Immediately after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur declared the independence of Bangladesh on March 26, 1971, the people braced themselves for an onslaught from the Pakistani army. The news of the massacre carried out by the Pakistani army in Dhaka on the night of March 25 had already reached distant pa
Sheikh Mujib is a great man, much larger than life. Unfortunately, the generations, born and brought up in the post-1975 period up to the mid-1990s when there was an attempt to obliterate the evidence of our struggle for independence, are not fully aware of his Himalayan greatness. We hope that wit
The name 'Mahesh Khola' is engraved in my heart as it is a place where my family took refuge during the war of independence in 1971. I had an opportunity to visit Mahesh Khola, a remote village in Baghmara district under the Indian state of Meghalaya, in 2016. I came across many a memories during t
