An Unfinished Search: One Lineage in One Village through Three Nations

Three generations of a family search for their identity as their village changes its identity from being Indian to being Pakistani to being Bangladeshi.Born out of wedlock in the village of Hazratkandi Anjaan’s tale traces the desperate search of three generations of Hazratkandis for their identity which they believe lies buried in the martyr’s graves of Malegarh in Assam’s Karimganj district.Asman Hazratkandi the last in his line remains in the village where he was born while the village itself is shoved from India first to Pakistan and then to Bangladesh.Asman Hazratkandi belonged nowhere. In life no land accepted him. In death he lay in the no man’s land at the Indo-Bangladesh international border leaving behind an unfinished search.