The Search

A quarter-century after the war that was meant to bring liberation to Bangaldesh, Mukti, a young researcher, comes into Mariamƒ??s life, armed with a set of questions that have no easy answers. How did Mariam, and women like her ƒ?? Biranganas, the raped women, touted as the new nationƒ??s ƒ??honourƒ?? but treated quite otherwise by their families and society ƒ?? survive the war? Why did Mariam send her young brother away but stay on herself in Dhaka as the city became increasingly unsafe? How did the Pakistani army deal with the women they found in homes, in offices, in colleges? Did the Muktijoddhas, the freedom fighters, protect ƒ??theirƒ?? women?