Bangabandhu had no illusions about Pakistanis

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#bangabandhu : Even in the early days of Pakistan, Bangabandhu…

HIS GREATNESS CANNOT BE TARNISHED

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The reactionary forces who captured the state power immediately…

THE STORY OF AN INSPIRATIONAL FIGURE

The genre of biography has been undergoing lots of changes in…

The Declaration of Independence

The 7th March speech of Bangabandhu was the definitive commencement…

The day they killed Bangabandhu

IT was Friday, August 15, 1975. It was one of the most tragic…

The ramifications of August 15, 1975

The murder of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has had grave…

Mujib’s Secret Trial : TIME (23-08-71)

“Our people will react violently to this,” a member of…

Life of the Greatest Poet of Politics

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is not just a name, an icon…

Life of My Father : Sheikh Hasina

BANGABANDHU SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN DEDICATED his life to establishing…

The Day make the victory complete

#bangabandhu : January 10, l972. Day dawned in Dhaka. The great leader of the Bangalees Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is coming back home. The ocean of people passed the night sleepless. They thronged to the Racecourse and Tejgaon Airport to have a better place to stand on and have a glimpse of their beloved great leader […]

Kissinger compared Bangabandhu to Allende

In his book “The Trial of Henry Kissinger” noted journalist Christopher Hitchins, former editor of Harper’s magazine, wrote “Kissinger had received some very bad and even mocking press for his handling of the Bangladesh crisis, and it had somewhat spoiled his supposedly finest hour in China. He came to resent the Bangladeshis and their leader, […]

US to help repatriation of Bangabandhu murder convict

United States Secretary of State John F Kerry pledged Bangladesh to help in repatriation of the most-wanted fugitive Rashed Chowdhury, one of the convicted killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who is living in the USA illegally. The information came from the report on Foreign Minister Abul Hassan Mahmood Ali’s visit to the US in […]

44th Victory Day: Rise of Bangladesh and Beyond

e-NewsDesk- DHAKA, Dec 15, 2014 :  The nine-month long War of Liberation waged by the people of Bangladesh in 1971 will for ever remain recorded as one of the most glorious chapters in human history. The sovereign and independent People’s Republic of Bangladesh, as it stands today, is the outcome of an arduous struggle of […]

Bangladesh Liberation 1971: Recalling United States and China’s Record

Bangladesh emerged as an independent nation in December 1971 after a horrendous ethnic genocide inflicted by the Pakistan Army beginning March 1971 on the Bengali East Pakistan even though the Pakistan Bengalis constituted Pakistan’s majority population. The genocide was vicious and brutal leading to the slaughter of nearly a million Bangladeshis. It was meant to […]

THE STORY OF AN INSPIRATIONAL FIGURE

The genre of biography has been undergoing lots of changes in terms of themes and styles ever since the publication of Boswell’s Life of Dr. Johnson (1791). While Boswell’s work is regarded as the finest literary biography ever written, and still enjoys its status as ‘a classic of language’, many other biographies assume the role […]

OPERATION SEARCHLIGHT

OPERATION SEARCHLIGHT: PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF THE 25th MARCH MASSACRE It was the operation of a country’s regular army, regarded as one of the finest of the time, to kill its own people, unarmed and from all walks of the society. Peddlers, rickshaw-pullers, homeless, police and paramilitary personnel in their barracks, resident students in their […]

The Declaration of Independence

The 7th March speech of Bangabandhu was the definitive commencement of Liberation war. The independence of Bangladesh was declared by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman through a message on 26 March 1971 just before he was arrested at about 1:30 a.m. This declaration of independence marks the beginning of the Liberation War. “This may be my last […]

Images of the Father…

Sometime in the later part of the 1950s, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, then a young, rising politician, threw a question at a rather drowsy Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy. Was it not possible, he asked Pakistan’s prime minister, for East Pakistan to become independent someday? The question startled Suhrawardy wide awake. In a state of disbelief, the […]

The Oriental Sun – Life, Activity and contribution of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Narrative Verse

ISBN: 984 05 1677 9 The Oriental Sun – Life, Activity and contribution of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Narrative Verse By Mihirkanti Choudhury (Author) Publisher(s):Tua-Trisha First Published:2001   No. of Pages:72    Weight (kg):0.5  Price:$5.00

Sheikh Mujib: Triumph and Tragedy By Sayyid A. Karim

ISBN: 984 70220 041 7 Sheikh Mujib: Triumph and Tragedy By Sayyid A. Karim (Author) Publisher(s):The University Press Limited (UPL) First Published:2009-No. of Pages:407-Weight (kg):0.5- Price:$28.00 Writing an objective biography of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the only larger-than-life political figure of Muslim Bengal, is no easy task for a historian. In this well-researched book, Sayyid A. […]

The Unfinished Memoirs-SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN

  ISBN: 978 984 506 111 7 The Unfinished Memoirs (Deluxe Edition)-By SHEIKH MUJIBUR RAHMAN (Author) Publisher(s):The University Press Limited (UPL) First Published:2012, No. of Pages:323, Weight (kg):1, Price:$53.00 When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s diaries came to light in 2004, it was an indisputably historic event. His daughter, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, had the notebooks […]

Dead Reckoning

Dead Reckoning-Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War by Sarmila Bose Description This ground-breaking book chronicles the 1971 war in South Asia by reconstituting the memories of those on opposing sides of the conflict. The year 1971 was marked by a bitter civil war within Pakistan and war between India and Pakistan, backed respectively by the […]