Dhaka, March 15 -- For nearly fifty years we have been tracing the history of seventy one. Those of us past seventy-one feel like there were two histories. One, what happened in seventy one. Two, what people think and say about what happened in 1971 now.

People want to know the popular and the political. History has become a substitute for the cinema and TV web series. Writers fictionalize and academics do the same trying to serve the current politics of their own.

So people do not want to know what happened that year. They have already been told what happened and they only believe that. Since politicians use it and change the historical cake with each regime change, public interest in 1971 is almost zero.

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