Dhaka, Dec. 16 -- The passage of time is truly strange. Human beings create history, and then again alter the course of living history.

Much like a river changes its bends, history too changes direction. People try to shape history with hope and belief, but sometimes-like sculptors trying to create Shiva and ending up with a monkey-things go terribly wrong.

In truth, when human beings attempt to turn their abstract thoughts and perceptions into reality and discover that reality does not match what they had imagined, their dreams shatter. And then-what is left to do?

After a long struggle, in 1947 we obtained a moth-eaten Pakistan. And in 1971, after crossing a river of blood, when we reached the shores of liberation and the Pakistani a...