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Writers of the Bangladeshi diaspora reflect on liberation and identity.

March 26, 2021 marks the 50 th anniversary of the day that Bangladesh declared independence, the day that began a nine-month Liberation War, encapsulating a history that includes the legacies of Partition and colonization before that, and making way to continue the legacies of nationhood and diaspora after it.

As a child of the deshi diaspora, I think often about being on the receiving end of this creation of a nation. What does its struggle for liberation mean to me? It is bound up with my sense of identity, no doubt, but also bound by it. Sometimes the deeper I search my history, the more unwieldy it becomes, and the more incapable I feel of developing a responsible connection to it. Geography does this, time does this, erasure by oppressive forces does this; if you’re kept at a distance from something, you’re less likely to give it the value it needs to be uplifted. Fifty years in diaspora-time may as well be 500 years.

So then, given the opportunity to gather a group of Bangladeshi writers and ask them to reflect on where their own understandings of identity and liberation do or don’t intersect, my mind races: There isn’t time. I don’t know enough. How to encapsulate every voice?

It takes some grounding to realize that there is no way that the space of just one set of borders, one set of lines that make a flag or a ratifying document, one set of pages in a folio or anthology, is enough to perfectly encompass them all. And it takes some imagination to realize that there is still more room, still more time out there. Instead, these borders and lines do what I think might be the true work of revolution and legacy—they branch out to make room for new lines, expanding what we know of Bangladesh, widening the scope through which see it, opening up the voices through which we hear it.

Considering 1971 in 2021, the writers in this folio ask: Can we both define an identity and still be free? What are the beauties of the struggles our forebears achieved, and at what cost did we inherit them? And, how can independence be re-visioned when we look at it through interdependence? How much more expansive might we be?

If one way to create identity is through boundaries and definitions, then these twelve pieces begin to pick at those boundaries and loosen them, let them breathe a bit, see what more might be incorporated into the fray.

In “Notes on Doves,” the piece from which this folio takes its title, Mahdi Chowdhury takes as his starting point a still from Zahir Raihan’s documentary Stop Genocide and offers us eight notes, like stills of his own, that encapsulate his reflection. Tanaïs’ excerpt from “Other Tongue” and Jennifer Chowdhury’s “Bangladesh still owes its women liberation” begin to name the shortcomings of the title birangona , or “war heroine,” and highlight the further trauma we invite in thinking that the proclamation of this title has put a stop to the shaming and devaluing of women. Mikail Khan’s “I Lived in the Future” confronts the “collective failure to reckon” with the wounds that transgender Bangladeshis have faced, and also makes space for the abundant future that we must be sure about reaching for. Ushshi Seraphim’s epic poem “Genocide of the Heart” and Fariha Roísín’s poem “1971” ask their readers to hold the sheer scale and weight of the genocide, with Rahman’s poem challenging, “Cut down our bloom, or try,” and Roísín’s challenging that readers “remember us, like you’d remember white death.”

In “Independence Day,” Ayesha Islam unpacks an anecdote about an encounter with American supremacy in order to remind us that “Bangladeshis have a rich history of fighting for justice” and invite us to imagine more ways to center radical love and community. Tanzila Ahmed’s “Jangal” explores the connections between “the fierce wildness of nature in the origin of [her own] being” and navigating her father’s village via Google Maps. Samira Sadeque’s poem “No One Sings Lovesongs for My Countrymen” and Zubair Ahmed’s piece “To Be As Is” uplift the importance of language and utterance both in grieving those who have fought for freedom as well as in securing freedom for those to come. In “The Flag Bearer,” Abeer Hoque pens a tribute to her trailblazing Nanu, Meherunnessa Islam, weaving the warp and weft of this grandmother’s and granddaughter’s parallel explorations of their relationships to modesty. And in a similar intergenerational dialogue, in “Ideas of Liberation” we hear mother Zohora Begum and daughter Aaisha Bhuiyan compare experiences of shadhinota , matribhumi , and diaspora.

For every one of these writers, I know that there are three more—and three more for them, and three more for them. After all, liberation is not just freedom, but freedom plus the responsibility to pass it on to another.

“We must regard the revolution as unfinished.” Aasho . Let us keep writing it.

—Nadia Q. Ahmad

Content warning in the following pieces for rape, genocide, trauma, and war.

1. Zohora Begum and Aaisha Bhuiyan 2. Tanaïs 3. Mahdi Chowdhury 4. Abeer Hoque 5. Samira Sadeque 6. Ushshi Seraphim 7. Ayesha Islam 8. Zubair Ahmed 9. Jennifer Chowdhury 10. Tanzila Ahmed 11. Fariha Róisín 12. Mikail Khan

Ideas of Liberation : An open dialogue between a Ma and her Meye

By zohora begum and aaisha bhuiyan.

I was not born in shackles I savored the open air and the vast skies to the fullest With every breath. Oh, you who have not yet tasted independence, if only I could share this feeling with you

I am speaking today of the independence of my country I am speaking today of the independence of self I truly feel as though I’m swimming merrily on my way I am fortunate

I did not encounter war I’ve only read about it But I’ve watched the stories of liberation come alive in their eyes Who survived the events of 1971

History remembers how they sacrificed themselves, how much blood was shed, the relentless courage, and nine months of war To give my birthplace a name, land, the red and green of our flag I am grateful We will get independence When we stand our ground.

—Zohora Begum, translated by Aaisha Bhuiyan

Meye : Oh, how I envy you Ma The joy with which you write of being liberated and swimming under open skies But I can’t help but wonder–if you truly are

How can I claim independence when I still have not learned to write the আ of my name when I speak another language better than my own– I lost mine when the girl from second grade made fun of my accent

I do not know war but I also do not know this liberation you speak of I hear their stories of sacrifice and read about their bloodshed and my heart is full, but how can I claim something I myself did not attain? I feel lost in the unholy middle of our diaspora

The only times I see the fruit of your labor are when I remember us dancing in the kalboishakhi rains With you, I have felt free to do anything, without worry of the outside world: pick little green mangoes and flaunt my Bengali roots

Yet how can we be liberated when every time I walk in the streets of my city I guise my femininity and walk more like a man Perhaps if I am one of them, I am safe?

This is the independence we have, Ma But yes, you are a fighter You nurture and you shelter, I am safe And only then, I am free

—Aaisha Bhuiyan

From “Other Tongue”

When I remember, my being shatters. What have I lost, what have I gained. I don’t like this. That Mozhair should’ve been caught. People should’ve seen how evil that bastard was. I’ve lost it all, he made me a widow, I lost my sindoor. Tie his hands behind him. Shoot him in front of me. Can you do it? If I don’t witness this, the burning within will never cease. He was a killer. He killed my children in front of me. What else? —Survivor Gurudashi Mondal to filmmaker Yasmine Kabir in the 2005 documentary A Certain Liberation

After a young Hindu woman, Gurudashi Mondal, witnessed the murder of her husband and children in 1971—including her nursing infant—by rajakars , she was kidnapped and kept in sexual bondage until neighbors finally were able to save her life. Her mind and heart were shattered after the experience. Her friends took her to the only mental health institution in Bangladesh—in Pabna, my father’s hometown—but she escaped so many times that she was released. In the first few minutes of the documentary A Certain Liberation , we witness her yelling at men, swinging her lathi, a long bamboo rod, at their asses. She loves all of the young children, even nurses infants whose mothers can’t. Most of her teeth have fallen out, stained red with paan residue, but her smile is sweet, mischievous. One of her close friends, a Muslim woman, notes how her own family stopped eating meat so Gurudashi could eat her vegetarian meals with them.

Call me Ma, Gurudashi says, weeping, or I’ll kill myself . She worships at the Kali temple, lays down blood-red hibiscus blooms as offerings to the goddess. She wants to be buried, not cremated, so that people can leave gifts and prayers upon her grave. Losing her identity as a wife and mother, losing the red vermillion mark on her forehead, stole her desire to live. The unhealable wound of the war.

I wept witnessing Gurudashi’s visceral pain, one that I had felt from my earliest memory hearing about the war. I wept, sensing her despair and madness as an intricate performance to survive the unimaginable. I wept for the deep love and ease these women in Khulna knew between themselves, how Hindu and Muslim were not fixed, masculine, separate identities but fluid, feminine and shared. And I wept for the part of me that knew violation.

Gurudashi is forbidden entry at a rally for the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, daughter of the slain Father of our people, Sheikh Mujib. She hasn’t done the paperwork, and so Gurudashi remains unrecognized by the State as a birangona. The moment endures in a newspaper photograph: she is crying, locked behind a gate, with a few of the details of her story—but not the details of what she endured in captivity. Her world ended as soon as her captors murdered her entire family, including her infant. She never says more. The State’s word birangona acknowledges that women were raped—by the Pakistani Army and rajakars —but the women become a mythic anonymous. Did a woman’s madness without public admission of rape make her a more authentic survivor? For the first time, I contemplated how a kept secret, withholding an utterance of rape, could feel—free. The hushed secret of Gurudashi’s history acknowledged her suffering, but without the naming and subsequent shaming that so many birangona faced in their villages. Gurudashi is tenderly protected and accepted as a Mother to all, Mother of Bengal, a woman utterly shadhin— free—to say and do whatever she pleases. Men cannot harm or control her. And yet, when she died in 2009, her village cremated her body, despite her wishes—no doubt the men decided cremation as the only acceptable rite for a born Hindu—they scattered her ashes into the river. Liberation.

Excerpted “OTHER TONGUE,” IN SENSORIUM (HMH BOOKS 2022)

Notes on doves, by mahdi chowdhury.

1. A still photograph of doves suspended in water. Their bodies are lifeless and embalmed in a celluloid resin; their memory is olive-hued and patinated with half a century’s worth of time. How do we interpret this image from Zahir Raihan’s Stop Genocide ? A visual metaphor for the bodies of Bengali innocents and the animal genocide of peace? Or is this image, rather, the closest thing we have in Raihan’s documentary to a moment of breath, to a spiritual allegory? (An image of “peace” as much as it can be symbolized within the war-archive.) On the fiftieth anniversary of the War of Liberation, I think of other such doves.

2. The children were sent to the countryside. My mother was still young enough that she had to be carried. In the distance, a dog barked. The sudden noise startled my grandmother. In taking a step back, the rifle bullet soared past the baby in her arms.

3. In the providential course of that moment is the thin causal basis of my own life—but that does not bother me. What bothers me is imagining my mother as a child, the potential of her life reduced to a microphysical sequence of barks and stray bullets. It is difficult to parse out a meaning. Difficult still to imagine one’s mother so small and so mercilessly vulnerable.

