Bangladesh Liberation War
Two storms and a nation’s birth
The Vortex is a collage of selfless acts to help victims of the Bhola cyclone and the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Can we process trauma through writing?
Iffat Nawaz, together with The Daily Star’s Books & Literary Editor, Sarah Anjum Bari, will discuss the act and impact of processing traumatic memories through writing.
52 Years of Bangladesh's Independence / The unfinished fight for people’s freedom
Bangladesh was supposed to be a country run by its people, but we are dangerously moving towards a country being run by a coterie.
1971
In west Texas, oil froths luxurious from hard ground while across Bangladesh, bayoneted women stain pond water blossom.
52 years of independence / Stories that we tell ourselves
How should a nation memorialise its history?
Bangabandhu comes home, completes victory
It was the British Royal Air Force comet jet that, on January 10, 1972, carried Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to his freed motherland -- the country he had led to independence.
Snapshots from 1971
On this day in 1971, Bangladesh was liberated from the Pakistan occupation forces following a bloody nine-month war. These pictures were taken in December, 1971.
Echoes / Bangladesh: A War Like No Other
It’s now the responsibility of the youth to dig through that history and feel proud.
Vicky Kaushal all set to play Manekshaw, Indian army chief during Liberation War
Bollywood star Vicky Kaushal says he has started preparing for the much-anticipated film “Sam Bahadur”, a biopic on India’s first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw who was the country’s army chief during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh.
Two storms and a nation’s birth
The Vortex is a collage of selfless acts to help victims of the Bhola cyclone and the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
Can we process trauma through writing?
Iffat Nawaz, together with The Daily Star’s Books & Literary Editor, Sarah Anjum Bari, will discuss the act and impact of processing traumatic memories through writing.
The unfinished fight for people’s freedom
Bangladesh was supposed to be a country run by its people, but we are dangerously moving towards a country being run by a coterie.
Stories that we tell ourselves
How should a nation memorialise its history?
1971
In west Texas, oil froths luxurious from hard ground while across Bangladesh, bayoneted women stain pond water blossom.
Bangabandhu comes home, completes victory
It was the British Royal Air Force comet jet that, on January 10, 1972, carried Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to his freed motherland -- the country he had led to independence.
Snapshots from 1971
On this day in 1971, Bangladesh was liberated from the Pakistan occupation forces following a bloody nine-month war. These pictures were taken in December, 1971.
Bangladesh: A War Like No Other
It’s now the responsibility of the youth to dig through that history and feel proud.
Vicky Kaushal all set to play Manekshaw, Indian army chief during Liberation War
Bollywood star Vicky Kaushal says he has started preparing for the much-anticipated film “Sam Bahadur”, a biopic on India’s first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw who was the country’s army chief during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh.
Diversity and nuance mark the Bangladeshi experience in Sohana Manzoor's 'Our Many Longings: Contemporary Short Fiction From Bangladesh'
So many words have been used to describe this nation in the last 50 years. Started from a bottomless basket, and along the way we’ve been called resilient, passionate, corrupt, greedy, full of warmth.
