Bangladesh. Archer K Blood wrote in the light of his experience as the US diplomat in Dhaka The Cruel Birth of Bangladesh: Memoirs of an American Diplomat, Peter Bertocci edited Prelude to Crisis – Bengal & Bengal Studies (1970), Lawrence Lifschultz looked at the new nation in a different way in his work Bangladesh : The Unfinished Revolution. Sharmila Bose objectively wrote the book Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War much to the ire of winners.
The UK was always a centre of excellence when it comes to the question of creativity. Bangladesh’s war of independence and its’ impact reached not only the diaspora but also the non-Bangladeshis. Owen Bennett Jones wrote Pakistan Eye of the Storm, David Loshak wrote Pakistan Crisis, LF Rushbrook Williams’ The EastPakistan Tragedy offers a different discourse. Dom Moraes grabs the tension in his The Tempest Within: An Account of East Pakistan.
So as we know there is no rating on creative writings on independence wars of different countries, creativities in the construction of graveyards or any battle on the designs of mausoleums. If there were any competitions on books on independence war Bangladesh’s huge bulk of books could have grabbed berth in top ten positions. In mausoleums category National Mausoleum at Savar could have beat any other mausoleums in the world. In the graveyard category Rayer Bazar Boddhyabhumi could have easily competed with the graveyard of Srebrenica where eight thousand Bosnians were butchered by the Balkan butchers Slobodan Milosevic or Ratco Mladic. n