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1971
1971 is the year when A country named Bangladesh emerged into the world map. It declared its independence against Pakistan at 26 March 1971 & got victory at 16 December 1971.
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Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence, and a single fear." -When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine
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― Interpreter of Maladies
― Interpreter of Maladies
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If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While India rarely spoke about its imperative as the moral one, and few people steeped in realpolitik can shed their cynicism when a politician speaks in moral terms, and the intervention certainly suited India's strategic interests, the fact remains that in the annals of humanitarian interventions, few were as swift, successful, purpose-driven and with humanitarian goals as the Indian intervention to l
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― The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy
― The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy
