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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Economic connotation

Connectivity has been given a boost not the least because this is the fourth train that symbolises the signal of intent on either side of the territorial divide, recalling the train from East Pakistan to Sealdah station and the steamer service with the delectable chicken curry served on board ~ both modes of transport in the pre-Partition days.

After 45 years…

He was involved too in the murder of four of the country’s top leaders inside a high-security jail on November 3 in the same year. Yet Majed’s absence from Bangladesh had been a mystery for the past 45 years, most astonishingly the fact that he had been living in Kolkata since 1997.

Mujib’s centenary

The video message was distinctly addressed to the post-liberation generation (1971) and the Awami League… and not to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, whose support base comprises those who were repatriated from Pakistan, including a few who had helmed the army in liberated Bangladesh.