Bangladesh Liberation War
The war I never saw, but inherited
The trauma of surviving a genocide is passed down through generations.
16 December 2025
Victory Day and the republic we owe ourselves
The erosion of democracy became most pronounced between 2014 and 2024.
16 December 2025
50 years on, Sheikh Mujib’s killing deserves a nuanced reading
He was a leader both loved and disliked during his lifetime.
15 August 2025
July Declaration: Where is the roadmap for our future journey?
Denigration of our Liberation War will never be acceptable
7 August 2025
Humiliation of a freedom fighter is unacceptable
Those responsible should be held accountable
24 December 2024
December 16: Proudly celebrated, not seriously studied
The cruelties of the genocide, and the heroism of the resistance were all parts of the people’s lived experience.
16 December 2024
An ill-timed revisionist attempt serves no purpose
Cancellation of certain national days should be reviewed
17 October 2024
Henry Kissinger’s influence on Bangladesh’s history
The policies he implemented cemented his image as a ruthless figure in Bangladesh's history, a position he carved out for himself.
1 December 2023
Poet Asad Chowdhury no more
With the publication of his first collection of poems, Tabak Deya Paan in 1975, Bangla literary scene witnessed the emergence of a powerful new voice.
5 October 2023
Book-Buzz back with its second iteration
Ushinor Majumdar’s book details how, since Partition, the Pakistan military junta had continued to exert unjust power over Bengal and its resident Bengalis.
2 October 2023
Two storms and a nation’s birth
The Vortex is a collage of selfless acts to help victims of the Bhola cyclone and the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971.
7 July 2023
Can we process trauma through writing?
Iffat Nawaz, together with The Daily Star’s Books & Literary Editor, Sarah Anjum Bari, will discuss the act and impact of processing traumatic memories through writing.
15 June 2023
The unfinished fight for people’s freedom
Bangladesh was supposed to be a country run by its people, but we are dangerously moving towards a country being run by a coterie.
26 March 2023
Stories that we tell ourselves
How should a nation memorialise its history?
25 March 2023
1971
In west Texas, oil froths
luxurious from hard ground
while across Bangladesh,
bayoneted women stain
pond water blossom.
25 March 2023
Bangabandhu comes home, completes victory
It was the British Royal Air Force comet jet that, on January 10, 1972, carried Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman to his freed motherland -- the country he had led to independence.
10 January 2023
Snapshots from 1971
On this day in 1971, Bangladesh was liberated from the Pakistan occupation forces following a bloody nine-month war. These pictures were taken in December, 1971.
16 December 2022
Bangladesh: A War Like No Other
It’s now the responsibility of the youth to dig through that history and feel proud.
15 December 2022
Vicky Kaushal all set to play Manekshaw, Indian army chief during Liberation War
Bollywood star Vicky Kaushal says he has started preparing for the much-anticipated film “Sam Bahadur”, a biopic on India’s first Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw who was the country’s army chief during the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh.
21 June 2022
Diversity and nuance mark the Bangladeshi experience in Sohana Manzoor's 'Our Many Longings: Contemporary Short Fiction From Bangladesh'
So many words have been used to describe this nation in the last 50 years. Started from a bottomless basket, and along the way we’ve been called resilient, passionate, corrupt, greedy, full of warmth.
22 December 2021