Mukti

<p>Mukti: Free to Be Born Again is a history-based fictionalized non-fiction created on four decades of fieldwork in Muslim-majority Bangladesh and Hindu-majority India. Many strands of real-life drama have been weaved together with 1947 Hindu-Muslim Secular-Islamic and 1971 Islamic-Secular ruling minority vs. oppressed-majority partitions of India Pakistan and Bangladesh. Because of precarious plight individuals and villages names have been fictionalized. The story focuses on transformation of a society by the oppressor oppressed Islam Hinduism and Leftism of elites who chose not to live in Muslim-majority homeland. The story ties Indian and Bengali history views of Muslims and Hindus role of Bangladeshi Hindu refugee elites in India pogroms devastation of minority communities role of anti-Hindu Islamism and anti-tradition Communism life of poor oppressed-caste Hindus left behind in Muslim-majority Bangladesh and more. Dastidar is the first to break a taboo by writing in 1989 about the poor oppressed Hindu Minority left behind by the Hindu-refugee elites.</p><p><br></p><p>Mukti is a commonly-used term in Hindu-Buddhist philosophies meaning freedom from rebirth and liberation from oppression.</p>