4. This is the story of the War of Liberation: one of sheer contingency. That which is “contingent” is not destined or inevitable. The contingent has no ontological necessity. It is the space of the accidental, the earthly, the sum of all that happens and does not happen. It is history in its disenchanted light—it is the haunted structure of the War of Liberation.

5. These memories are neither mine nor my mother’s. Rather, it is a relationship to memory. Marianne Hirsch coined the term “postmemory” to theorize this contradictory and affective process of inheritance among descendents of Holocaust survivors “dominated by narratives that preceded one’s birth or one’s consciousness.” It is an inheritance that comes with the “risk [of] having one’s own life stories displaced [by] our ancestors.” In “postmemory,” we nevertheless still retain the power to be critical: critical about the redemptive promises of heritage and a nationalism founded on the commons of catastrophe.

6. The pull of “lost futures” is irresistible. Raihan began his documentary with a placard of Lenin—and, in A State is Born , the anthem of liberation is “The International.” In the Second Congress of the Communist Party in 1973 , there is a short-lived sense that destiny had at last been seized: for “the toiling masses of Bangladesh [living] in subhuman conditions,” “two hundred years of British colonial rule” and its vampiric continuation in “the Pakistani era,” have come to an end. The path is illumined to the last frontier—and “only socialism can bring emancipation.” One wonders where our noble dreams now reside. One cannot omit from political reflection the black-sites of the technocratic state, the militarized hill tracts, the refugee colony in the Indian Ocean, the union-busted garment factory, the grainy video of corrugated tin-roofs torn off of Hindu homes by mobs of police-protected young men.

7. Fragments of that proletarian dream, that will to universal dignity, still exist. They exist even outside of Bangladesh, in the circulatory flows of global Bangladeshi labour. “Diaspora” seems too effete a term for where bittermelon and mustard oil is sold opposite to Shatila Refugee Camp, where the Mediterranean is darkness incarnate on the Libyan shore, and where the heart of a twenty-five year old stops beating under the beams of a skeletal Emirati football stadium. I think of other such doves. “What is a nation but a tangled, heaving mass? An exercise in performance?” asks Momtaza Mehri. She describes the fluttering array of North African flags and Algerian patriotic chants cast into the air by hyphenated youths in Paris after France’s World Cup victory. We, like them, are “bound to ambivalence,” an ironic ambivalence—our revolution and our discontents, our pride and our shame, the nightmare of history and the consolation prize that our freedom fighters will outlive Henry Kissinger. Mehri writes: “Do not blame the hungry for feasting on symbolism.”

8. If there is to be a noble dream, if we are to honor the War of Liberation, we must regard its revolution as unfinished. (Its time is open, its boundaries are global.)

The Flag Bearer

By abeer hoque.

My maternal grandmother, Meherunessa Islam, was educated at Eden College in Dhaka and then at Victoria Institution in Calcutta. It was in Calcutta that her faithful burkah, which had clung to her all through school, was suddenly left aside.

In 1944, she joined Sakhawat Memorial Government Girls School in Calcutta as Assistant Mistress. Founded by the legendary women’s rights activist Begum Rokeya, the school allowed the emancipated Muslim community to send their daughters to school. Each morning, my grandmother reminded the bus drivers and the ayah to make sure the window screens were intact and properly hung, so that the students would not be visible to the prying eyes of men. Girls were considered to be hidden treasures, and this system of purdah was to avoid public criticism. When the girls reached school, my grandmother watched them throw their burkahs off and fly about the school compound like joyful free birds. Hers had been with her for as long as she had needed it. She found herself unafraid without one.

Sixty odd years later, in Dhaka, I liberated myself from the orna, the scarf traditionally worn with a shalwar kamis. Often bright and beautiful, the ornas I’d seen growing up were more of a gesture towards modesty than actually covering up any naughty bits. For example, some women would wear them over only one shoulder (leaving the other breast uncovered), or close around the neck with the ends falling toward the back (hiding nothing more than one’s throat).

It was my first time actually living in Bangladesh as an adult, after all the childhood summer vacations with my family. Unused to wearing traditional Bangladeshi dress other than at occasional weddings and dawats in the United States, I found the orna fussy and awkward, in addition to failing in its one alleged purpose—modesty. Still, I was bound to the idea that wearing an orna would prove my Bangladeshi identity, and at the same time, I was finding it difficult to follow through.

After the partition of India in 1947, my grandmother left Calcutta to return to Dhaka. The provincial capital city of East Bengal was a city of Nawabs (landowners) and Kuttis (locals), with hardly any middle class. Nawab women were captives in their own homes, and hardly allowed to see sunlight or moonshine. Poor Kutti working women fashioned long burkahs from old sharees to hide themselves while earning a livelihood. They were dubbed “moving tents” by onlookers.

Kutti men were deeply perturbed by the arrival of the liberated women from Calcutta. They raised a wall of resistance with marches, slogans, and even physical violence. Women were attacked with bricks and bats, warned to wear burkahs, and not to go out. Horse carriages carrying girl students were stoned, injuring and terrorising the girls inside. Abusive pamphlets and handbills were circulated that spoke vehemently against girls and women for their non-observance of purdah. Many girls stopped going to school and several schools shut down, including my grandmother’s alma mater, Eden College.

My grandmother was demoralized, but she also understood that she and her colleagues were the messengers of emancipation. As loyal disciples of Begum Rokeya, they could not back down. A group of them sought government help and received liberal support. Every horse carriage carrying girl students was escorted by armed police for their protection. Parents and guardians got letters of assurance as to the safety of their daughters. Schools started functioning again under the protection and care of both governmental and civic sectors.

I had been living in Dhaka for two years when I met a woman who had dispensed with the orna altogether. I was shocked and in awe. It would take me a year to follow suit, because I still desperately wanted to belong. Over time, I would come to understand that belonging, like modesty, takes place more in your mind than on your body. If you think you’re modest or you belong, then you’re modest and you belong. If you don’t, there’s no telling you otherwise.

There are more women wearing burkahs on the streets of Dhaka today than when my mother was growing up in the decades before. My loose dyed curly hair, my American Mary Janes, my lack of orna, none of it fits. To boot, I’m not as brave as I was when I was younger; now I shy away from street portraiture or skip wandering the markets at night. But I feel Bangladeshi, even if no one else sees it. And I know now there are a million ways to be Bangladeshi. 163 million to be exact.

I don’t know how Meherunessa Islam would feel about the burkahs or orna now, if she’d be disheartened or askance or outraged. But I know what she’d do. My grandmother was a flag bearer after all. The least I can do is follow.

Note: The sections about Meherunessa Islam are excerpted from her self-written memoir, Recollections , which Hoque is currently editing.

No one sings lovesongs for my countrymen, by samira sadeque.

“বাংলা আমার দৃপ্ত স্লোগান ক্ষিপ্ত তীর ধনুক, আমি একবার দেখি, বারবার দেখি, দেখি বাংলার মুখ।” “Bangla is my spirited chant my maddened bow and arrow, I see her once, I see her everywhere, I see my beloved Bangla’s presence.” ––from “Ami Banglay Gaan Gai,” composed by Pratul Mukhopadhyay

It was the month of February and there, again, was another corpse.

Mushtaq Ahmed, a writer who had been jailed for criticizing the Bangladeshi government’s response to the pandemic, died in prison last month. His death was in the making for years. He is one of many writers, journalists, photojournalists, and cartoonists that have been under attack from the state and/or terrorist entities in the country over the last two decades.

These attacks rarely make headlines in international news. If we’re lucky, a mere mention. While the international news cycle moves on to the next story, we remain reeling. No one cries for our countrymen––the fighters, the writers, those breaking their backs just to be able to live an ordinary life in a free country. No one sings love songs for them. After the dust settles, after each attack, each arrest, they remain in anticipation of the freedom that our ancestors fought for, the freedom we celebrate today.

As a Bangladeshi-born journalist in New York, I constantly find myself negotiating for that freedom too. My aspirations for telling the story of my community shuttles between a dream and a fear: that sometimes telling a story means shattering the sharpest of silences, but that many sharp edges will inevitably spill blood.

I wrote this poem in anticipation of a land, a lifetime, where freedom can come before bloodshed, not from it––one where the ordinary men and women of my country bask in the early morning glory of the winter sun, one where we can truly feel the freedom in our bones.

No One Sings Lovesongs For My Countrymen

No one sings lovesongs for my countrymen. Dhaka is a bloodshed letter, has always been; in it mother says, child, listen child, don’t bleed, child, come home.

Dhaka is the lamp-rimmed

tea stalls behind the early hours of a dawn yawning

behind the men always standing by the storefronts, their hands

behind their backs, backs

behind their dreams

behind their eyes following the road into

in it, they wait for eternity,

or sometimes, just the lottery.

No one sings lovesongs for my countrymen. They are the heart still beating in this city’s bullet-ridden body their footsteps march have always marched since the month of March for days, years, decades as though it is the only language they have ever known,

Dhaka is a half-alive son, a half-done protest recurring like an unfinished orgasm, maybe to give birth to freedom, as though it is the only language they have ever known,

in it, the children don’t die

with hammers, or on the wrong bus, or while learning how to curl their palms into fists,

in it, the children grow up, they sing lovesongs

for our countrymen.

Genocide of The Heart

By ushshi seraphim.

Bloodshed – a uterus gouged in imbalance, the alchemy of sacrifice. Endless Of your life force Of the human you were gifted with.

It rains down on us, this patina, this halo of chlorophyll green An Anthurium guised as a Bleeding Heart perennially in bloom defying the Mother itself, but only because She asked, first – a murmuration then in a flash – the Red Sun.

Faith – in the Unseen, enough to abandon rank and traverse back to land from whence The Call commences Enough to bear arms against an encroaching world That will strip you bare Esteem you worthless.

It seeps, Into this soul, this dense soil It charges chariot forward – gushing in five regal currents tilling criss cross – the IV drip to your chrysalis. Burst forth!

Don’t you see? Can’t you see? That they come to extinguish the way that threatens, The Path of the future Of Balance. They live in abject terror masked as a legion of righteous light. Cold. Callous. Cruel.

Cut down our bloom, or try. Machete yielding, draped in white muslin no less Muslim when all is gone, this infinite ivy – loyal to the Underworld Judge of the Dead – will need no might to charge forth For it is all that is meant to remain.

We are the future. We will bear the answers. We will save it All. Including you.

Independence Day

By ayesha islam.

