Abstract
Bangladeshi writer Shawkat Ali’s trilogy Dhakkhinayoner Din (The Days of Summer Solstice) insightfully captures the East Pakistan-West Pakistan entanglement from 1965 to 1969. The trilogy depicts the urban Pakistani entrepreneurs benefitting from the nation’s development discourse, as well as the activities of political radicals in rural East Pakistan. The educated middle-class woman, Rakhi, straddles the world of business and political radicalism. This article is a comparative reading of the trilogy’s fictionalisation of the Ayub Khan regime’s development agenda in postcolonial Pakistan and the confused adventurism of radical political movements. It also examines Rakhi’s liberation—inspired by the ideologue Shezan—in the backdrop of growing Bengali separatism in East Pakistan.
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