And, yes, there are the many, not to say many-sided, narratives of 1971 that individuals who have written on the Bangladesh war have had to deal with. Not many have been able to overcome their own prejudices in setting forth their perspectives on the war. Zakaria notes these gaps, even as she attempts to understand the genesis of a war in her own quest for the truth. For Zakaria, the 1971 narrative is one of facing up to interpretations of a war that change through the crossing of frontiers. The war is presented as an India-Pakistan war, conveniently ignoring the larger truth of the conflict being fundamentally a Bengali guerrilla struggle for liberation.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 08, 2020 13:52 UTC