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1. @guardian 15 Oct 22, p 21 @tweeter_anita @EmpirePodUK, a cold-eyed, #critical #historian would've provided the #lowdown, and six of her best, to those boorish, blingy, visiting #Punjabis about the #Sikhempire or #ZulfikarBhutto.
2. #Kashmiris and #Ladakhis, unlike mawkish #Punjabis, don't quite share that lachrymose view of #Punjabi #history or #DuleepSingh. #Lamaist #Buddhists and #Muslims chafed under #Sikhrulers. Expelled former; forbade latter #fasting/#Fridayprayers.
3. #India was in a tailspin under #Sikhs, #Marathas, #Mughals etc. and #Britishrule consolidated the peninsula unseen since the #Mauryas. #Newsflash right-on Radcliffe ranters either side: #EmpressVictoria sired #MotherIndia and #Iqbal's sarey jahān bulbuls.
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I had visited Dhaka almost 18 years ago & what amazes me today is the giant leap of Bangladesh on all development parameters -more so since Sheikh Hasina took over in 2009 for her second term -a run that continues till date and is longest phase of stability in #Bangladesh50
While in Dhaka, I came face to face with disparity, that I have not seen anywhere till date. When I visited Dhaka, Khaleda Zia was at the helm of affairs of BD and (must have been) occupying the Gana Bhaban- official residence of BD PM... military checkpoints were all over!
World trade was undergoing massive changes and Bangladesh, as a nascent and upcoming centre of readymade garment trade, was facing a high degree of uncertainty. Every hotel we went to, I saw Chinese (u can identify them by the noise they make at their respective tables)...
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