16th December- Recounting The Glory Of Great Victory Day

“What is our aim?

Victory, Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; Victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival” - Sir Winston Churchill.

- Mahbubar Rahman

With basking in crisp winter sunlight of a mid-December day, at last the Victory smiled on braves, on 16th December, 1971, who fought ceaselessly a nine month long War of Liberation to free the motherland from the Pakistani occupation forces.

Long 45 years have passed since our Great War of Liberation took place when the freedom fighters, most of who are now visibly walking into the twilight of life, were in their prime time of youth with inexhaustible agility and steam of life as could be seen metaphorically as ‘the right time to go to war’. Engaged in an enduring war for long nine months to destroy the last enemy from the soil of the dear motherland, freedom fighters going hand in with the people, at last saw the dream of great Victory Day come true on the 16th December 1971.

Recounting the great occasion of Victory Day in 2016, along with most of the freedom fighters, caught-up with the fever of nostalgia; I also fall back upon a reverie with the reminiscence of tumultuous days of 71 in the battle field when our dear motherland fell prey to ghouls and monsters of occupying military junta of Pakistan who vowed to obliterate this brave nation from the surface of the earth.

Emerging from mellow land standing on alluvial soil of world’s biggest deltaic region, Bengalis are ever peaceloving nation living in the serenity and sublime beauty of nature enriched with hundreds of rivers and tributaries running with the rippling sounds to savor the souls of the teeming million.