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Mujib's blunders: Manash Ghosh's book reveals how Rahman lost plots

The Power and the Plot Behind His Killing, "covers the troubled years after the freedom struggle, popularly known as the Liberation War, against the genocidal Pakistan Army"

Mujib’s Blunders: The Power and the Plot Behind His Killing
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Mujib’s grant of amnesty on November 30, 1974 to all who were under trial or had been convicted, of war crimes and collaboration with the Pakistanis gave a huge boost to the Jamaat-e-Islami and its auxiliaries such as the al-Badr, al-Shams and Razaka

Hiranmay Karlekar
Mujib’s Blunders: The Power and the Plot Behind His Killing
by Manash Ghosh
Published by 
Niyogi Books
476 pages ₹795
 
As Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty, a former High Commissioner of India to Bangladesh, points out in his foreword, Manash Ghosh’s Mujib’s Blunders: The Power and the Plot Behind His Killing, “covers the troubled years after the freedom struggle, popularly known as the Liberation War, against the genocidal Pakistan Army.” Obviously, the focus of any such book has to be Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — commonly referred to as Sheikh Mujib — an inspirational