A few years ago, I found myself in a somewhat tense back-and-forth with a U.S. military veteran. It was the Fourth of July and we were in the Arabian Peninsula. If you know me, you know that I stiffen at overzealous American patriotism—an allegiance that can be so tied with white supremacy and imperialism that disentangling it into a separate entity becomes difficult. If you know me, you also know that I grew up with immigrant parents from Bangladesh–so while the Fourth of July may signify hot dogs and backyard barbecues for some, it was typically just another day at our home.

The veteran couldn’t wrap his head around my lack of vigor for celebrating America. He posed question after question, trying to understand how I could possibly not be enamored with the land of the free and the home of the brave. After an hour of discussing America’s successes (mostly him) and failures (mostly me), he finally said what I now believe was the core of his sentiment:

“But aren’t you grateful your parents immigrated here? Aren’t you glad you didn’t grow up in Bangladesh?”

He was falling into the same trap that I myself am not impervious to—the notion that America is God’s gift to man, that all other countries are “backwards” or wrapped in despair, and that life in non-Western countries like Bangladesh must be awful and bleak. What a disappointing and foolish view that my life couldn’t have been beautiful, autonomous, or meaningful had I grown up in Bangladesh.

In both my professional and personal life, I try centering my work around those harmed by oppressive systems. While I constantly refer to external communities for inspiration, I often forget that Bangladeshis themselves have a rich history of fighting for justice. And although I have only recently begun learning about some of the socialist and progressive histories rooted in Bangladesh’s liberation, they have already given me immense hope. They help me see that Bangladeshi struggles have paralleled that of anti-colonialist movements across the globe. From the economic exploitation of East Pakistan to the denial of basic civil and human rights for Bengali populations, these pains are universal.

Of course, hearing racist or misogynistic remarks from Bengali uncles and aunties always brings me back to reality. Our people have a long way to go. But finding ways to love and hold patience for others—while challenging their deeply flawed ways of thinking—is crucial to movement-building. Many Bangladeshis aren’t able to be the critical thinkers we want them to be because of the ways democracy and free thought were suppressed for generations, creating political and historical amnesia at a national scale.

Although watching our community harbor views that are so antithetical to liberation is frustrating, I believe the sooner we embrace that Bangladeshi liberation has been (and continues to be) tied to all liberation struggles, the sooner we can all be free–in the realest possible ways that transcend politics.

To Be As Is

By zubair ahmed.

Rivers, rains, and bloodlines. Crowds, crows, and photos. My body rising from the earth, stitched together by five thousand years of ancestors. The great mountains in the deep north, the delta visible from space, a sculpture carved from thousands of veins of water—these, some hallmarks of the land now called Bangladesh.

My uncle shares a story.

He hides in a ditch with two others. They wait to hear the truck. It comes closer. He holds his breath, pulls the pin, hesitates for what feels like eternity. He throws the grenade and dashes through the nearby farmland, hoping for no survivors — he feels naked among the rice. He runs furiously, finally stops to breathe, checks in with his fellow freedom fighters. They nod, breathing heavily. They stay crouching in the bushes, still as the moon.

The Liberation War of 1971 haunts my dreams as a child. I feel the dead limp across the screen of my mind. When my uncle shares his stories — another one, lying between burnt and dying bodies, avoiding the soldiers — I imagine a great fire in the background, burning the soul of a people to a bright orange light.

The war was fought for a language. A country named after a language. Shonar Bangla. Bangla with its tones of gold. Hundreds of thousands violated, killed, laid into the soil. Millions of eyes pried open. Witnessing the void and the sorrows of the human condition. We live now liberated as Bangladesh. But is liberation an idea? Does liberation live within language? I feel the answer is no.

Where language ends, an essence begins whose nature is freedom. When put inside language, it becomes the phrase, “To be as is.”

Shadhinota — freedom. For this word, we fought until the mother’s last child walked into the night. The true space of this fight, in my view, is to exist as is, as we are, not influenced by forces that make us conform to ways dissonant to our souls. For me, this is why Bangladesh fought the Liberation War. Taking a step back, maybe this is why the oppressed fight all wars.

Affected by these horrors as a child, I see liberation and my Bangladeshi identity precipitate in my yearning to have real freedom arise in this world. My being longs for freedom not just for human beings, but for all species on this planet — humans, trees, and our countless living kin.

Liberation and respect form two sides of the same understanding. I see the path ahead winding around community awareness, decolonization, women’s empowerment, difficult conversations, and a need for reflection both as individuals and as societies. We won what in the eyes of history shines as a significant but imbalanced liberation. We have yet to understand, as a species, the deep need for respecting all that exists.

These changes begin with us, in us. In how we relate to our minds, and how we relate to others. Freedom and respect begin at home. Home is where we can be as is.

Bangladesh still owes its women liberation

By jennifer chowdhury.

An image has stuck with me for years: a now popular photo by Rashid Talukder from 1970, during the non-cooperation movement leading up to the Liberation War—a black and white shot of young women, most clad in white saris, rifles slung over their arms, marching in formation. Valiant warriors, Bangladeshi women took up arms to free the nation from oppressive forces.

The stereotype associated with Bengali women—across both halves of the border between India and Bangladesh in particular—is that we are intelligent, free-wheeling, liberated. But on the eastern side, now proudly proclaimed Bangladesh, women’s bodies have been castigated since the formation of our country. Historians estimate that hundreds of thousands of women were raped by the Pakistani army during the Liberation War. President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared they would be given the utmost respect, honored for their sacrifices so that Bangladeshis could rule their own land. They were granted the title “Birangona,” meaning ”brave woman” or “war heroine.” But our war heroines mostly lived a life of shame and subjugation—cast aside over the fifty-year timeline of the nation that formed from their scarred wombs. Bangladeshi society, over time, came to celebrate Biragonas as part of our history, proclaiming that nothing like this would ever be allowed to happen again.

But the country has learned nothing. Bangladesh still owes its women liberation.

It owes Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who was burned to death in 2019 for daring to fight a sexual harassment case against her teacher. It owes the four women on average (according to reported cases alone) that were raped every day during the pandemic. It owes the women survivors who are extorted and threatened with social media shaming. It owes acid attack survivors—overwhelmingly female.

Immigrant parents owe their baby girls in the U.S., U.K., Australia—wherever our families have brought us because their homeland was too fragile to hold us. They locked us behind prison bars of modesty and shame while routinely loading their emotional cargo onto us.

Bangladeshi diaspora men owe the women of the diaspora—who they bond with over belonging and identity, promising us liberation from our strict homes and foraging through our dreams, only to bring us crashing down, punishing us for loving them so recklessly.

Though Talukder’s photo is a foundational element of Bangladesh’s history—a promising visual of equality and equity—in reality, liberation for women still awaits.

by Tanzila Ahmed

How do you spell the “jungle” that the Jangalee Meye comes from? Google Maps doesn’t know, spitting out images of rainforests and jungles from all across the world. Jangal is the name of the small Bangladeshi village Abbu comes from, a place with rice paddy fields to the horizon and bamboo bridges crossing canals. When I was a child and Mom would tell me I was acting wildly, jungli, I thought I was simply being my Father’s Daughter, a daughter of the jungle. What else would someone from the village of Jangal be called?

Adults would ask, What village is your father from? And I would proudly respond, Jangal .

But what is the name of the Jungle?

A little more hesitant: Jangal is the name . “Who’s on First?” and on and on. To the point, I wondered if my Abbu lived in the Jungle like Mowgli, catching fish with his bare hands and whistling with reeds. And maybe, he just couldn’t spell. Anyway, which even came first, the Jangal or the Jungle?

The easiest way to find Jangal on Google Maps is west of Rajabari, the “King’s House”—south of Fatehpur, “Victorious Lands”–and along the banks of the Ader Khaal. The roads, you can see through the Satellite view, are brown dirt and the trees fiercely verdant; the squares of the farmed fields chartreuse stalks of rice and yellow-flowered mustard grass. These couldn’t have been taken during the wet monsoon season—these fields would have been flooded in blue. The only photo you can find on the map appears after clicking the red star marking the Jangal Cemetery—“1 review, 5 stars.”

Do you see the white brick wall around a grave? Abbu asks me excitedly. That is your Dada’s grave. The lush greenery around it in the graveyard is wildly overgrown.

Jungle comes from Jangal, from the ancient Indian language Prakrit, and pronounced /jaṁgala/, which means “rough, waterless place.” But Abbu’s Jangal was so green—with ponds and canals and paddy fields immersed in ankle-high waters. When the British came to colonize, they dismissively referred to the jungli as an insult—the uneducated, the lowest class, the people raised by wolves. But how can it be an insult to hold the fierce wildness of nature in the origin of your being?

My Abbu’s Jungli was full of hot-tempered rage. Mom would say, exasperated, You are hot headed just like your Abbu . I wondered if wild just came with the terrain, or if it was indeed, in my veins. This Jungli Meye is feisty; it’s a backhanded compliment to be worn proudly. This kind of wild won’t stand down for anything.

When Abbu was a child, he watched a non-Bengali politician who wanted to do away with the Bangla language get beat up by the villagers in the Jangal market. Abbu remembered that when the famines of the 1960s arrived in Jangal, his family would feed the poor leftover rice water. Later, from Los Angeles, he would watch as the 1971 Liberation War unfolded, and would cook at fundraisers at UCLA to raise money for medicine.

Is it possible that the liberation of this land that I can only touch through screens is the same jungli that courses through my veins? Jangal is a homeland I can only see through satellite images and maps through the internet. In the postscript to the survival narrative, the Jungli remains unshackled, the wildness of the Jangal unbounded by Borders.

by Fariha Róisín

(For my ancestors) In the year 1971, the Pakistani army invaded Bangladesh, committing genocide of three million Bangladeshis, in the space of less than a year.

Depression makes sense when you hear about the brutal circus that would one day decay the land where your parents were birthed—people born to lush green hills— and that in the space of a decade and a half find it split, spilled through with shrapnel.

In September 1971 my father, at sixteen, would witness the aftermath of a bomb blast in a shopping center called Baitul Muharram, the largest mosque complex in Dhaka. When I would eventually write to ask him about the details of his experience, he would write back: “It was the first time I saw burnt human body parts from my bedroom window.”

More than forty years later, he can detail things with such straight lucidity. His fact-loving mind, monomaniacal, the professor in him, has perhaps sublimated the psychology of war, and that of his experience, diluting it down to gritty facts, the mechanics of the situation. Not the horrors or the emotional weight of the pain.

I forget that my parents have smelled death, but in an impossible way. Their intolerable reality is that they have lived with the cruel abstraction of what war does to your body and what it does to your mind. How you have to compartmentalize your traumas by reconciling that the striking fecundity that once existed in a land you called your own has been slowly displaced through acts of criminality.

