More than anyone else in Bangladesh’s history, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman enjoyed a relationship with his people. That special relationship reached its zenith at Racecourse Maidan.
That year 1971, as we all know by now, threw up a number of dates that will remain forever etched in the history of Bangladesh, and command its people’s reverence. Particularly 26th March and 16th December, commemorated respectively as the dates of Independence and Victory, stand out in the popular consciousness, constitutionally enshrined as indelible landmarks in the emergence of Bangladesh. They are marked on every calendar and appear on the ‘Important Dates’ column of every diary, not to mention the annual holiday sheet. Yet there are many - or at least maybe the 10 lakh or so who made their way to the Racecourse on March 7 that year who in thinking back, will find it hard to name any other day, or date, or moment, that can take that afternoon’s place as the pinnacle of Bangladeshi nationalism.
This story is from the March 9, 2018 edition of Dhaka Courier.
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