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December 16 passed silently as if nothing had happened that day in 1971. I asked a bunch of students if they knew the earlier name of Bangladesh. They expressed their ignorance.Fantastic education: certainly, those who are responsible for this achievement must have worked very hard. Jonathan Swift would have described us as ‘Lilliputians’.Sikander Aqeel AnsariIslamabad

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