40 Years after the liberation of Bangladesh, Pritish Nandy who wrote fiercely independent and incisive articles in the Illustrated Weekly Of India and other publications of the early 1970s on the Liberation Movement has been invited by the Bangladesh government to be honoured on 15 December. The function will honour those intellectual minds who helped Bangladesh attain liberation. Speaking on being conferred the honour Pritish Nandy said, “The birth of Bangladesh was a miracle. Most wars end in stalemate but Indira Gandhi won it decisively and with amazing precision. I was proud to play a role in the making of a new nation, a nation born out of the love for a language and a proud culture: Bengali.”