her books Ferari Surjo, Ekatturer Nishan and Begum Nurjahan inked Ekatturer Kothamala. Besides these people many more wrote on our beloved independence, many are writing now and others will go on writing on this issue in future.
Writing was not confined to Bangladesh alone; the message of independence crossed the border into the neighbouring country India which lost 18 thousand soldiers in this war. It was not like Afghan war against Russians or Iraq war against Americans which drew lots of volunteer fighters to fight in favour Afghans or Iraqis from the Muslim countries. The war between the then East Pakistan and the West Pakistan couldn’t draw volunteers from common Indian and Pakistan. So Indian army played a role in the war and very logically a good number ofAyoob and Subrahmanyam collaborated to compose The Liberation War, J. N. Dixit depicts pre-and-post-independence ties of Bangladesh with India in Liberation and Beyond : Indo-Bangladesh Relations. The contribution of Indian intelligence agency is detailed in B. Raman Kaoboys of R&AW, Lt. Gen. K. P. Candeth, Vice Admiral N. Krishnan, Maj. Gen. Lachhman Singh, Brig. Jagdev Singh etc have jotted down in their diaries to turn them into memoirs.
Pakistani army personnel and their collaborators who are held responsible for the atrocities during the war of independence in Bangladesh produced some writers. They were vanquished army and the defeat prompted some of them and the government resorted to play blame game while others had soul-searching, focusing on their own faults. Brig. Siddiq Salik wrote Witness to Surrender, Lt. Gen. Gul