Tripura CM releases book by Bangladesh soldier

Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar released an autobiographical novel, Sonali egal o udbastu samoy written by a Bangladeshi soldier of the liberation war describing it as a document of the people's struggle for freedom.

"It is an unbiased portrayal of 1971 history that bonded the people of the two countries historically again and perhaps it is the only literary work of any Bangladeshi writer who recognised the contribution of India and its people in the war for freedom," Sarkar said while releasing the Bengali novel written by Haroon Habib, at the Agartala Press Club last night.

Tripura, sheltered over 15 lakh refugees from the then East Pakistan, which was more than its total population, while India housed over 10 million Bangladesh refugees in other bordering states in 1971.