Media And The Liberation War Of Bangladesh : Vol. 26

Bangladesh War of Liberation in 1971 created waves across the world. There were artistes who made music and sketched pictures depicting the struggle, and the masses took to the streets in defense of Bangali struggle for liberation. In various newspapers, periodicals and journals, articles, comments and editorials were published to highlight Bangladesh. All of these recorded documents, as it were, have now been collated and collected for publications by Bangladesh Charcha (Centre for Bangladesh Studies), entitled Media and the Liberation War of Bangladesh. Present volume is a collection of news, editorials, essays etc published in The Hindustan Standard from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The Hindustan Standard was published by Kolkata based Anandabazar Group with prime objective of helping Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose when Netaji left Congress to launch a new political party Forward Block in 1939. Anandabazar Group announced the closure of the Hindustan Standard in 1975. But it has historic importance in the context of the liberation war of Bangladesh. It ran reports, articles of editorials regarding the war almost every day with importance. The Hindustan Standard played a positive role in highlighting key issues of the national liberation struggle of Bangalis.