Amid threats of airstrikes, a turning point in the history of an independent nation was about to unfold and the stage was almost set for a defining moment in Bangladesh’s Liberation War.
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Fifty years on, crossing the mighty Padma river in a small rowboat with a nor wester brewing still gives Manash Ghosh nightmares.Then a "cub reporter" with The Statesman, Ghosh was embedded with the Indian Army during the 1971 .