That the plushness of the green palm trees that used to calm you has now been overtaken by the excruciating sounds of explosions, sprawling debris, and that after a while you begin to wait for the objects shaped like death, sedately, as the gibbous moon sits above you—the only light that’s left in your darkness. That as you float on the lonely rooftops, watching the rage beneath you, the buildings that once stood before you have disappeared like a shadow.

three million people dead in 1971, in one place, dead in the space of less than a year. Did you even know that was a possibility before i told you?

400,000 women raped as a result of the genocidal tactic of war. say it with me again. 400,000 women raped.

but no history books, or sweet jeremiads about the tragedy of human life, or “never again,” just an, “oh, that really happened?” maybe a soft, soft gush, a momentary pang. but soon the memory oozes out, and those bodies remain nameless, cold and dead beneath the wretched soil. forgotten. a terrible end.

they were not known and never will be known. in a grave, on land, pillaged. a land once known as the cultural epicenter, vanished famished of its utility, plundered with miles of skin, more than it knows what to do with. they were not known and never will be known. and as i sit here, i mourn them, in this storm.

where did the 400,000 women go? where did they disappear? are they just a dead memory?

remember us, like you’d remember white death. remember us with no guilt. just remember that we lost so much more than what you’ve afforded us to lose.

From HOW TO CURE A GHOST Poems by Fariha Róisín and Illustrations by Monica Ramos Text © 2019 Fariha Róisín. Illustrations © 2019 Monica Ramos. Used by permission of Abrams Image, an imprint of ABRAMS, New York. All rights reserved.

I lived in the future: confronting the wounds of war, by mikail khan.

March 26, 1971 remains one of the most significant dates in the inception of Bangladesh. Our families are framed and bound by the Liberation War. Growing up, stories of the Mukti Bahini, “Freedom Fighters,” were the stories that raised and invigorated us.

Yet certain stories were missing from the narrative that the post-war generation was told, namely how transgender Bangladeshis were impacted by the war. Such non-disclosures affected me as I came into my transmasculine identity and queerness from a very young age. People often ask me what it was like growing up in Bangladesh. Truth is, I was made to maintain a cloak of silence for most of my time there. Because the present didn’t belong to me, I lived in the future. It was a strange feeling to wake up to each day: to mourn my own death while I was still alive.

I fell for the lie that was the gender binary for a large portion of my youth in Bangladesh. The lie seemed to work until it didn’t. I could not simply stop being trans. Now I largely attribute the sustained violence and the distorted cultural teachings I was forced to absorb, to our collective failure to reckon with our historical wounds.

For years, trans people have been marginalized within Bangladesh because of the idea that anything not accessible to mainstream society is damaging to the prospect of liberation. But we’ve learned from history that this gradual approach towards freedom has been a failure—because when not everyone has the same rights, the rights of everyone become incredibly delicate.

We have all witnessed the seismic shifts as a result of the Liberation War. Yet we have to meet this current moment with a more critical visioning of what’s at stake. We must step into a radical re-imagination of ourselves and our worlds as Bangladeshis. And we must wrestle with what is possibly the most essential question: What are we going to gift to future Bangladeshi generations? What traumas and harms are we going to render obsolete for our younger counterparts? How will we set them up to embrace vulnerability over isolation so that our spaces are saturated with multiple liberatory ways of being and relating with one another?

Maybe someday we will live in a Bangladesh where, as trans people, we can be celebrated for being ourselves, and that too, in a non-patronizing way. Maybe someday we can enjoy the riches of life outside of the margins of life, outside of the marginalization that we faced, outside of the low wages and dehumanizing labor that we’re expected to be excited for. Maybe someday we will reach a point where saying someone is trans wouldn’t cause a rupture—or, if it did, maybe it would still be alright. Liberation might elude us now but tomorrow, we can choose to run faster and stretch our arms farther. I am certain of it.

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Ushshi Seraphim (formerly Rahman) is a creative and polymath octopus lady born and raised in Bangladesh, made anew as an immigrant residing in New York City. She spends her inner life largely in contemplation and in her outer world is better known for being a plus size pioneer whose words and images have been featured in Nylon , Refinery29 , Bustle , 12th Street Journal , Cleaver Magazine , Caravel , and many more. You can follow her on Instagram (@ ushshi ) to peek into her journey spiraling towards consciousness.

Ayesha Islam is a Bangladeshi-American Muslim writer and public servant from Queens, New York. She is an Open City fellow with the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and currently works for the Urban Institute, an economic and social policy research organization dedicated to developing evidence-based insights that improve people’s lives and strengthen communities. She was also a former NYC Urban Fellow for the New York City Department of Small Business Services, and previously served on the executive board of a nonprofit organization serving Muslim youth. Ayesha studied Political Science, Creative Writing, and Middle Eastern Studies/Arabic at Bryn Mawr College.

Zubair Ahmed , born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh, won the Diversity Visa Lottery to come to the US in 2005 with his family. He graduated as a first-generation college student from Stanford, where he studied engineering and creative writing. He is the author of City of Rivers (McSweeney’s Poetry Series) and Ashulia , a chapbook (Tavern Books). His works have appeared in Poetry Magazine , The Believer , Tin House , Poetry Daily , and Poem-a-Day , among others.

Jennifer Chowdhury is a journalist and writer reporting on gender issues in immigrant communities with a special focus on the Bangladeshi diaspora. She recently spent two years in Bangladesh covering the Rohingya refugee crisis and consulting for the United Nations World Food Programme. Her work can be found in The Washington Post , The New York Times , Guardian , NPR and others.

Tanzila “Taz” Ahmed is a political strategist, storyteller, and artist based in Los Angeles. She creates at the intersection of counternarratives and culture-shifting as a South Asian American Muslim second-generation woman. She’s turned out over 500,000 Asian American voters, recorded five years of the award winning the Good Muslim Bad Muslim podcast and makes Muslim VDay cards annually. Her essays are published in the anthologies, New Moons, Pretty Bitches, Whiter, Good Girls Marry Doctors, Love Inshallah, and in numerous online publications.

Fariha Róisín is an Australian-Canadian writer, editor and multi-disciplinary artist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times , Al Jazeera , The Guardian , Vice , Village Voice and others. Previously, she has co-written a self-care column for The Hairpin , an astrology column for them and was the writer-at-large and culture editor for The Juggernaut . From 2012 to 2016 she co-hosted the podcast Two Brown Girls.She is the founder of Studio Ānanda, a space of cultivation and archive for radical, anti-colonial wellness. She has published How To Cure A Ghost (Abrams 2019), Being In Your Body (Abrams 2019) and Like A Bird (Unnamed Press 2020) which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR , Globe and Mail , Harper’s Bazaar , a must-read by Buzzfeed News and received a starred review by the Library Journal. Her first work of non-fiction is forthcoming and entitled Who Is Wellness For? On Radical Wellness (HarperWave, Spring 2022).

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Independence Day of Bangladesh – March 26, 2025

The Independence Day of Bangladesh is celebrated every year on March 26. It is the national holiday of Bangladesh that commemorates the country’s independence from Pakistan in 1971. On the morning of March 26, 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan, which were known at the time as East Pakistan and West Pakistan, respectively. The day is characterized by parades, speeches, fairs, and ceremonial events to commemorate that historic day in 1971.

History of Independence Day of Bangladesh

During the Partition of India on August 14, 1947, Pakistan gained independence from Britain and became separated from India. After this, the area now known as Bangladesh was referred to as East Bengal but later called East Pakistan.

However, in 1970, the country was led by President Yahya Khan, from the minority West Pakistan region. After the general elections, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was from East Pakistan (Bangladesh), won the elections. The government refused to hand over power to Rahman.

This led to a demand for independence by the people of East Pakistan. The East Pakistan government began arresting army personnel who were from East Pakistan, leading to forced disappearances. On the night of March 25, 1971, the Pakistan Army declared “Operation Searchlight,” a military operation that was essentially Bengali genocide, leading to approximately 3,000,000 Bengalis being killed indiscriminately.

Finally, on the morning of March 26, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared the independence of East Pakistan from West Pakistan. Unfortunately, the story didn’t end there. For nine months following that day, a liberation war raged between both regions, leading to many people dying. The war, which became known as the “Bangladesh War of Independence,” finally came to an end on December 16, 1971. Pakistan finally surrendered.

In Bangladesh, independence celebrations are characterized by parades, speeches, fairs, and ceremonial events designed to commemorate the country’s liberation. On the morning of the day, a thirty-one gun salute is shot.

Independence Day of Bangladesh timeline

Bangladesh gains independence from Pakistan on March 26.

The Bangladesh War of Independence comes to an end nine months after it begins.

The annual Independence Day Award is instituted.

Bangladesh marks the golden jubilee of independence from Pakistan.

Independence Day of Bangladesh FAQ s

What language is spoken in bangladesh.

Bengali is the official language of Bangladesh, though other indigenous languages are spoken, such as Bishnupriya Manipuri and Chakma.

Who is the president of Bangladesh?

Abdul Hamid, elected in 2013, is the current president of Bangladesh.

What status is Bangladesh as a country?

The United Nations classifies Bangladesh as a least developed country.

How to Celebrate Independence Day of Bangladesh

Join the festivities.

If you’re from Bangladesh or have Bengali heritage, don’t hesitate to join in on the festivities. This can be done in the comfort of your home or from any part of the world by streaming important events or wishing your fellow countrymen happy independence on the internet!

Learn more about Bangladesh

Expand your world knowledge by learning more about Bangladesh, its history, culture, languages, and religion. The more we learn about one another, the more peaceful our world becomes.

Post on social media

Celebrate by posting a picture of the Bangladesh national flag and using the hashtag #independencedaybangladesh, so the rest of the world knows what we’re celebrating.

5 Important Facts About Bangladesh

Huge population.

In terms of population size, Bangladesh ranks number eight in the entire world, with over 160 million inhabitants!

The six seasons

Instead of the typical four seasons, Bangladesh has six seasons, namely: Grisma (summer), Barsa (rainy season), Sarat (autumn), Hemanta (cool season), Shhit (winter), and Basanta (spring).

Royal Bengal Tiger

The country’s national animal, the Royal Bengal Tiger, has a roar so loud it can be heard from three kilometers away!

In Bangladesh, smiling too often is viewed as a sign of immaturity, so people rarely smile.

World’s largest mangrove forest

Bangladesh is home to the world’s largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans National Park.

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Independence.

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Conflict resolution

This Independence Day and the events that followed are a reminder that conflict must be resolved peacefully. War isn’t the only way.

