The iconic statue at the 1971 Shaheed Memorial Complex in Bangladesh has been vandalised amid protests in the nation, and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has reacted sharply to the incident, calling ...
Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we read ...
which marks the historic surrender of Pakistani forces in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 16, 1971. He called the act not only troubling but a direct insult to the historical significance of the ...