On January 17, 1972, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was featured on the cover of
Time magazine. The cover illustration used a yellow diagonal label that cuts across the magazine s iconic red title TIME to write: Bangladesh: From Jail to Power . The image of a bold Sheikh Mujib donning a black prince coat with a splash of white collar peeking out of it complements his salt and pepper grey hair and moustache. His brown skin against the blue canvas makes the subtitle Sheikh Mujibur Rahman synonymous to Bangladesh under the new azure sky. For nine months, the country was incarcerated just like he was in a jail in Lyallpur, Pakistan. Mujib returned from jail on January 10 not only to assume power but also to make his people feel powerful in an independent country. The illustration depicts worries in the brown eyes of the charismatic figure that capture the tenor of the cover story.
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December 16, 2020 marks the 49th.year of the end of the war in East Pakistan which led to the emergence of an independent Bangladesh.
Joint operations by the Bangladeshi guerilla force, the
Mukti Bahini and the Indian armed forces ended Pakistani rule in 14 days. India played a vital role in bringing this about, but the Indira Gandhi government in New Delhi had to traverse a very hard road, strewn with expected and unexpected obstacles.
From March 25, 1971, atrocities described as “genocide” by the
Sunday Times were being perpetrated by the Pakistani army. Eight million Bengali refugees had poured into India. The Western media was carrying grizzly accounts of what was happening in East Pakistan, stirring the conscience of people across the globe.
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After Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that his country will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest, the first world leader to voice his views on the farmers protests, India slammed his remarks as “ill-formed” and unwarranted . Peeved over Canada s remarks, reports said External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar would skip a Canada-led virtual meeting on COVID-19. On the same day as India protested, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh took a dig at the state of internal affairs across the border in Pakistan and on countries that can neither make their own road nor walk on it. Do these statements suggest interventionism in international affairs is on the rise? Is domestic politics taking increasing precedence in how countries conduct foreign policy, and is the principle of non-intervention in international affairs a relic of the past that needs revisiting?