This day is even more special as a result of the eventual peace reached between Bangladesh and Pakistan. Every war must come to an end, and peace must reign.

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Independence Day of Bangladesh: Engaging the Youth in History

Independence Day of Bangladesh, celebrated on March 26th, holds profound significance in the nation’s history and identity. It marks the day when the people of Bangladesh achieved liberation from Pakistani rule after a valiant struggle for independence. The journey to freedom was not without immense sacrifice, as the nation endured a devastating war that culminated in the emergence of an independent Bangladesh in 1971.

This momentous day is a time of remembrance and reflection, honoring the bravery and resilience of the countless individuals who fought for the country’s autonomy. It serves as a reminder of the importance of unity, patriotism, and the unyielding spirit of the Bangladeshi people.

Independence Day in Bangladesh is a national celebration filled with various ceremonies, parades, and cultural events. It brings together citizens from all walks of life to pay tribute to the nation’s heroes, reaffirm their commitment to the principles of freedom and democracy, and look forward to a brighter future for the country.

An Overview of Independence Day of Bangladesh

Independence Day of Bangladesh is an annual celebration observed on March 26th. It commemorates the country’s liberation from Pakistani rule in 1971 after a hard-fought Liberation War. The day holds immense historical significance, symbolizing the unwavering spirit and sacrifices of the Bangladeshi people.

Various events, including parades, cultural programs, and flag-hoisting ceremonies, are organized nationwide to honor the freedom fighters and pay tribute to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the nation’s independence. It serves as a time of reflection, instilling national pride and reinforcing the values of democracy, unity, and the determination of the Bangladeshi people.

The History of Independence Day of Bangladesh

Pakistan obtained independence from Great Britain and was split off from India on August 14, 1947, throughout the Partition of India. Following this, the region that is now Bangladesh was first referred to as East Bengal and then as East Pakistan.

President Yahya Khan, a native of the underrepresented West Pakistan area, took over as president of the nation in 1970. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, a candidate from East Pakistan (Bangladesh), won the general elections. Rahman was not allowed to take over by the administration.

People in East Pakistan began to call for independence as a result of this. Armed forces members from East Pakistan started being detained by the government there, which resulted in forced disappearances. On the evening of March 25, 1971, the Pakistan Army launched “Operation Searchlight,” a military campaign that was effectively a genocide against the Bengalis and resulted in the indiscriminate killing of almost 3,000,000 Bengalis.

Finally, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman proclaimed East Pakistan’s independence from West Pakistan early on March 26. Unfortunately, there was still more to the story. Following that day, both areas engaged in a nine-month liberation struggle that claimed numerous lives. On December 16, 1971, the conflict, which came to be known as the “Bangladesh War of Independence,” was officially over. Pakistan eventually gave up.

What is the significance of Independence Day for Bangladesh?

Independence Day holds immense significance for Bangladesh as it marks the country’s liberation from Pakistani rule on March 26, 1971. This day symbolizes the triumph of the Bangladeshi people’s unwavering spirit, courage, and unity during the nine-month-long Liberation War.

It is a time of national reflection, remembrance, and gratitude towards the countless freedom fighters and martyrs who sacrificed their lives for independence. Independence Day reinforces the core values of democracy, freedom, and self-determination, shaping the nation’s identity and pride.

It also serves as a platform to reaffirm the commitment to progress, prosperity, and social harmony. Celebrating Independence Day can also inspire present and future generations to uphold the ideals of the Liberation War and build a stronger, united, and democratic Bangladesh.

How has Independence Day evolved over the years in Bangladesh?

Over the years, Independence Day in Bangladesh has evolved into a significant national celebration, deepening its historical and cultural significance. Initially marked by somber remembrances of the Liberation War, the day has transformed into a vibrant and joyous occasion. The festivities now include elaborate parades, cultural programs, and patriotic displays across the country.

It has become a symbol of national pride and unity, promoting a sense of identity and belonging among the citizens. Moreover, Independence Day has seen increased participation from various age groups and communities, fostering a collective appreciation for the sacrifices made during the struggle for freedom. The day also serves as a reminder of the nation’s resilience and progress, as Bangladesh continues to develop and strengthen its democratic values.

Bangladesh’s Independence Day is a day for more than only commemorating the country’s founding. It must also be viewed as a moment of sorrow for the unimaginable toll the Pakistani army inflicted on East Pakistan before to and throughout the period of war. It will always be celebrated as a national holiday with patriotic music and a special admiration for the national flag as well as everything that it stands for.

But this vanity also conceals a great deal of suffering. There are still many people who are killed and raped. It cannot be hidden or ignored. It endures. As a result, we must recall and acknowledge that the way and what we remember are choices.

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The significance of Bangladesh's Independence Day and Victory Day

Independence Day, March 26, is the day that Bangladesh was declared to be an independent, sovereign nation. This marked the beginning of Bangladesh as a nation, at the onset of the Liberation War of 1971. It was declared after the brutal March 25 crackdown of the occupying Pakistani army on innocent civilians.

On the other hand, Victory Day, December 16, is the day the Pakistani military surrendered before the Indian Army and the Mukti Bahini of Bangladesh won the Liberation War.

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The two days are different because while we declared independence on March 26, we were still under West Pakistani occupation, and would have to fight them off to free ourselves. On December 16, the country had successfully done so and gained liberation from West Pakistan, and were free to rule our own sovereign state.

Both days are equally important in Bangladesh's history. To understand why, we need to take a closer look at history.

Historical context

In 1947, the Partition of India took place and the subcontinent was divided into India and Pakistan along religious lines. Allotting all Muslim-majority areas to Pakistan led to the state of Pakistan being composed of two provinces - East and West Pakistan, separated by India in between. While most Bangalis - the majority ethnic group in East Pakistan - shared the same religion as that of West Pakistan, they had a different culture and heritage and spoke a different language.

Soon after partition, an economic disparity between the two partys of Pakistan started to take shape, and East Pakistanis faced oppression by the West Pakistani ruling elite. In 1948, the government tried to establish Urdu as the sole state language, which would deny the demand of the people to make Bangla, the mother tongue of the majority in East Pakistan, the state language. The Language Movement, which reached its peak on February 21, 1952, planted the first seeds of the sentiments of a separate Bangali national identity.

March 26: Independence Day

From 1963 till Independence Day in 1971, various political parties, primarily the Awami League, led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, campaigned for regional autonomy of East Pakistan.

In the Pakistani general elections held on December 7, 1970, the Awami League, led by Sheikh Mujib, won 288 seats out of 300 seats in the National Assembly of Pakistan. Despite the overwhelming victory, the Awami League was not allowed to form a government by the Pakistani military administration led by General Yahya Khan. The country erupted in protest at this blatant injustice.

On March 7, 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made his historic speech at the Ramna Race Course, calling the general populace of East Pakistan to resist the West Pakistani administration. He declared that the Awami League would collect taxes and form committees in every neighbourhood to organise resistance. it was during this speech when he famously said, "this time, the struggle is for our liberation. This time, the struggle is for our independence!"

Weeks of civil disobedience and political instability followed. While the Awami League was increasingly gaining more public support in East Pakistan, West Pakistance was flying troops and arms, preparing for a military crackdown.

On March 25, Yahya Khan declared military action and ordered the Pakistaniarmy to arrest Mujib. The Pakistan Army launched Operation Searchlight and killed thousands of innocent people, set fire to houses, and looted businesses on the night of March 25, 1971.

Before being detained by the Pakistan Army that same night, Sheikh Mujib declared Bangladesh as an indepdendent nation.

Independence Day marks the declaration of our independence and the beginning of a nine-month-long war of liberation till the victory on December 16, 1971. We commemorate the day by observing a public holiday and paying tribute to the millions of martyrs at the National Memorial at Savar.

December 16: Victory Day

On this day, the Pakistani army surrendered, and we won the war. We commemorate the Pakistani Instrument of Surrender, where the commander of the Pakistani Forces, General AAK Niazi, surrendered to Lieutenant General Jagjit Singh Aurora, Joint Commander of Indian and Bangladeshi Forces, at the Ramna Race Course in Dhaka, ending the nine-month Bangladesh Liberation War and genocide of the Bangladeshi people.

This marked the official end of the war and paved the way for the new nation of Bangladesh,

Two days before their surrender, however, on December 14, 1971, the West Pakistani army murdered many intellectuals including university professors, doctors, journalists, writers, politicians, artists, and activists. This was a strategy to stunt the development of our young nation. We observe Martyred Intellectuals Day on December 14 to mourn the assassination of Bangladeshi intellectuals.

The transition to complete victory and peace was not smooth and immediate. Even after the defeat, Pakistani authorities were delaying the release of Sheikh Mujib from solitary confinement in Pakistan, evoking tension, uncertainty, and a sense of incompleteness due to the absence of the leader of the newly liberated nation. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman finally returned to an independent Bangladesh on January 10, 1972, and was engulfed by the embrace of his people.

After nine months of war, the genocide of around three million, displacement of another ten millions, and rape of 200,000 to 400,000 women, victory came at a heavy cost. The struggle was long and haird, marked by many milestones, each with loss of life and immense suffering, which reverberate in the lives of many descendants of our freedom fighters to this day. To pay our proper dues to the independent nation we live in today as citizens, the least we can do is understand and recognise the importance of each milestone leading to our eventual victory and observe the days accordingly.

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Independence Day is a significant day for every country. In this post, we will explore the importance of Independence Day for Bangladesh, a day that marks its freedom from oppression.

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Paragraph On Independence Day Of Bangladesh 100 Words

Independence Day in Bangladesh is observed on March 26th every year.

It commemorates the day in 1971 when Bangladesh declared independence from Pakistan, starting a nine-month long war for freedom.

This day holds deep emotional significance for Bangladeshis, reminding them of the sacrifices made for their nation’s birth.

Across the country, people celebrate with flag-raising ceremonies, cultural programs, and the singing of the national anthem.

Monuments like the Jatiyo Smriti Soudho are visited to pay respect to the martyrs. It’s a day of reflection, pride, and unity for Bangladesh, reminding its citizens of their resilient journey to sovereignty.

Paragraph On Independence Day Of Bangladesh 150 Words

Independence Day in Bangladesh, celebrated on March 26th, is a powerful testament to the nation’s struggle for self-determination and freedom.

In 1971, the people of Bangladesh took a decisive stand against oppression and declared independence from Pakistan, leading to a nine-month-long Liberation War.

This conflict, though arduous, paved the way for the birth of a new nation.

Every year on this day, the streets of Bangladesh come alive with the vibrant green and red of its flag.

Cultural programs, songs, and dances echo the rich heritage and the resilient spirit of its people.

