Dhaka, Sept. 13 -- A hundred and eight years the annulment of the first partition of Bengal in 1911, it is time to reflect on old dreams and equally old nightmares. For nothing can be more agonizing than the division of history through a vivisection of heritage. In October 1905, when Bengal was partitioned, to create out of the original land a new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, there were surely the reasons why those who inhabited the new province cheered themselves. They were not to be part of the Bengal backwater any more. With poverty being what had till then seemed to be a permanent fixture in life, it was assumed that the Muslim Bengali would have a rebirth, a renaissance as it were, and claim for himself a proper place under ...