(Obaidullah Aleem (1939-1998) was an Ahmadi Muslim, and for that he lost his job in 1978. On the stage seated with him is Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Khalifatul Masih IV, the religious leader of the Ahmadis. The poem is about the 1971 tragedy when East Pakistan became Bangladesh. That year he was Muslim, in 1974, he was not–because the government said so. In South Asia, idiocies come with a touch of Toba Tek Singh. Ed.)