Memorials, like the Jatiyo Smriti Soudho, see throngs of people paying homage to the brave souls who laid down their lives for a free Bangladesh.

The day serves not only as a reminder of the sacrifices made but also as a unifying force, binding the nation in pride, reflection, and hope for a brighter future.

Paragraph On Independence Day Of Bangladesh 200 Words

Independence Day in Bangladesh is a very special day, celebrated every year on March 26th. On this day in 1971, Bangladesh said it wanted to be its own country, separate from Pakistan. This started a big fight that lasted nine months, and many brave people died for their country.

Now, every year on this day, people in Bangladesh remember those who fought for freedom. The streets are decorated with the green and red national flag. People sing songs, dance, and have programs that show the culture of Bangladesh. There’s a place called Jatiyo Smriti Soudho where many go to remember the heroes of the war.

In schools, teachers tell students about the history of Independence Day and what it means to be free. There are speeches, plays, and lots of activities that help people understand what happened back then.

It’s a day for everyone in Bangladesh to feel proud of their country and remember how hard people worked to be free. It’s also a time to think about how they can make their country even better in the future. The whole day is filled with joy, respect, and hope for what’s to come.

Paragraph On Independence Day Of Bangladesh 250 Words

Independence Day in Bangladesh, celebrated on March 26th, holds profound importance in the heart of every Bangladeshi. It marks the day in 1971 when the country, after enduring immense hardships and witnessing countless sacrifices, declared itself independent from Pakistan. This courageous declaration was not without its consequences; it ignited the fierce Liberation War, which lasted nine intense months.

The resilience, valor, and spirit of the Bangladeshi people during this period is a testament to their indomitable will. Every year, this day serves as a poignant reminder of the price of freedom and the unwavering determination of a nation to chart its own destiny.

Across Bangladesh, the day is commemorated with vibrant celebrations and solemn remembrances. Streets are filled with the national flag’s colors, green and red, symbolizing the land’s prosperity and the blood of the martyrs. Cultural events showcase the nation’s rich heritage, with songs, dances, and plays reiterating stories of bravery and unity. The Jatiyo Smriti Soudho, a national monument in Savar, becomes a focal point of homage, where thousands gather to pay their respects to the fallen heroes.

Educational institutions play a crucial role in ensuring the younger generation understands the gravity of the day.

Through speeches, debates, and history lessons, they instill a sense of national pride and responsibility in the youth.

As Bangladeshis worldwide reflect on their journey, Independence Day reinforces the values of unity, determination, and hope, propelling the nation forward into a promising future.

Essay on The Independence Day of Bangladesh

Introduction: Independence means the state of being independent or free. Independence day means the day on which the declaration of free Government is given. Independence day is a red letter day in the history of every nation. The 26th March 1971, on which the independence day of Bangladesh was declared, is regarded as our independence day. It is a red letter day in our national life.

Background: In 1947, Pakistan emerged as a Muslim state with its two wings-East and West Pakistan. Immediately after the creation of Pakistan, the people of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) realized the unfair, unfriendly and suppressing attitude of West Pakistan dominated Pakistani rulers. In 1948, Mr. Jinnah, the first Governor General of Pakistan declared at Dhaka that Urdu alone would be the state language of Pakistan. The Pakistan attempt of imposing Urdu upon the Bengalis led the language Movement started. In 1969, a large-scale mass revolution started against the dictatorial rule of Ayub Khan, the then President of Pakistan. But the west Pakistani rulers tried to stop the voice of general mass by bullets. During the undemocratic and oppressive rule of Ayub Khan, Shaik Mujibur Rahman- the uncompromising champion of Bangalee nationalism, announced his famous six points which terribly shook the throne of Pindi. Agartala conspiracy case was framed against Shaikh Mujubur Rahman Mujubur Rahman. A tremendous mass movement started demanding the release of Sk. Mujib. At last the powerful dictator had to submit to the awful majesty of the people and abdicate in favor of Yahya Khan. Yahya Khan held a general election in Pakistan, The Awami won a sweeping victory in the election and, therefore, had the legal right to form the government. Mr. Bhutto stood as an obstacle in the way of transferring power to the Awami League, the Majority party of the country. The ruling Junta started a dialogue with the Shaikh and his party leaders. But under cover of negotiation and settlement, they hatched a conspiracy to wipe out Bangladeshi nationalism once for all. On the might of March 25, 1971, the barbarous Pak Army launched an inhuman attack on the innocent, unarmed and peace-loving citizens of Bangladesh. On that night Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declared independence of Bangladesh thought he was arrested on that very night: From that night struggle and fighting between Bangladeshi freedom fighters and west Pakistani soldiers started. The Pak Army killed Bagalees like cats and doge, burnt their houses, looted their property, raped their women folk and so on. But no bullet could subdue the indomitable spirit of Bangladeshi nationalism. After nine months hard struggle, Bangladesh emerged as an independent state.

Preparation and Celebration/ How the day is observed/ Special program: The 26th March is celebrated as the Independence Day. People anxiously wait to observe the day. On this day we pay rich tributes to the memory of the martyrs who laid down their lives for the sake of our independence. The Govt. different organization and institutions chalk out detailed programmers to celebrate the day. Every year, the day is observed in a befitting manner. throughout the country. The national flag is hoisted in all important offices, private and public students gather together and hoist the national flag solemnly. In town and cities, the national flag is hoisted ceremonially in the midst of jubilation of innumerable people with crackers, bombs, and drams. Various units of, the armed force parade before the spectators. Educational Institutions and offices remain closed. Houses and all important places are well decorated. Dhaka, the capital of our country, takes a festive look. After mid-day, seminars are held in most of the educational institutions. Special prayers are offered for the martyrs in all mosques, temples cultural organizations hold functions to commemorate the day. In the evening all the houses, important private and government buildings are illuminated. Radio and Television centers issue special programme. The beggars are given alms and fed. Sweets are distributed among the children.

Other activities/Games and sports: As it is a cheerful day in the history of Bangladesh, various kinds of games and sports are held to celebrate this day. Generally games like football, volleyball, cricket, boat-race etc. are held in different places including thana and district towns. The people attend cultural functions and theatrical performances arranged for the occasion.

Conclusion: The 26th of March, 1971 signaled the start of the liberation war of Bangladesh. This day reminds the people who sacrificed their valuable lives. The day is a symbol of our determination to survive as a nation of self-respecting people. It inspires us with hopes and makes us united and instills into our heart the firm belief that Bangladesh has come to stay. i) So the 26th March will be remembered forever as the independence day in the history of Bangladesh. ii) It is a day of great joy and rejoicing.

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26th March is our Independence Day. It is our biggest state festival and a public holiday. But the independence of Bangladesh is not achieved overnight. Once this territory had, been a colony of Great Britain for about 190 years. It had again been trapped by the Pakistanis. The Pakistanis had exploited Bangladesh for about 25 years. Bengalees had become crippled economically, physically and mentally by the ill treatment of the Pakistanis. However, we achieved our independence from the despotic and oppressive Pakistani occupation forces through a bloody war of nine months. It was achieved at the cost of a sea of blood, and loss of chastity of our mothers and daughters. Our countrymen had to undergo a tremendously oppressive time during the war.

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However, the heroic sons of the soil fought bravely and we ultimately gained freedom making than surrender to us and the Independence Day is celebrated with great enthusiasm and fervour across the country.

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The day begins with 31 gunshots. Early in the morning, the President and the. Prime Minister on behalf of the nation offered floral wreath at the National Memorial as a token of love and honor to the martyred heroic sons of the Liberation War. Various social and cultural organizations and almost all the educational institutions arrange different kinds of programs on this day. Our long cherished freedom, achieved at a great price will be a real one only when we will ensure economic and social freedom for all. On this day, we should pledge that we will protect our freedom against all evil powers unitedly at any cost.

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Bangladesh is an independent country. The 26th March is our Independence Day because on this day in 1971 our independence was declared. The war of liberation commenced on 26th march in 1971. On the midnight of March 25,1971 Pakistani army fell upon the innocent people and killed them. On the night of 26th March, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested and was taken to Pakistan. Just before his arrest, he declared the independence of Bangladesh. After that time, We celebrate this day every year with great pleasure and joy with colorful festivity. We celebrated this day with discussion, meeting, seminars, and military parades.

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This day is a public holiday. Our national flag is kept flying on top of every private and public houses and offices, schools, colleges and universities. We offer wreath to the victory monument. Government offices and buildings are well decorated on this day. Many cultural programmes and festivals are held throughout the country. People from every walk of life attend those programmes with great excitement. Bangladesh is our pride. Our independence day is our greatest achievement as a nation.

Independence Day of Bangladesh (26th March) Essay

Fress is the birthright of man. But freedom does not come down on a nation. A nation must rise to achieve it. Bangladesh experienced about 190 long British colonial rule that ended up in 1947. Bangladesh became a province of Pakistan named East Pakistan. However, the deprivation and exploitation of Pakistani rulers created grievances and resentment among the people of East Pakistan. This time they rose for the complete break up with Pakistan and voiced for an Independent nation.

The Most Glorious and the greatest achievement for Bangladesh in the last century has been its birth as an independent nation. Bangladesh won a flag, an identity and occupied a place on the world’s map. Bangladesh became a free and independent nation and stood upright and with dignity and honor among the nations of the world. But Bangladesh had to pay a hefty price for its independence. About 3 million lives have been sacrificed in the war of Independence.

Operation Searchlight

Operation Searchlight was a planned genocide accompanied by the Pakistani army beginning March 25, 1971, through which they tried to suppress the Bengali nationalist demonstration that took place in March 1971 and earlier. This genocide has directed by the order of the West Pakistani ruler, which was followed by Operation Blitz in November of 1970. The real purpose of the operation was to capture all significant cities between March 26 and eliminate political and military opponents within a month.

Declaration of Independence

On 7th March 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman while addressing a huge crowd in the historic racecourse ground. He declared that the struggle of this time is struggling for freedom. The struggle of this time is struggling for independence. On 26 Major Ziaur Rahman, an officer in the Pakistan army declared the independence of Bangladesh. On behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio center. From then, students, farmers, laborers, all and sundry joined the liberation war and after taking guerilla training fought with the Pakistan occupation forces. Colonel M.A.G Osmani made the Chief commander of liberation forces and the country divided into eleven sectors under eleven army officers to conduct the war.

