The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday February 15th, 2022
The Pakistan Question: Was my parents’ generation wrong? by Dr. Habib Siddiqui
The emergence of Bangladesh in 1971 has raised the age-old question: was Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s Two-Nation Theory wrong?
Since the late 1970s, when I came to North America to pursue graduate studies, I have been approached multiple times by quite a few of my Indian classmates and colleagues who told me during casual conversations that my parents’ generation had made a colossal mistake and that we would have all prospered better had British India not been divided, and that there was no future for Bangladesh unless she joined the Indian federation.
They are wrong on both the counts. The prosperity that Bangladesh has made is an envy to most Indians, which could not have been possible if my parents’ generation did not join the Pakistan movement.
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The Nightingale #poem by Christos Mouzeviris
“From the grove
And across the meadow
In the witching hour
Outside my window.”
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Ephemera #041 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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