Editor,
Revisiting the past creates a pathway towards understanding the pattern to which solutions can be carved enabling better management and security, the Dhaka Tribune in its article published on 27th December, 2019, ‘Remembering the ‘Phantoms of Chittagong’ describes Operation Eagle, in which R&AW and the Special Frontier Force launched an audacious campaign against the Pakistan Army, gaining superiority, an operation which has no official record but it seems like the narratives in Bangladesh is changing towards their neighbour.
Media reports last year indicate that the interim government instructed the removal of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s image from their Taka, and newly introduced textbooks stated that Ziaur Rahman declared the country’s independence in 1971. If all this is true, the Bangladesh story is mind boggling. Is Bangladesh going the India way? Al Jazeera in its report on 19 February 2024, ‘How RSS textbooks are reshaping Indian history and science under Modi’ are clear signs of fascism slowly penetrating into the edifice of democracy. Bleeding the narratives would give the enemy the edge, as foreign powers are trying to lure this springboard of the east for their own benefits. Under Muhammad Yunus, the survivability of this country is through diplomatic manoeuvres and thoughtful planning and sharing crucial information with their neighbours would give it a rightful meaning.
A book to supplement as to why Northeast India is at its crucial point and going back to history will lie the answers would be Sanjoy Hazarika’s Strangers of the Mist.
Yours etc.,
Christopher Gatphoh,
Laitkor Rngi, Shillong
