Today's newsletter won't be finished before a meeting at 12, but I enjoy having more time to let my readings sink in. I've now listened to a few histories of Bangladesh critical for the current conflict, and I'm mostly fascinated by the scramble for narrative control from the very start of the state in 1971. No bid to be seen as a distinct state is ever politically clean, but this is a country with *huge* taboos around talking about their liberation war.

(More later, but we're a messy species!)