: Day of deliverance: My memories of Bangladesh’s hard-won freedom from Pakistan #IndiaNEWS My father and I waited, with our little transistor before us, on the afternoon of March 7, 1971, to hear

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Day of deliverance: My memories of Bangladesh’s hard-won freedom from Pakistan #IndiaNEWS
My father and I waited, with our little transistor before us, on the afternoon of March 7, 1971, to hear Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman speak in Dhaka. More than a thousand miles away in Quetta, we waited for the Dhaka station of Radio Pakistan to take us to the Race Course.We waited in the expectation that Bangabandhu would declare Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan. Earlier in the morning, I had told my classmates in school that it was quite possible I would, when I next met them, be a citizen of a new country arising out of East Pakistan. I recall how intensely I wanted Bangladesh to be free.In the event, Bangabandhu’s speech was not carried by Radio Pakistan. But the next morning, on a kind of intuition, I switched on to Dhaka again – and there was Bangabandhu speaking. The martial law authorities had prevented a direct broadcast of the speech the previous afternoon, but here now was the recorded version of it coming to us all the way from Dhaka. On that cold March morning, I roused my father from sleep. Together we heard Bangabandhu speak in a city I desperately needed to go back to.Operation SearchlightNineteen days later, on the evening of March...Read more

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