The Baul's passing
Your second editorial entitled "The Baul's Passing" published on 14 September seemed to contain certain factual mistakes. You wrote "Education, a difficult proposition for him considering his state of penury, stopped when he was informed by the school authorities that pupils were expected to serve in the First World War. One looking for peace of the soul could not indulge in the horror of war. Karim never went back to school." Karim, the Baul Samrat, was born in 1916, during the First World War (1914-1918). He was two years old when the WWI ended. As such a suckling baby of his age was not expected to enrol in the school!
How could he then be informed by the school authorities of the then government's intention to recruit school students to join the war?
( The Daily Star takes note of the point and regrets the factual error).
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