December 16 is celebrated as “Victory Day” or “Bijoy Dibosh” in Bangladesh and India. The date has gone down in history as the day when 93,000 Pakistani officers and soldiers surrendered to the Indian military and Bangladeshi guerrilla forces at the historic Ramna Park in central Dhaka, bringing to an end a momentous nine-month war. Bangladesh was liberated from the clutches of the military rulers in Islamabad who had unleashed one of the worst genocides in living memory in March 1971 on their fellow citizens in then East Pakistan.
Celebrating a unique 50-year relationship: India and Bangladesh are development partners with worrying challenges (Pinak Chakravarty, ORF)
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