16 Dec 2020

Unstoppable Bangladesh: How the country surpassed Pakistan on most indicators
Victory Day

Unstoppable Bangladesh: How the country surpassed Pakistan on most indicators

Bangladesh surpassed Pakistan in export earning in 2010, and import payment and GDP per capita in 2018

Selina Hossain. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

'We were excited to be liberated, but also saddened for those we had lost'

“I understood what freedom actually feels like”
Bangladesh

“I understood what freedom actually feels like”

How Lt General JFR Jacob secured Pakistan’s surrender in 1971
Victory Day

How Lt General JFR Jacob secured Pakistan’s surrender in 1971

A K M Kamal Uddin Majumder. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

'I decided to go back to my village and find my parents'

Badiul Alam Majumdar. Photo: Collected
Bangladesh

'I feel a little guilty that I could not directly participate'

File photo: Collected
Bangladesh

“After a lot of bloodshed, freedom finally came”

'The war was not over on December 16'
Bangladesh

'The war was not over on December 16'

Representational Image. Photo: Courtesy
Analysis

From hunger to plenty

Protagonists on the top row (From left- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Tajuddin Ahmed, Indira Gandhi, Anthony Mascarenhas, Alexei Kosygin). Antagonists on the bottom row (From left- Yahya Khan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Sirimavo Bandaranaike).
Victory Day

1971: People who shaped the outcome

Lt Gen A A K Niazi signing the Instrument of Surrender under the gaze of Lt Gen J S Aurora. Photo: BSS
Bangladesh

I had set the surrender stage at Race Course: Indian Brig

Former president M Abdul Hamid. Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

President pays tributes to war heroes on Victory Day

A photo of Gorkha Regiment taken from Indian Gorkhas website. Photo: indiangorkhas.in
Panorama

The unforgettable role of Gorkha Regiment in vanquishing Pakistani forces