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Hi sayyan,
 here it is, a sad saga of our mindscape's homeland:

   **HISTORY SANS GEOGRAPHY**

 The Jews were the people who made a unique contribution to history
by becoming almost isotropic in human history without having a home,
promised often but not materialized till the middle of this century.
We, Syhlletis - in a strange paradox of ethnic nomenclature is still known
by that prefixed geography which no longer owns us  nor we can own it in
concreteness. We are a strange noveau race - sharing some of the dilemmas
of Jews in a smaller sphere but have some strking peculiarities, compared
only to the ethnic complexities faced by Slavs, Bohemians (now Czech),
Phonecians, Austrians. It will be a wonderful cross examination and cross
analysis, destinned to be taken up by one of our gifted brethern and the
work will show the hysteric aspect of history as well as its madness - but
"though its madness, there is a method in it" and that inherent,
subterrenanean unity that is often missed by specialists will illuminate
our historical tragedy as well its heirloom.

 Dateline 1947:

 Sylletis - around 10 million people speaking a dialect that is a
"coarse" version of Bengali, scattered in a district of Pakistan (now
Bangladesh) called Syllet - in more chaste version - Srihatta scattered
around in the plains and hills of the tropically  warm country in the
eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.
 Freedom and after. Riots. And slowly started the exodus -
sylletis faced the weight of the wheel of history for the first time -
neighbours emerged suddenly very monolithic, shedding the daily
trivialities of chores, they became the monstrous instrument of history,
redefining the geography and population and a chain of fleeing people
slowly started nearing the India-Pakistan international border, towards
India, or rather that part of India which didnt feature very prominently
in the "cakecutting" ceremony that took place in Delhi, Karachi and
Calcutta. The makers of history, were busy cutting that "freedom-cake",
ornated by the map of the subcontinent on the top, and people became
numbers, landscape became square miles, homes became a question-mark in
historical memorandum and the cries of people sublimated into the smell of
the freshly printed referendum paper of the independent country.
Sylletis tasted a prelude of historical abstraction - they were in the
verge of what Austrians faced - *statenloss*, a community without a state
except a fast vanishing concrete piece of land, vanishing slowly into the
dimness of mental landscape and with it, a rootlessness - a faith in the
elusive innocence of future and Future lied towards a enthusism - free
India.

 Dateline 1971:
 Another country is born. A country which is also very strange in
the content of mindscape - a geography that constantly tries to reconcile
its history, the abstraction of history at its most dizzying height where
gurreila warriors recited poetry of the poet of another country (Jibananda
Das), a wonderful subcontinental drift ensued - a three body problem -
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and as historical forces accelerate, today is
forgotten and there looms a huge past and a rusing Future (innocently
irresponsible, just because it hadnt come so far) where people(the people
we know, we know what had in their small, rusty tin trunk, in the faded
black and white daggerotypes, benarasi silk for the next daughter's
wedding, scrolls of papers which once empowered them to their land, but
are mere scrolls, a perfect abstraction of space which does belong but in
another time-space relative co-ordinate) our
ancestors, our mothers, our fathers gets guided not by the daily wisdom
but the urgency of historical future and Future belonged nowhere, not in
any land for there were no promised land even.

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