When the Liberation War of 1971 established a new Bangla-speaking country, Ms. Smith’s acquaintances began to ask her why she was still there. She would say, “I’m Bengali. Where am I supposed to go?”
Author: Anushah Hossain
Anushah is a historian of internet infrastructure. She completed her PhD in Energy and Resources at UC Berkeley and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University's Digital Civil Society Lab.