Independent Day of Bangladesh

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With each passing day in March Bengali disobedience created and the overall public of East Pakistan over the long haul launched out.

The spirit moreover touched the Bangalee banishes living far away. London was one such place where the Bangalees rampaged for a self-governing Bangladesh.

On March 5, Bangalees living in London expended Pakistani flags at the Pakistan High Commission there. This was one of the various wild events that happened in London in the midst of the Liberation War. Frankly, London transformed into the propitiatory front of Bangladesh, where saves were raised for the war effort.

Around four decades later, a Bangladeshi youthful individual dealt with the little-known scene of the chronicled background of outcast Bangalees who combat their own specific battle to amass world assumption against genocide and for seeing Bangladesh as a free country.

Ujjal Das worked for a long time assembling and archiving unprecedented records of the chronicled events in the UK.

Titled "Wander London 1971", the 39-year-old joined around 300 phenomenal photographs, productions, presents, letters, clippings of Bangla and English day by day papers, and the principle postal stamp of Bangladesh.
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"To me, the Liberation War was constrained to the area of Bangladesh. Regardless, a battle was also struggled in London to draw support for a free Bangladesh. London accepted a noteworthy part for the purpose behind our opportunity," said Ujjal in a gathering to The Daily Star on the eve of the Independence Day.

He lost seven relatives, including two close relatives, in the war.

Ujjal was locked in with news-throwing and Ananda Niketan, a social affiliation, when he was an understudy. Resulting to completing his BSc (regards) from Sylhet MC College, he went to London in 2009 to look for after his masters in tourism organization. Preceding that, he had been to London twice.

"When I went to London the primary event when, I came consider various events related to our Liberation War and learnt how the shun Bangalees got together to crush home their solicitations already an overall get-together of individuals at a basic time," Ujjal said.

In the wake of going to London for contemplates, he heard stories of the war from his relatives and partners.

He was moved when he saw a stamp of Bangladesh at a show at Queen Mary University of London fourteen days after he accomplished London. The glass case containing the stamp said Biman Chand Mallick as the fashioner.

"It was the primary postal stamp of Bangladesh. I was energized."

He investigated Biman and found him in London. He conversed with him and appropriated it in a Bangladeshi every day paper.

"As I started my work, I began to recognize how huge a battle I had swam into."

From Biman, he came to consider Shashanka Shekhar Benarjee, an Indian arbitrator, who worked in Dhaka in the mid 60's.

In 1971, he worked for Bangladesh in London under the alias Hossain. Shashanka ran with Bangabandhu in the midst of his homecoming by methods for London in 1972.

He had two photographs of the voyage with Bangabandhu - one inside the plane and another in the midst of a stopover in Cyprus.

"I moreover conversed with Shashanka and appropriated a story. Not long after the appropriation, various people started contacting me.

"I expected to work to pick up a living. Regardless, whatever is left of the time, I took after and associated with people who were related with important events in London," said Ujjal.

A generous number of the photographs that he accumulated were taken by British picture taker Roger Gwynn and Bangladeshi outcast Yusuf Chowdhury. They gave him the copyrights of the photographs.

He bought 25 photographs with the dedication from his relatives and well-wishers.

One of the photographs is of a get-together of thousands of Bangalees and non-Bangalees at Trafalgar Square on August 1, 1971.

Another notable photograph is of Bangabandhu sitting with Dr Kamal Hossain, British Air Commodore David B Craig, and Golam Mowla at Nicosia Airport in Cyprus on January 9, 1972.

"Shashanka Banerjee sent me that photograph as my birthday introduce in 2016."

He moreover accumulated a letter physically composed by Tajuddin Ahmed, the fundamental official of Bangladesh, in which he searched for cooperation from Bangalees in London.

"Really, I don't know why I began this [collecting the memorabilia]. As far back as I started forming feature stories [for newspapers], I started assembling things of imperative regard."

In 2016, he returned to Bangladesh to make a book named "London 1971". He dealt with a couple of shows including the photographs of his social affair in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, and even Toronto.

"I wish to hand these exceptional photographs, reports and memorabilia over to the Liberation War Museum and Bangabandhu Memorial Museum."

Fazlul Kabir Tuhin and Faruk Ahmed, expats in London, maintained him every single through hello undertaking, he said.

He means to go to the US and Canada not long from now to assemble more things.

Head manager Sheik Hasina today urged all to coordinate plannedly with the objective that the country's stroll forward in light of the Liberation War soul never stops.

"I require Bangladesh to push ahead with the Liberation War spirt and this voyage must not be stopped as we have to make the country a middle wage one by 2021 and made one by 2041," she said.

The head manager was talking at the allotment capacity of the 'Swadhinata Puroskar-2018' (Independence Award-2018), the most shocking non military staff regard of the country.

She gave over the distinctions to the recipients at a limit dealt with by the Cabinet Division at Osmani Memorial Auditorium.

This year, 18 perceived characters got the respect in affirmation of their excellent duties regarding their individual fields.

Sheik Hasina said it was a dream of the Father of the Nation to fulfill the fundamental benefits of people. "To me remaining in charge suggests discharging my obligations to people, manufacture the country with the titanic Liberation War soul and make it a dejection and longing free one as imagined by the Father of the Nation," she said.

She determined that Bangladesh has fulfilled each one of the criteria to progress into the making country gathering. "We'll now proceed onward the planet field with our heads high, never bow down our heads."

Authority people, MPs, secretaries, moderators, the distinctions recipients and diverse guests were accessible at the limit.

The recipients are: Quazi Zakir Hasan (after death) in the class of Independence and Liberation War, Shaheed SMA Rashidul Hasan (posthumous) in Independence and Liberation War, Shankar Govinda Chowdhury (after death) in Independence and Liberation War, Air Vice-Marshal Sultan Mahmud Bir Uttam in Independence and Liberation War, M Abdur Rahim (after death) in Independence and Liberation War, Bhupati Bhusan Chowdhury false name Manik Chowdhury (after death) in Independence and Liberation War, Shaheed Lieutenant Mohammad Anwarul Azim (after death) in Independence and Liberation War, Humayun Rashid Chowdhury (after death) in Independence and Liberation War, Shaheed Amanullah Mohammad Asaduzzaman (after death) in Independence and Liberation War,
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Shaheed Motiur Rahman Mallik (after death) in Independence and Liberation War, Shaheed Sergeant Zahurul Haq (after death) in Independence and Liberation War, Amzadul Haq in Independence and Liberation War, Cultural Affairs Minister Assaduzzaman Noor in Culture while Channel-I official Shykh Seraj in Agricultural Journalism, Prof Dr AKMD Ahsan Ali in Medicine, Professor AK Azad Khan in Social Service, Selina Hossen in Literature and Dr M Abdul Mazid in Food Security.

Authority Secretary Mohammad Shafiul Alam read out the references at the program.

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