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Let’s check out Bangladesh Independence Day history. At midnight on March 25, 1971, the Pakistani occupation force jumped with the modern war on the unarmed Bengalis. The genocide of the country was started by the Pakistani occupation forces to sink the freedom of Bangladeshis. Even the legal rights of the outcome of the national election. At that time, the commanders of Jagannath Hall of Dhaka University, Iqbal Hall, Rokeya Hall, teachers’ home, EPR headquarters of Peelkhana, and Rajarbagh police line together at the same time killing atrocities and killing innumerable unarmed patriots and the best children of the country.

The Pak army dug several mass graves in the university area, and hundreds of bodies buried the soil and carried the bulldozer on it. Thousands of bodies were buried in different places throughout the city. The shape of the deceased floated in old Dhaka’s Buriganga. In the nine-month war, on December 16th, Bangladesh got independence by sacrificing three million people’s lives.

The background

On March 25, 1971, the then West Pakistan government attacked the innocent people of East Pakistan (present Bangladesh). In many places in Dhaka, there was firing; brutal torture was done on women in many places and in many places planned killings were planned.

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Operation Searchlight was a planned genocide conducted by the Pakistani army beginning March 25, 1971, through which they tried to suppress the Bengali nationalist movement that took place in March 1971 and earlier. This genocide was directed by the order of the West Pakistani ruler, which was followed by Operation Blitz in November of 1970. The real purpose of the operation was to capture all significant cities between March 26 and eliminate political and military opponents within a month.

Declaration of Independence

On March 25, 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was arrested by Pakistani occupation forces. It said that, shortly before the arrest, on March 25, 12 (i.e., in the first hour of 26th March), he signed the declaration of independence of Bangladesh which sent to Chittagong in the transmitter of the then E.P.R.

The declaration is as follows: “ That may be my last message, from today Bangladesh is independent. I call upon the people of Bangladesh, wherever you live, with all your support, continue to oppose the occupation army. Let the last Pakistani military out of the soil of Bangladesh and continue your war till the final victory is achieved.”

On 26th March, Belal Mohammad, Abul Kasem and some of the officials of Chittagong Betar Kendra and Local Awami League leader MA Hannan first preached the Miking declaration of independence of Sheikh Mujib. Later on March 27, the Pakistani army’s Major General Ziaur Rahman declared independence from Chittagong’s Kalurghat radio station.

The declaration of the declaration is as follows: “ I, Major Zia, the provincial commander-in-chief of Bangladesh Liberation Army, declare independence of Bangladesh on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

I also declare that we have formed a sovereign and lawful government under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman which is committed to continuing by the law and the constitution. “

Declaration of Independence of Bangladesh

The celebration of Independence Day

With the sunrise, national flags were hoisted in government, semi-government, autonomous and privately-owned buildings. From the morning till night, the main roads and roadways of the city decorated with national flags and different colors. In the national stadium, students of the educational institutions presented rallies, parades, displays, and athletics. There are public holidays on that day. The circular extends the special supplement. Radio and TV channels broadcast special events.

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We received our independence in 1971 after a bloody war that killed 3 million people. The independence of our country was declared on the 26th March 1971 A.D. Hence the 26th March is observed as our Independence Day. Every year the Independence Day is observed all over Bangladesh with due solemnity (72-7214) and honour. On this day the national flag is hoisted on all government buildings and offices. The President, the Prime Minister, the Chief of Army Staff, The Opposition Leader and different important and key personnel of the government place floral wreaths at National Mausoleum (109) at Savar in the morning. People of all walks of life also show respect to the martyrs of the war by placing flowers and floral wreaths at the National Mausoleum. Meetings, discussion programmes, seminars and cultural programmes and shows are organized all over the country to discuss and show the significance (679) of the day. Fairs and exhibitions are also held at different places on the occasion of the day. Newspapers and magazines bring out special issues. The TV and radio air special programmes highlighting the importance of the day.

Independence Day Paragraph & Essay For Students

Man is born to be free. When he loses his freedom, he starts protesting. To get the freedom, he can do anything even he can sacrifice his life. After the 200 years of British colonial rule, We Bangladeshi People became the ruthless victim of Barbarous Pakistani for 24 years. For the sake of independence, Bangladeshi people started the liberation war on March 26, 1971. After the nine-month bloody war, Independence is attained in exchange for three million lives. A new nation was born. A new country has emerged on the world map. Bangladesh is free and sovereign country now.26 march was the glorious day when the journey of independence started. This day is recognized as the Great Independence Day in Bangladesh History

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Bangladesh Independence History 1971

The dream of the independent country of Bangladesh started after 1947. In 1947 we become free from the British. In August 1947 India was divided into two different states namely India and Pakistan. British government divided these two countries for the sake of Religion. After that the then Pakistani Rules started the oppression of different aspects of life. It includes economic exploitation as well as Cultural exploitation. In the year of 1948, Pakistan’s First Government Mohammad Ali Jinnah declared that Urdu would be the only state language of Pakistan though most of the People of Bangladesh speak in the Bengali language. People of Bangladesh burst into the protest in 1952. The students violated the section 144. The Pakistani Invader fired on the procession. Rafiq, Salam, Barkat Jabbar had sacrificed their lives for the sake of mother tongue. After that. The Bengali Language gets recognition as state Language. Now, 21st February is celebrated internationally as mother language day.

In 1966 historical 6 points had been raised to demand freedom and ownership of Bangladesh. In order to prevent mass protests, the Pakistani ruling group has been operating on the independence of the people through military rule, tyranny, and persecution. In 1968, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Now the father of the nation of Bangladesh was arrested in a false and organized ‘Agartala conspiracy case’. Because of mass protection of Bangladeshi people, Pakistani Government was forced to leave Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

In the General Election of 1970, The Awami league won by the massive difference. The ruler of Pakistan couldn’t take this easy. They started claiming different things. Meanwhile, on 7 March 1971 Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman called a huge gathering at the Racecourse grounds of Dhaka. In the historic speech of the rally, he called for the ‘struggle of independence, the struggle for the liberation of this struggle, and the struggle for the liberation of this struggle’, whatever he has, jump to the war. Such a great call was awaited for the Bengali people so long ago.

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Operation Searchlight

On the dark night of March 25, the barbarous Pakistani Pashtun started a ruthless massacre of the unarmed and sleeping Bengalis. According to Asia Times, “Indians are bastards anyway”. In the meeting with the senior army officers, Yahya Khan declared: “Kill three million Bengalis, they will see our hands licked.” As planned, the Pakistani Army launched Operation Searchlight on March 25, which was aimed at crushing Bengali resistance. As part of this, the Bengali members of the military were disarmed, the students and intellectuals were destroyed and ordinary people have killed arbitrarily throughout Bangladesh.

On the night of 25 March, Bangabandhu was arrested and taken to West Pakistan. Before the arrest, on 26 March, he announced the independence of Bangladesh. In his absence, other organizers of the war of liberation formed a temporary Mujibnagar government and formed a strong movement against the Pak army. The united struggle of all the people, the all-around support of the friends, the positive role of the world media, in addition to the exchange of thirty lakh martyrs and the honor of two lakh mothers and sisters, Bangladesh finally became independent.

The objective of the War of Liberation was to achieve self-control and establish a non-communal, welfare-oriented, humanitarian, progressive independent democratic state. The freedom war started on 26th March 1971 and we gain our freedom on 16th December 1971. Independence of Bangladesh is declared on 26 March that’s’ why we called this day as an Independence day of Bangladesh or Shadhinota Dibosh And 16th December we got the victory. So it is victory day for Bangladesh or Bijoy Dibosh.

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26 March is celebrated as the Independent Day of Bangladesh because of this day, the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman officially declared the independence of Bangladesh after the Pakistan Army launched a brutal and barbaric and killed thousands of civilians on the night of 25 March 1971. The day marks the beginning of a nine-month-long war of liberation till the victory on 16th December 1971. This is a public holiday which is celebrated paying tribute to the millions of martyrs at the National Memorial at Savar. In addition, different national programs are organized to remember the day auspiciously military assault.

In the 1970 Pakistani general election under the military government of President Yahya Khan, the largest political party Awami League led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman won a clear majority in East Pakistan national seats as well as provincial assembly. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto conspired with Yahya Khan and changed their position, refusing to hand over power to Sheikh Mujib. Negotiations began but Sheikh Mujib was not trusted by the ruling West Pakistani leadership, having Agartala conspiracy case in vision. When it became clear that promises given earlier were not going to followed through, the whole nation of Bangla-speaking Muslims and Hindus of East Pakistan began a spirited struggle for independence, supported by the Indian government. On 7 March 1971, Sheikh Mujib gave his famous speech at the Ramna Racecourse where he called for a non-cooperation movement.

Authorities, mostly west Pakistani personnel rounded up Bangla-speaking armed forces officers, NCOs, and enlisted personnel. Forced disappearances went rampant. On the evening of 25 March in an interview with David Frost, Sheikh Mujib still called out openly for negotiation and a united Pakistan. That night the Pakistan Army spilled out to the streets killing and started Operation Searchlight. It was official, they were not ready for a peaceful transfer of political power to the Awami League led by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The Independence of Bangladesh was declared on 26 March 1971 by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Another declaration was read out on 27 March 1971, by Major Ziaur Rahman, on behalf of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Major Zia (who was also a BDF Sector Commander of Sector 1 and later of Sector 11) raised an independent Z Force brigade., Chittagong and the guerilla struggle officially began. The people of Bangladesh then took part in a war to get independence from Pakistan. Independence of Bangladesh was gained through a nine-month guerilla war against the Pakistan Army, and their collaborators including paramilitary Razakars which resulted in the death of about 3 million people, as per Awami league and Indian sources, in the Bangladesh War of Independence and Bangladesh Genocide. The BDF, later with military support from India defeated the Pakistan Army ending the war on 16 December 1971 after the Surrender of Pakistan.

Place Jatiyo Sriti Shoudho (National Martyr's Memorial) is located in Savar, about 35 km north-west of the capital, Dhaka. Anyone can reach there by road using CAR, CNG

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Bangladesh celebrates 50 years of independence

The 10-day grand celebration will end today following the celebration of the Independence and National Day with the attendance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in person as the guest of honour

The nation celebrates 50 years of its Independence and National Day today coinciding with the grand celebration of the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The grand celebration of the birth centenary of Bangabandhu and the golden jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence, which marked the physical attendance of five heads of states and governments and virtual attendance of other global leaders, started on March 17 at the National Parade Square in the presence of Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.

The 10-day grand celebration will end today following the celebration of the Independence and National Day with the attendance of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in person as the guest of honour.

Earlier, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering joined the grand celebration in person since March 17.

Marking the day, the government has taken elaborate programs maintaining the health guidelines in view of the global pandemic coronavirus.

