Summary on Green Helmets by jackie kabir?
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The subtitle of the book proposes it all: fourteen writers reminisce about their own, or their dear ones' experiences immediately prior to, or during, or at the end of the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Although the quality of the narratives varies from writer to writer, from being patently amateurish to highly skilled, they all are interesting. As the title suggests, these might be stories from the “edges” of the struggle, but the fringes are also a crucial part of the whole narrative. As the editors, Razia Sultana Khan and Niaz Zaman state, “The purpose of this volume is not to retell the history (of the Liberation War) but to narrate the stories of people. . . . who did not actively participate as freedom fighters, who did not cross over to India as refugees…. But, like everyone in the country, they too were affected by the war.”
Thirteen of the fourteen writers are women, while the lone male, Tanveerul Haque (“How My Wife Learnt to Ride a Horse”), relates the story of his wife's experience in escaping from Pakistan following the liberation of Bangladesh. Others have also written about their escapes via Afghanistan, with Razia Quadir's “Escape from Pakistan” being probably the best in capturing the thrill, danger, hardship, and edginess involved in carrying out these escapes from a hostile land. The editors quote her in justifying their endeavour, “It is these individual stories that truly flesh out and give emotional substance to great historical events.”
Asfa Hussain (“Free at Last”) tells the tale of her husband's and her own ordeals in the days leading up to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's momentous March 7, 1971 address, the onset of Operation Searchlight, and its aftermath. This piece captures a range of deeds that evince humanity, ingenuity, activism, and patriotism. The daughter of a prominent politician in undivided Bengal (the private Secretary of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy) as well as East Pakistan, she was actively involved with the pro-Bangladesh rallies in London, where she had gone in 1971. Her terse comment in this regard is noteworthy, “There is little documentation of the immense contribution of the London Bengalis in the struggle for Bangladesh.”
One of the editors, Razia Sultana Khan, daughter of a Bengali diplomat stationed in Turkey, tells the story (“And Never the Twain”) of her family's travails there in 1971 that evoke memories of real and fictional stories. Her father distanced himself from the Pakistan mission and returned to Dhaka via Delhi. Razia Khan, while giving an account of her parents' brief encounter with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in Turkey in 1971, East Pakistan, and was acutely aware of the plight of the Bengalis in 1971. That year, following frantic searches for places of safety as Operation Searchlight was in full swing, she admits it to be a miracle, or sheer luck, that saved her and her extended family's lives as they fled to, and took shelter in a rural area away from Dhaka.
Subsequently, she had gone to Lahore and was confronted by her kinsfolk, where her own mother and grandmother flatly refused to believe the horrifying first hand encounters the Bengalis were experiencing with the Pakistani Army. Just before returning to embattled East Pakistan, she had gained an insight into the mind of Major General Khadim Hussain Raja, who was the GOC of Dhaka during Operation Searchlight. Trying to figure out if he was like Lt. Gen. Shahibzada Yakub Ali Khan and Admiral S.M. Ahsan, who had resigned from their posts than carry out genocide against the Bengalis, she met up with his wife, and quickly got her answer. Mrs. Raja told Niaz Zaman, “Don't go back to East Pakistan. Your husband will cut off your breasts and then kill you. You are a
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