’s independence in 1971, more than a million Urdu-speaking people were stranded in […]