Of 'Paki-bashing' in UK and the 2024 'Uprising' which Swept Bangladesh

Yes, the king of the road Drives down the middle Does he have a licence? That remains a riddle His beti is in an English medium School in a town called Puri She told him the highway he rides Was made by Sher Shah Suri Such is our generation gap... I’ve told her she can have what's mine She says she doesn’t want a truck -- Never cast pearls before swine?

- Marlowe, by Bachchoo

Two Bangladeshi memorial occasions last week to which I was invited as a platform panellist... Gentle reader, you may well ask, if you speak French -- “pour the hell quoi?” Or “what the f--aintest have you got to do with Bangladesh?” Let me count the ways. In the last few decades, the Dacca Litt Society has invited me on several occasions to speak -- and then on three occasions for a few weeks at a time, I have conducted screenplay writing workshops for the Dacca Film Society.

I must have made some impression on these sojourns and because one of the London occasions, hosted by British MP Apsana Begum, was showing a documentary about the 2024 uprising in Bangladesh and clips from another film about the subject, I was considered appropriate for the Q and A which followed.