[vinnomot] Historic Bangladesh papers 'lost'

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

[vinnomot] Historic Bangladesh papers 'lost'

I am very frustrated as a young Historian after knowing that the Cabinet Secretary Ali Imam Majumder told an English daily newspaper that officials in the cabinet division could not find the original versions of the hand-written independence proclamations. He said "We only had photocopies, which we handed over to the national archives." He told the newspaper that he did not know how the originals had gone missing. Bangladesh's first Cabinet Secretary, HT Iman, told the same daily newspaper that the original proclamation of independence had definitely been placed in government custody. He said that it was "really unfortunate" for the nation that it and other promulgations had now disappeared.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the old or new is never on the news.

Gopal Sengupta

Canada

gopalsengupta@aol.com

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