"1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East Bengal and their armed attack on India from West P..."
- Christopher Hitchens
"They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug"
- Monica Ali
"I hate Bangladesh, because it tortures my motherland."
- Shobuj Taposh
"At the base of her ankle is a deep, ugly scar she got when a car ran over her foot when she was six years old. That was in a small town in Bangladesh. Thus, even today, she hesitates superstitiously b..."
- Amit Chaudhuri
"The years of disillusion, the long debate of who-belongs-to-who, gathered at the mighty feet of the Bangladesh Liberation War like flood waters rising, gathering thick weeds and crusty dirt and pullin..."
- Katherine Russell
"In 35 years, 50 percent of our population will live in our cities. Most other countries will be in a similar situation. We need to start preparing now to ensure everyone has the opportunity to live me..."
- Sir Fazle Hasan Abed
"If the war had a noble purpose, it was this - to end the inhumanity those photographs showed. While India rarely spoke about its imperative as the moral one, and few people steeped in realpolitik can ..."
- Salil Tripathi