March 1971
March 28, 1971: Bangladesh seeks global support
After one of the deadliest nights in the country on March 25, the arrest of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the declaration of independence on March 26, freedom fighters kept fighting against the Pakistan army.
March 10, 1971: Bangladesh flag hoisted
The situation in the then East Pakistan was rapidly changing as people from all walks of life responded to the calls of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
The Treasury Officer and those dark days of March 1971
This is the story of my father who was a civil servant assigned as the treasury officer of Dhaka in 1971.
Rayerbazar memorial
The Rayerbazar momorial is the site we go to pay our respects every year to intellectuals massacred on the eve of victory on December 14, 1971.
The trial is more important than the accused
Here we publish a letter written by Kamruddin Ahmad to the Law Minister on November 21, 1972. Kamruddin Ahmad was a Language Movement hero, politician, lawyer and diplomat.
“I Don't Like Twirling the Baton of Politics”
BEFORE we knew it, it was the year 1970. There were political movements all around. The confrontations of the students and the public of East Bengal had reached their peak.
Bangladesh's Liberation War -- Documents and History
Here we publish an excerpt from Hasan Hafizur Rahman's introduction to History of Bangladesh War of Independence: Documents, the largest collection of the Liberation War documents.
A journey through light and shadow
BANGLADESH'S War of Independence in 1971 was the culmination of a prolonged movement for emancipation from economic, political and cultural subjugation by West Pakistan.
The independence movement of Bangladesh
DURING the latter half of the last [ 19th] century, when the poet Nabinchandra Sen was a student of Presidency College, the boys from West Bengal used to poke fun at him by calling him a 'Bangal.'