BENGAL'S HINDU HOLOCAUST

Bengal's Hindu Holocaust: India's Partition and its Aftermath by Sachi G Dastidar is a book that rakes up a topic which has virtually been a taboo--the issue of vanishing Hindus from Bangladesh and their current situation in India's West Bengal and surrounding regions.In a matter of only a few decades more than three million Hindus died and nearly 49 million went missing. Their families face persecution on a daily basis in Bangladesh while there are other issues like demographic change in West Bengal parts of Assam and other North-Eastern states. Men are harassed and killed their property is confiscated thanks to Enemy Property Act and women are kidnapped/ raped leaving the hapless Hindu community ask the question: Aamago lokera jai koi (Where do my people go)?. The research for this was painstaking and painful for the author as the authorities remained in near complete denial that a systematic persecution of the Hindu community was and remains virtually a daily affair.