Working on a book on plight of Hindu Bengali refugees from East Pakistan as perceived through Bangla literature. Learned that my father, his widowed mother, his siblings, and all others who fled to #India 1947-50, were classified as & #39;Permanent Liability& #39; by Nehru Government. 1/n https://twitter.com/KanchanGupta/status/1204818611761598464">https://twitter.com/KanchanGu...
Rare if any is the Bengali Hindu refugee who became a & #39;Permanent Liability& #39; for Government of #India -- either during the lifetime of Nehru who coined the term or in the following 7 decades. Our parents toiled night and day to rebuild their lives without any sarkari support. 2n
Unlike Punjabi/Sindhi-speaking Hindu refugees from West Pakistan, #Bengali #Hindu refugees were offered nothing by Nehru. The overcrowded, squalid, disease infested & #39;Permanent Liability Camps& #39; were and remain a blot on the conscience, if he had any, of Nehru and his flunkies. 3n
As a Bengali Hindu refugee legatee, born in #India and proud to be a citizen of this great civilisational nation, I feel anger, hurt, loathing contempt for what Nehru and his flunkies did to my people: We the disinherited were dehumanised and degraded by Nehru and his policy. 4n