A Passing Face
At Home
A journey after the Bangladesh War
Rohit Chawla
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.
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