Book Review Title: Being Hindu in Bangladesh Authors: Deep Halder & Avishek Biswas Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2023 Pages: 178 S heikh Hasina has abandoned her country after having been its longest-serving Prime Minister. She was the country’s PM for more than 20 years. In fact, she was the world’s longest-serving female Head of Government in history. Yet she had to save herself by running away from her own country. She has sought temporary asylum in India. Sheikh Hasina tried to foster secularism in her country. It couldn’t ever have been an easy task given the presence of Islamic militancy all around. Secularism longed to get rooted in that soil right from the time of her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman who declared that: “This is not the land of Muslims. This is not the land of Hindus. This is everybody’s land.” Mujibur Rahman wanted Bangladesh to be everybody’s land. He even went to the extent of forgiving his enemies and allowing them to return from Pakistan t...
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