The ISPaD Project

Specialties

This Project attempts to estimate the number of casualties and refugees in order to answer this question. It is worth mentioning that the ethnic cleansing of non-​Muslims, attack on places of worship (mandirs, churches, and temples), homes and livelihood, and confiscation of their homesteads through the Enemy Property Act by declaring non-​Muslims as Enemies of State, continued unabated since the days of Noakhali Danga pogrom. Besides ensuring history is not simply glossed over in textbooks, ISPaD has given these facts a personal aspect by performing and recording interviews of protectors, refugees, and survivors of ’47 & ’71 Indian Partition. The building that houses an ISPaD museum & office also has space enough for meetings and the monthly special events ISPaD has been hosting — from tax seminars, to cooking lessons, to music or dance performances to dialogue/​discourse — always lead by an expert on“the month’s topic”.

History

Established in 2009.

In Bengal, as in much of the Indian Subcontinent, there is a taboo in discussing the plight of minorities and researching the whereabouts of the missing population of minorities. The ISPaD Project founders, Drs, Sachi and Shefali Dastidar, decided to attempt to «go against the grain» in the engendering discourse contrary to that taboo and now The ISPaD Project tries to estimate the status of minorities in Bangladesh — the East Bengal of the erstwhile Bengal Province of British-​ruled-​India AND to answer the all too frequently asked question: Where have my people gone?

Meet the Manager

Shuvo D.

Manager

Shuvo is, in a sense, simply following the path that his parents, as the co-​founders and Trustees as well as active members of the Board of Directors, cleared for him as he serves as Project Coordinator. As The ISPaD Project has grown, it has done so simultaneously with with the global growth in utilization of social media to facilitate the purposes of NGO’s. Shuvo’s knowledge of the events of Partition has aroused his passion for the topic and simultaneously, his position has grown to encompass so much more-​as a knowledge and utilization of contemporary social media to further your cause will do.