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Category: Bangladesh War of Independence

Putul Chanda: The Journey Before Jamaica – Part 2

May 22, 2017
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| Categories: AAPI, AAPIheritagemonth, Bangladesh War of Independence, Desi Senior Center, immigrant seniors, Media coverage, Oral History, senior profile

Garima Bakshi, a student with NYU’s journalism program, wrote an article that chronicled our member, Putul Chanda, a senior from Bangladesh and our center in Jamaica, known as the Desi Senior Center. In the article she tells the history, not just of our senior’s life, but that of Bangladesh’s protracted and traumatic fight for freedom. Putul Chanda is…

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Dr. Shireen Mansoor: She defied tradition to save lives during war

April 20, 2016
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| Categories: Bangladesh War of Independence, Desi Senior Center, Doctor, immigrant seniors, senior profile

Shireen Mansoor was born in 1949 in Bogra village in, what was then, undivided Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding leader  of Bangladesh and its first President, was a cousin. Perhaps that’ is why the revolutionary spirit burned bright in her. From a young age she broke with tradition, went to college and became one of the few women in the country with…

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