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Dec 15, 2023 · 52 years ago on December 16, India witnessed its greatest military triumph after it crushed Pakistan. Bangladesh was liberated. What was Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw widely known as Sam...
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How a freshman Gentleman Cadet pass out as a commissioned officer in Bangladesh Army.A Complete Documentary with subtitles included.More info @http://bma.mil.bd
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- Rashed H. Sayem
- Bodies Never Found
- A Fruitless Search
- For The Love of His Mother
- Going Against The Current
- The Personal Becomes Political
- The Women Take Charge
The two Shaha men were among hundreds of thousands of people who were abducted, murdered or disappeared by those fighting on the Pakistani side of the conflict, during the nine-month civil war that followed. The full details of what happened to the two men remain shrouded in mystery, despite desperate attempts by the family to learn the truth, Shah...
Rajiv was just two and half years old when his father and grandfather were abducted. He recounts these stories drawing from the memories of a coterie of women who shielded him and his mother Shrimoti, who was just 19 years old at the time of her husband’s disappearance. Chief among them was Pratibha Mutsuddy, whom Rajiv addresses as ‘Boroma’ (elder...
RP Shaha was a native of Mirzapur, though he was born in 1896 in his maternal uncle’s home in Savar, near Dhaka. After the partition of British India, Mirzapur fell within the territory of East Pakistan. But he made his fortune as a coal merchant in Kolkata (then known as Calcutta), a city that lies more than 300km west of Shaha’s village and which...
Such was the faith RP Shaha had in his compatriots that “even when the riots of 1964 happened my grandfather never thought of leaving his countrymen; he swam against the current,” Rajiv says, referring to the wave of attacks on Hindus in East Pakistan following the disappearance of a strand of hair widely believed to have been the Prophet Muhammad’...
But after India and Pakistan fought a war with each other in 1965, the atmosphere in East Pakistan became increasingly tense, and even those not directly involved in politics found themselves being portrayed as enemy agents. In her testimony against Shaha’s killers, Pratibha Mutsuddy said that after the war, the provincial governor of East Pakistan...
Rajiv says a few brave women held the family together after the tragedy. RP Shaha’s daughter, Joya Pati, stepped in to manage the family’s enterprises and continued to do so until 1999, with Rajiv at the helm since. And when Pakistani soldiers, accompanied by Razakars, went to the Bharateswari School in May 1971 and demanded that female students be...
Dec 6, 2022 · Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 is one of the most notable events in our history. In this video, Dhruv Rathee talks about the background of the political situation leading up to the war and ...
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Apr 24, 2024 · Locals started rescue work immediately after the collapse, with the army, navy, fire service, Ansar, RAB and police quickly joining the rescue operation. Preventable tragedy. A day before the collapse, cracks appeared in some pillars of the third and fourth floors of the building, which prompted the workers to come down to the street.
1 day ago · This 2021 photo provided by Bethel Park School District shows student Thomas Matthew Crooks who graduated from Bethel Park High School with the Class of 2022, in Bethel Park, Pa. Crooks was identified by the FBI as the shooter involved in an assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday, July 13, 2024, in Butler, Pa. (Bethel Park School District via AP)
Jul 6, 2024 · Patrice Motz, a Spanish teacher, was one of more than 20 educators at Great Valley Middle School in Malvern, Pa., targeted by students on TikTok. Hannah Yoon for The New York Times. Natasha Singer ...
