Martyred Intellectuals Day 2022

My three martyred teachers

The month of December is a month of joy and celebration all over the world, and in Bangladesh as well. But to me, it brings back the horrid memory of the killing of intellectuals on December 14-15, 1971,

Legacies of Loss

According to Dhaka University’s Annual Report for 1971-72, at the beginning of Operation Searchlight, 10 Dhaka University professors were killed.

My ’71: Experiencing Genocide, Understanding Violence

In the month of January 1971, I was a student of Class X of Holy Cross School. My par-ents and I were then living in the Dhaka University campus. My father, who taught Eng-lish literature at the university, took up the administrative post of Provost of Jagannath Hall.