The war after the war: Pakistan’s POWs and postal propaganda
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Slow Reads
Missionaries in the war zone: Australian Baptists and the birth of Bangladesh
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Slow Reads
The Bangladeshi diaspora in Britain: A forgotten front of 1971
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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American doctors who exposed the Nixon-Kissinger lies
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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The art lover who stole The Love Letter for Bangladesh’s freedom
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Slow Reads
How music carried Bangladesh’s struggle to the world
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Slow Reads
The history we walked past
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Slow Reads
Editor's Note / A PEOPLE’S WAR, A WORLD’S RECKONING
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Slow Reads
Editor's Note / What we owe the martyred intellectuals
14 December 2025, 06:00 AM
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Martyred Intellectuals Day / A martyr of poetry and patriotism
14 December 2025, 05:27 AM
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The history we walked past
The Muktijoddhas made do with whatever weapons and tools they had available.
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
A PEOPLE’S WAR, A WORLD’S RECKONING
We revisit 1971 not as an isolated national event but as a moment woven into larger histories.
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
The war after the war: Pakistan’s POWs and postal propaganda
Postal evidence supports the view that a propaganda campaign was underway as soon as the army surrendered.
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Missionaries in the war zone: Australian Baptists and the birth of Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, the Australian Baptist Missionary Society (ABMS) had workers in Mymensingh, Kulpotak and Joyramkura.
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
The Bangladeshi diaspora in Britain: A forgotten front of 1971
By 1971, Britain’s Bengali community, though modest in size, had established footholds across the industrial heartland: London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford, Luton, Coventry, Sheffield, and Oldham.
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
American doctors who exposed the Nixon-Kissinger lies
Due to its strong ties to Pakistan as a Cold War ally, the Nixon administration declined to recognise the genocide.
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
The art lover who stole The Love Letter for Bangladesh’s freedom
The condition: money must be used for refugees suffering in the war in East Pakistan
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
How music carried Bangladesh’s struggle to the world
In 1971, artists did not merely respond to history—they helped shape it.
15 December 2025, 18:00 PM
What we owe the martyred intellectuals
If we are to carry their work forward, we must build a society where truth matters.
14 December 2025, 06:00 AM
A martyr of poetry and patriotism
As political tensions mounted in East Pakistan, her poetry underwent a decisive transformation.
14 December 2025, 05:27 AM
Filming freedom
When the Liberation War erupted, Raihan crossed into Kolkata—not to retreat, but to fight with his camera.
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Tikka Khan’s letter of warning
The letter was both personal intimidation and a symbol of the regime’s determination to silence intellectual resistance.
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
A life in geology, interrupted
Abdul Muktadir was a gifted geologist and a deeply admired teacher at Dhaka University.
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Traces of Danbir’s humanity
During the First World War, he served in the Royal British Army, fought in Iraq with the Bengal Infantry (Bengali Paltan), and later joined the 1919 Victory March in London, where he was awarded the prestigious Sword of Honour.
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
A champion of communal harmony
In 1948, his historic demand in the Pakistan Constituent Assembly that Bangla be recognised alongside Urdu ignited the first spark of what would later become the Language Movement.
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
The music that defied bullets
During the Liberation War, his home became a refuge for freedom fighters.
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Martyrs of Freedom
An incomplete list of Martyred Intellectuals
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
A compassionate rebel in a doctor’s coat
When the Liberation War erupted in 1971, Dr Alim transformed his medical chamber into a place of refuge.
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
Why is the martyred intellectuals’ list still incomplete?
Since 1971, successive governments have repeatedly pledged to compile a complete list of martyred intellectuals.
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
A deeply committed humanist
Dr Jyotirmoy Guhathakurta was among Dhaka University’s most distinguished educationists—an intellectual shaped by liberal, secular, and humanist ideals.
13 December 2025, 18:00 PM
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