Azeema Anhar is an English Language Instructor at ULAB and editorial assistant at Counterpoint.
The decision for Bangladesh is simply this: Either we recognize what is happening to our degree of liberty now, or we will soon read about it in the pages of history books as if it is a novel about something that was simply unavoidable.
In an exclusive interview with Counterpoint, Sam Dalrymple talks about his book Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia. He reflects on forgotten geographies and the near-misses of the past, and how hastily drawn borders still unsettle lives, loyalties and conflicts across South Asia and beyond.