''Ekattorer Dingulee'' (, ) is an

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by martyr-mother

Jahanara Imam Jahanara Imam (3 May 1929 – 26 June 1994) was a Bangladeshi writer and political activist. She is known for her efforts to bring those accused of committing war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War to trial. She has been called "Shaheed Jan ...

based on her experiences of the

liberation war Wars of national liberation, also called wars of independence or wars of liberation, are conflicts fought by nations to gain independence. The term is used in conjunction with wars against foreign powers (or at least those perceived as foreign) ...

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in 1971. Jahanara Imam's son

Shafi Imam Rumi Shafi Imam Rumi (29 March 1951 – 30 September 1971) was a guerrilla fighter in the Bangladesh Liberation War. He was the eldest son of Sharif and Jahanara Imam, the latter of whom wrote about Rumi's experiences and daily life in her memoir ab ...

, a student, fought the

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i army in

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and urban regions. This book describes Jahanara's daily life as well as a description of the horrors associated with the Liberation War, including the deaths of her son and husband during the conflict. Jahanara's book describes her son Rumi as a brilliant student. He had planned to go abroad to earn a degree in engineering, but the war broke out in March 1971 and he became a volunteer for the "Mukti Bahini" (Freedom Fighters). During the war, he was taken from his home in the middle of the night by Pakistani soldiers and never returned. Jahanara's husband Sharif Imam was a

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. Sharif had a heart attack, but the war created a blackout, and critical medical equipment could not be turned on. As a result, he died. Jahanara survived the war and Bangladesh achieved

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in December 1971. For the remainder of her life, she lived with her surviving son. She received many awards for her books and she created a committee later on to catch the traitors during the war and hand them to the

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* {{in lang, bn Ekattorer Dingulee 1986 non-fiction books Bangladeshi books Bangladeshi non-fiction books