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PARTITION: Tape 69
TAPE 69
Side B
Shaukat OSMAN - 80/81; perhaps Bangladesh's best-known novelist
and short story writer; outspoken, impish; lives very modestly in
a Elat; gave me a signed copy of his Penguin collection of short
stories, and a signed limerick with translation (reflecting ill on
Pakistan); has a reputation as a maverick and sometimes difficult
interviewee, but was charming and engaging; had spent time in
Leeds - Dhaka, 21 April 1997
258 - [Direct Action Day] 'I have been in the thick of it ...
I do not want to recall those days ... '
268 - 'I was in a M area so naturally, I was safe, but I have
seen how n'bours and others have been killed ... '
315 - [re ind] 'the heart remained benumbed and silent, as it
is today'
326 - 'religion cannot be the unavoidable ingredient of
nationality'
347 - 'of course, we are prisoner of the past, prisoner of
partition, prisoner of the irrationality which led us |
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