Observations 40 years later – Bangladesh liberation
Arnold Zeitlin inBangladesh Dear friends: During my week-long visit to Bangladesh (I’m back now in Virginia), I’ve learned things I wish I had known 40 years ago when I was reporting on the conflict that led to the country’s independence. Some the following may be slightly esoteric, so you may want to bail out right [...]
The situation in the country as it exists now is highly undesirable to say the least. Bangladesh on the face of it has a democratic dispensation. The people of the country also remain overwhelmingly committed to democracy. In fact, Bangladesh owes its existence to a long quest for democracy. Historians from one perspective have noted [...]
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America’s founding fathers are often conjured from the past to bolster various political arguments, but Sunday in Jamaica a soldier from Bangladesh’s war for independence was there in the flesh, speaking about the bloody fight and how there are always two sides to history. Nuran Nabi has a slight frame and wears wire-rimmed glasses. He [...]
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Jamaluddin Ahmed This following is a piece from the 6th February issue of India Today, ”In late December last year, a secret letter went from New Delhi to Dhaka. It was delivered directly to Sheikh Hasina, 65, the prime minister of Bangladesh. It warned her that Islamist radicals embedded within the Bangladesh Army were planning [...]
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The 37th Road pedestrian plaza has not been a hit with local business owners. By Voices of New York Some Jackson Heights merchants have complained that the pedestrianized plaza on 37th Road has hurt their business, but it may become the site of a new city tradition, reported the Queens Chronicle: Bangladeshi groups [...]
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Fall of Dhaka 1971 – The other side of the story The Rediff Interview/Lt Gen A A Khan Niazi February 02, 2004 After a series of stunning advances in December 1971, Indian forces routed Pakistan and liberated Bangladesh in less than two weeks. It was one of India’s swiftest and most brilliant military campaigns that [...]
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By Mark Dummett On 13 June 1971, an article in the UK’s Sunday Times exposed the brutality of Pakistan’s suppression of the Bangladeshi uprising. It forced the reporter’s family into hiding and changed history. Abdul Bari had run out of luck. Like thousands of other people in East Bengal, he had made the mistake – [...]
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Anuradha Sharma, TNN | Dec 11, 2011, Bangladeshwas born 40 years ago, but there’s a lingering debate that continues to this day with no convincing answer. Who was it exactly that declared the country free? Sheikh Mujibur Rahman or Ziaur Rahman? The answer still divides Bangladeshis, largely on political lines. The Awami League, and also [...]
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by Jonathan Richmond While the film “Meherjaan”, suspended from viewing in Bangladesh due to the offence it caused through its depiction of romance in the midst of wartime brutality, may have quietly slipped from memory in Dhaka, its director, Rubaiyat Hossain, has been taking her work on tour outside Bangladesh in an attempt to garner [...]
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By Tusher Amin It’s not an interesting story that you could read in interest, it’s a day from our glorious history that we forget…. The writing is going to start from a rare page of our history. It was 5 September 1971, 39 years from today. That day was glorified after the sacrifice of our [...]
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