Reading Ruler Markings

Ironic turn

Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War By Sarmila Bose , Hachette, Rs 1,882

All freedom movements give rise to myths and legends, tales of unalloyed heroism and sacrifice on the one side and unqualified injustice on the other. It falls on the historian to separate fact from fantasy. Sarmila Bose has attempted to undertake this task in the case of the Bangladesh War of 1971.

Focusing on some select events, Bose interviewed a number of participants and eyewitnesses on both sides. She offers a lively narrative of these interviews, accompanied by vivid pen portraits of the interviewees. These accounts might have been used to arrive at a more nuanced chronicle of the events in question than those in current circulation. Bose, however, has a larger ambition. She offers nothing less than a revisionist history of the Bangladesh liberation struggle based on her interviews — and fails to carry conviction.

According to Bose, the "allegations" of exploitation by the West Pakistan and the genocide charges in 1971 are explained by the culture of a "victim culture" by the Bangladeshis. She cites GW Chaudhury, a Bengali who has held high office under Yahya, in this regard - "the Bengalis are noted for a negative and destructive, rather than working hard and constructive programs, they also have a tendency great to put the blame on others. "

Bose argues that the statistical evidence about per capita incomes and the provincial origin of senior military and civilian officers only shows disparity, but not necessarily discrimination, between the two wings of pre-1971 Pakistan. She closes her eyes to the discrimination inherent in the decision to declare Urdu as the sole national language in the early days of Pakistan, ignoring the claims of the Bengali-speaking majority, or the denial of an effective voice to the more populous province under military regimes run by generals hailing exclusively from West Pakistan.

Bose views the "demonization" of Yahya Khan as "supremely ironic." She throws like a benevolent king, "sensitive to the concerns of Bengal." "The picture that emerges from the material available is a new low against-intuitive," she writes, "in that it is the military ruler, General Yahya Khan, who seems to have made considerable efforts to put politicians, Bhutto and Mujib, to the negotiating table to reach a way to transfer power to the new assembly and a government elected.” “Yahya found himself squeezed between the uncompromising attitudes and soaring ambitions of both political leaders each of whom suspected him of giving too much away to the other.

Reading a Ruler: Units of Measurement on a Ruler – millimeters and ...

You learn to use a ruler back in your school days when you would use to draw a variety of margins or lines. You might also learned about different types of measures rule, different scales for measuring length or distance, etc. You probably learned to make fun crafts using a ruler. A ruler or tape measure is a useful tool for measuring lengths. Knowing how to use and read the measurement units of a rule is one of the most basic skills, which has uses in various applications such as construction, manufacturing, creating objects such as furniture, for measuring interiors, etc.Here are some easy guidelines on how to read and use a ruler. Step 1

Scales. Each head has two faces, each representing a measurement scale. You need to read a ruler on both sides. On the one hand, you will find the metric system for marking the length and the other side is the scale of English. The metric scale of length or distance measurements in millimeters and centimeters wide, while English uses inches and feet.

Step 2

Using the metric scale. Let's talk about metric first.A measure of the standard rule is generally about a foot long, or in metric terms, roughly 30 centimeters. You will find the ruler marked with lines that are designated by numbers 1 to 30 and between each set of numbers, there are small lines that indicate the number of millimeters. Ten millimeters or equal to 1 mm or cm cm cm is equivalent to one hundred meter and so on. To measure the length between two points on a paper or other medium, place the order with the first inch of line (which can be labeled as zero) on the first point.Mark the number at which the second point on the paper corresponds to the reading of a centimeter on the ruler. For example, with a dot against the zero mark and the second point shows a reading of 3. In this case, the distance in centimeters between two points is 3cm. If the point is actually located at a point beyond 3, but in the line representing four, count the little lines that show the millimeter scale and count the number of lines in which the point of rest, tell the fifth line of small, in which case the distance between two points is 3.5cm or 35mm.

Step 3

Using the scale English. The other side of the rule of length measurements in feet and inches and it is the measurement scale of the rule used in the United States. One foot equals 12 inches between each inch on the rule are small marks in sets of eight. These are called eighths of an inch. Following the instructions same as in step two, you can find the distance in inches and eighths of inches. Using the same two points in the example above, the length is read as 1 and 2 / 8 or one and two eighths of an inch.

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