From the Times:
Every morning at 11am, a group of schoolchildren gather in a slum in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, to sing not one national anthem, but two.
First, the students at the Non-Local Surovi School raise their shrill voices in homage to Bangladesh, then to Pakistan. Yet they are citizens of neither country: they are among 250,000 Urdu-speakers who were disenfranchised when Bangladesh won its independence from Pakistan in 1971.
For 37 years now, the Muslim community which migrated here at the partition of British India in 1947 has existed in legal limbo and squalor in camps around Bangladesh. Today, however, its members will vote for the first time in parliamentary elections after a court decision that finally recognised their right to Bangladeshi citizenship.
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