Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returned home from Pakistani captivity on 10 January 1972. He was received at Dhaka airport by a huge crowd which included a large number of his political co-travellers and colleagues. From the airport he was driven to the Race Course Maidan (now Suhrawardy Udyan)

The cities in Indian subcontinent emerged in the last four to six hundred years ago. Their emergence was necessitated by the need of the conquerors/rulers to expand their political and economic power. Dhaka has a history of 400 plus years, Calcutta, today's Kolkata, 300 plus. While the two citi