Through the BBC and some sketchy Indian newspaper reports, I learned about the unrest in Dhaka in the early part of March 1971, and Sheikh Mujib's speech of March 7 was well reported by the Statesman ...

The month of March is here again and it brings back vivid memories to me which are linked automatically with many others. In March 1971, I was working on an Oxfam-UK supported Gandhian village ...

Calcutta was a central place in the life of Eastern Bengalis for more than a century as the capital of colonial Bengal. The Partition of Bengal in 1947 made a complete breach of Calcutta's link to ...

Army commandos rappelled down ropes from helicopters in a show of what a real war situation looks like and civilians across age groups gawked at weapons from up close at the Royal Calcutta Turf Club ...

CALCUTTA: West Bengali crowds today [April 22] attacked the hotel where the new Pakistani Deputy High Commissioner to Calcutta was staying while making preparations to take over his country’s mission ...

The Union Minister for West Bengal Affairs Mr. Siddhartha Shankar Ray, at a meeting of 26 political parties today, rejected the demand for an all-party probe into Thursday’s mob frenzy at Cossipore ...

The month of March is here again and it brings back vivid memories to me which are linked automatically with many others. In March 1971, I was working on an Oxfam-UK supported Gandhian village ...