it's strange how little consciousness of the 1971 genocide in Bangladesh there is in the West, given how awful it was. a combination of racism and Cold War alliances with Pakistan, I suppose, but you'd think that there would have been some breakthrough book of the "Rape of Nanking" scale by now
Maybe the first place I read about it was in Midnight’s Children. Possibly the only place too, in fiction certainly. Never stumbled across the topic being covered fully or even just mentioned anywhere else. If you don’t somehow know already and actively look into it further you’d never know.
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Me too. Was so confused by the sudden mass death. I was like, "Wait, are we back to the partition again?"
