Sheikh Hasina set to revisit history

"The Prime Minister's two-day tour to Tripura is historic. The tiny State was the unofficial war headquarters of the Bangladesh liberation war."

The Hindu : Opinion / Op-Ed : Sheikh Hasina set to revisit history

"After the brutal assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975, Dhaka not only deviated from the spirit of the liberation war but also politically distanced itself from New Delhi, reversing the historic ties built over the crucial nine months of 1971. Tripura not only shares an 856-km border with Bangladesh but was also the unofficial war headquarters of the liberation war."

Authored by Haroon Habib, a Bangladesh author and journalist, can be reached at hh1971@gmail.com.