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A journey after the Bangladesh War

Rohit Chawla | 15 Mar, 2018

Saraswati Burman walked to India from Bangladesh with two infants strapped on her back during the Bangladesh War. That night, three of her other children got left behind. Today the seventy-five-year-old lives in Gurgaon with a Bengali family. Even after all these years in India, she speaks only one language.

Bangladesh Bengali Gurgaon language migrant