On the occasion, President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina issued separate messages extending heartfelt greetings and warm felicitations to the countrymen living both home and abroad.

The National Memorial at Savar will be the main venue of the celebration of the day where President Md Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will place wreaths early in the morning as a mark of profound respect to the memories of the martyrs.

People from all walks of life, including families of Bir Shreshthas, war wounded freedom fighters, members of the diplomatic corps, leaders of different political parties, social, cultural and professional bodies, will also lay wreaths at the national memorial in the morning of the day.

The day’s programs will begin by heralding a 50-gun salute early in the morning as a mark of profound respect to the heroic struggle of this nation, which suffered a protracted subjugation under foreign rules from time to time till achieving their coveted Independence in 1971.

The national flag will be hoisted atop all government, semi-government, autonomous and private buildings with the rises of sun while all streets and important city intersections will be decorated with national and multi-coloured miniature flags and festoons.

Important buildings and establishments as well as city streets and islands will be illuminated with colourful lights.

National dailies will bring out special supplements while Bangladesh Betar, Bangladesh Television, private radio stations and television channels will air month-long special programs on Liberation War and highlighting the significance of the day.

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangla Academy, National Museum, Liberation War Museum, Bangladesh Shishu Academy, and other social and cultural organisations will arrange discussions, cultural programmes and sports competition while painting competition for children, essay and debate competitions will be organized virtually.

Liberation War based documentaries and movies will be screened at cinema halls across the country maintaining the health guidelines, including wearing face masks.

Reception will be accorded to freedom fighters and the members of martyred freedom fighters at city, zilla and upazila levels, while Bangladesh Postal Office will publish commemorating postal stamps.

Special prayers will be offered in all mosques, temples, churches and other places of worship across the country seeking divine blessings for the eternal peace of the departed souls of Father of the Nation, four national leaders, martyrs of the War of Liberation and all other patriotic sons of the soil.

Improved meals will be served to the inmates of hospitals, jails, old homes and orphanage centres to mark the day. The country’s all children’s parks and museums will remain open for all.

All children parks and museums will remain open for all in terms of maintaining health guidelines while neval ships of Bangladesh Navy and Coast Guard will be exhibited at Chittagong, Khulna, Mongla and Payra ports and the jetties of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) in the city’s Sadarghat, Pagla in Narayanganj, Barisal and Chandpur from 2pm until the sun sets.

The missions abroad will also celebrate the day through similar programs.

Different political parties including ruling Awami League as well as socio-cultural and professional organisations have also taken various programs to observe the day in a befitting manner.

Every year, the March 26 brings the most tragic reminiscence of the history’s blackest episode that heralded a nine-month bloody ordeal from the night of March 25, 1971, achieving the long-cherished independence on December 16 the same year at the cost of a sea of blood.

In the wake of the military crackdown, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who became the undisputed leader of the then Pakistan following the massive victory of his party, Awami League, in the 1970 general elections, declared the independence of Bangladesh through the then EPR (East Pakistan Rifles) wireless at 00-30 hours on March 26 (the night following March 25) in 1971 at his historic Road-32 residence at Dhanmondi.

The great leader also called upon the people to build up strong resistance against the Pakistani barbaric occupation forces.

The Pakistani military junta, in a bid to stop the legitimate movement of the Bangalees, arrested Bangabandhu on that night following his declaration of independence.

Later, Bangabandhu was taken to the then West Pakistan where he had to spend nine months in a dark condemned cell.

Bangabandhu wrote down the declaration of independence soon after the Pakistani army cracked down on the fateful night of March 25, 1971.

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Bangladesh celebrates its Independence Day every 16th December to commemorate its freedom from Pakistan in 1971. The war of independence was a remarkable example of courage and sacrifice, marking the victory of democracy over dictatorship. This day commemorates the supreme sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives and thousands more who were tortured or disabled for life.

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7. Bangladesh - The Pakistani period, 1947–71 | Britannica

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9. Independence Day | History, Meaning, & Date | Britannica

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When does Bangladesh celebrate its Independence Day?

Bangladesh celebrates its Independence Day every 16th December to commemorate its freedom from Pakistan in 1971.

What is the significance of this day?

The significance of this day commemorates the supreme sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of people who lost their lives and thousands more who were tortured or disabled for life.

How long did it take for Bangladesh to gain independence?

It took nine months for Bangladesh to gain full independence, culminating with the surrendering Pakistani forces on that fateful night on December 16, 1971.

What events take place on this special day?

On this special day, there are many ceremonies including processions, parades, cultural events, rallies and other activities that are organized across the country celebrating our independence.

Conclusion: Celebrating Independence Day allows us to reflect upon how far we have come as a nation since gaining our freedom and remind us all about what it took for us to gain our hard-fought independence. Let us all strive towards preserving it by guarding our nation against any kind of exploitation or oppression.

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Bangladesh’s Independence Day is on March 26th. It’s a very special day for everyone in Bangladesh. On this day in 1971, Bangladesh said, “I want to be free!” They did not want to be part of Pakistan anymore. So, a big war started. Many brave people fought in this war for nine months. Finally, Bangladesh won and became a free country. On Independence Day, people celebrate with joy. They sing songs, dance, and remember the brave people who fought for freedom. It’s a day to say “Thank you” and feel proud about our beautiful country, Bangladesh.

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Independence Day of Bangladesh is a special day celebrated every year on March 26. It’s a day when the people of Bangladesh remember their fight for freedom. Long ago, in 1971, the people of Bangladesh wanted to make their own rules and take their own decisions. This is called independence. So, they decided to stand up against those who were not letting them do this. There was a big war, and many brave people fought in it. After nine months of tough fighting, on December 16, Bangladesh became a free country. On March 26, the day the war started, is now celebrated as Independence Day. It’s a national holiday. People fly the Bangladesh flag high, sing national songs, and remember the brave people who fought. Kids like you also take part in many fun activities at school. There are parades, speeches, and even competitions. It’s a happy day, but also a day to remember how important freedom is. So, every March 26, we celebrate Independence Day to honor the courage of those who helped Bangladesh become a free country.

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Independence Day of Bangladesh is a significant day marked on March 26 every year. This day is a national holiday that commemorates the declaration of Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan. The history of this day dates back to 1971 when the people of East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, started the Liberation War against the government of West Pakistan. This war, led by the Bangladesh Forces and supported by India, lasted for nine months. The brave people of Bangladesh fought with courage and determination, and on December 16, 1971, Bangladesh finally won its freedom. This day is honored with various events and activities throughout the nation. People visit the National Memorial in Savar to pay respect to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country’s freedom. The day starts with a 31-gun salute in the capital, Dhaka. Bangladesh’s flag is hoisted in every house and important landmarks, and parades are held in major cities. Patriotic songs fill the air, and special cultural programs and exhibitions are organized. School students participate in debates, sports, and drawing competitions. This day serves as a reminder of the courage, sacrifice, and love for the nation that led to Bangladesh’s birth as an independent country. It is an occasion to instill a sense of pride and patriotism in the hearts of young Bangladeshis and to inspire them to contribute to the nation’s progress.

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Independence Day is a significant day for Bangladeshis as it marks the country’s liberation from Pakistan on March 26, 1971. The day is celebrated with great enthusiasm and patriotism throughout the country. The celebrations begin with the hoisting of the national flag and the playing of the national anthem at dawn. People gather in large numbers to pay their respects to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the country’s freedom. The day is also marked by parades, processions, and cultural programs that showcase the country’s rich cultural heritage. The streets are decorated with flags and banners, and people exchange greetings and sweets with one another. Independence Day in Bangladesh is not just a celebration of freedom but also a reminder of the sacrifices made by the freedom fighters to achieve it. It is a day that fills the hearts of Bangladeshis with pride and joy as they celebrate their country’s independence.

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Independence Day is a momentous occasion for the people of Bangladesh. It marks the day when the country gained its independence from Pakistan on March 26th, 1971. This day is celebrated with great enthusiasm and national pride throughout the country. The streets are decorated with the colors of the national flag, and people gather to participate in parades, cultural events, and flag hoisting ceremonies. The day is also marked by speeches from political leaders and other notable figures, who reflect on the sacrifices made by the country’s freedom fighters in their struggle for independence. Bangladeshis take this day to reflect on the importance of freedom and democracy, and to renew their commitment to upholding these values in their daily lives. The Independence Day of Bangladesh is a time to celebrate the country’s rich cultural heritage, its achievements, and its bright future ahead.

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Independence Day is a significant day for the people of Bangladesh. It marks the day when the country achieved independence from Pakistan after a nine-month-long struggle. On March 26, 1971, the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, declared the independence of Bangladesh, which led to a fierce war with Pakistan. The war ended on December 16, 1971, with the surrender of the Pakistani army to the joint forces of Bangladesh and India. Since then, the people of Bangladesh celebrate this day with great pride and joy. On this day, the national flag is hoisted, and the national anthem is played all over the country. Special programs are organized in schools, colleges, and other public places to mark the day. People pay homage to the martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the freedom of the country. The Independence Day of Bangladesh is a symbol of the country’s struggle for self-determination and a reminder of the sacrifices made by the people to achieve it.

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Bangladeshis celebrate Independence Day as it commemorates the freedom of their nation from Pakistan on March 26, 1971. The nation as a whole celebrates the day with great fervor and patriotism. The national anthem and the raising of the flag signal the start of the festivities at dawn. A sizable crowd gathers to pay respects to the martyrs who gave their lives in defense of the nation’s independence. Parades, processions, and cultural events that highlight the nation’s diverse cultural traditions are also held to commemorate the day. People exchange pleasantries and treats while the streets are festooned with flags and banners. Bangladesh’s Independence Day serves as both a celebration of the country’s freedom and a reminder of the costs involved to attain it via the freedom fighters. Bangladeshis commemorate their nation’s independence on this day, which makes them feel proud and happy.

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For Bangladeshis, Independence Day is a major holiday. It commemorates the day that the nation won its independence from Pakistan after a nine-month war. The Father of the Country, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, proclaimed Bangladesh’s independence on March 26, 1971, which sparked a bloody conflict with Pakistan. On December 16, 1971, the Pakistani army was captured by the combined forces of Bangladesh and India, bringing an end to the conflict. Since then, Bangladeshis have been quite proud and happy to celebrate this day. The national anthem is played throughout the nation on this day, and the flag is raised. To commemorate the day, special events are planned at schools, colleges, and other public locations. Individuals honor the martyrs who gave their lives as a price for the nation’s independence. Bangladesh’s Independence Day serves as a reminder of the nation’s battle for self-determination as well as the sacrifices its citizens endured to get there.

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