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Members of the Special Frontier Force, including soldiers from Tibet, during the 1971 India-Pakistan War, in this dated photograph. (File Photo) By PTI
KOLKATA: A two-storied non-descript house at 57/8 Ballygunge Circular Road, a stone s throw away from the Tripura royal palace in the heart of this city, stands mute witness to an operation in the run-up to the 1971 war that gave the Bangladesh government-in-exile a radio station to broadcast hope to its beleaguered people facing genocide by the Pakistan Army.
Fifty years ago, on this day, a motley group of singers, poets and radio broadcasters made their way to the rented house, where a makeshift studio and dormitory for the artistes had been set up. The day was chosen in part because it was the birthday of the man who would become Bangladesh s national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam.
A two-storied non-descript house at 57/8 Ballygunge Circular Road, a stone's throw away from the Tripura royal palace in the heart of this city, stands mute witness to an operation in the run up to the 1971 war which gave the Bangladesh government-in-exile a radio station to broadcast "hope" to its beleaguered people facing genocide by the Pakistan Army.