Prelude Come August, the late Sheikh Mujibur Rahman becomes alive in all forms and features in Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh, which designated the whole month of August as the Mourning Month. Mujib died in a military coup on August 15, 1975. Hasina, Mujib’s daughter, has ruled Bangladesh for nearly twenty years, the last 15 being at […]
Following my escape from the Pakistan Army in 1971, I was assigned to the Z Force of Colonel Ziaur Rahman in the eastern theater of the Bangladesh liberation war. The nearly 20-day journey took me from Lahore to Khem Karan to (India’s) Rajoke to Ferozepur to New Delhi to Kolkata to Agartala and finally to […]
Yes, 10 seconds. While celebrating anything about Sheikh Mujibur Rahman—there are scores of them– his party and sycophants have only one thing to show: a ten-second video footage of his March 7, 1971 speech, eliminating the remaining 1010 seconds of the delivery. As if that heavily edited ten-second oratory was the only thing their leader […]
Some pundits believe India liberated Bangladesh. Pro-Indian elements and their agents in Bangladesh, particularly the Awami League, also think so. That is the Indian concept, the Indian narrative of the Indo-Pak War. On that pretext, India took the surrender of the defeated Pakistan military– to the exclusion of the Bangladesh liberation forces– on the soil […]
The outgoing Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS), General Qamar Javed Bajwa in one of the several farewells meetups categorically said “1971 was not a military, but a political failure. Our army fought courageously in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).” He lamented that those fallen martyrs of the Pakistan Army were never honored and people have […]
Can one deny that the August 15 Revolution and November 7 Sepoy-Janotta Biplob rescued Bangladesh from impending devastations? The deniers, if any, may visit Bangladesh of the time. The Sepoy-Jonota Biplob (Soldiers-People’s Revolution) of November 7, 1975 was a historic event in the life of Bangladesh. It saved the country from a disaster created by […]
Imperialism, inequality and poverty For a rational development of humanity, the evils of imperialism, inequality and poverty must go. Humanity is just one family, and it needs to develop rationally with peace and harmony. Imperialism is domination of a state by another, generally for plunder and, in a small number of cases, for strategic or […]