Raghu Rai's rediscovered negatives relive the horrors of B'desh's liberation Thu, Apr 22 2021 13:03 IST | 2 Views
Raghu Rai's rediscovered negatives relive the horrors of Bangladesh's liberation.. Image Source: IANS News New Delhi, April 22 : Ace photographer Raghu Rai was only five years into the profession when the Bangladesh liberation struggle erupted in March 1971. He was dispatched post-haste by The Statesman newspaper to record the exodus of refugees, they would eventually number some 10 million, as they streamed into West Bengal and neighbouring states to escape the atrocities being committed by the Pakistani Army. He could immediately empathise with the refugees being a child of Partition himself when he and his family were uprooted from their Jhang hometown in what is now Pakistan.