Bangladesh
Die a million people of the Bangladesh. ~ Joan Baez
Bangladesh is a developing country in South Asia, located on the fertile Ganges Delta. It is bordered by India to its north, west and east, by Myanmar to its south-east and by the Bay of Bengal to its south. It is separated from the Nepal and the Bhutan by the narrow Indian Siliguri Corridor. Together with the neighboring Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, it makes up the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. The name, Bangladesh, means "Country of Bengal" in the official Bengali language.
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[edit]- The birth of Bangladesh has raised fundamental questions about the concept of nationhood in South Asian subcontinent. The emergence of Bangladesh reveals that South Asia does not contain one or two nations but many nations. Bangladesh may not, therefore, be the last hidden nation to surface in this subcontinent. The relationship between the "parts" and "whole" in South Asia may not be a settled issue, their respective roles may have to be renegotiated in the future.
- "Discovery of Bangladesh: Explorations Into Dynamics of a Hidden Nation"-Akbar Ali Khan, Revised Edition, Third Impression 2009, The University Press Limited, p. 156.
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[edit]- Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Bangladesh, Bangladesh
When the sun sinks in the west
Die a million people of the Bangladesh.- Joan Baez, "Song of Bangladesh", Come from the Shadows (1972)
- We believe that if we can establish a non-communal state in East Bengal, then West Bengal, Assam, and Tripura, which are currently ruled and oppressed by Hindi-speaking people, will one day be willing to join an independent Bangladesh.
- Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman said this to Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury regarding the flag of independent Bengal, designed by the Bangladesh Revolutionary Council.[1]
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[edit]- Millions of souls nineteen seventy one
Homeless on Jessore road under grey sun
A million are dead, the million who can
Walk toward Calcutta from East Pakistan.
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[edit]- Those sons-of-bitches, who never have lifted a finger for us, why should we get involved in the morass of East Pakistan? ... [I]f East Pakistan becomes independent, it is going to become a cesspool. It’s going be 100 million people, they have the lowest standard of living in Asia. No resources. They’re going to become a ripe field for Communist infiltration.
- Henry Kissinger, quoted in G. J. Bass, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (2014)
- Not one has yet understood what we did in India-Pakistan and how it saved the China option which we need for the bloody Russians. Why would we give a damn about Bangladesh?”
- Henry Kissinger, to U.S. President Richard Nixon, who responded: "We don't." Quoted in G. J. Bass, The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide (2014), Epilogue
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The dictionary definition of Bangladesh on Wiktionary
Travel guides for Bangladesh from Wikivoyage
