It’s astonishing how swiftly history fades—quicker than ink on wet paper, more transient than promises made before elections. Days after a mural commemorating the Liberation War of Bangladesh was veiled in Lalmonirhat district, it was demolished at the behest of local authorities. On the very day that marks the hard-won…


Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.