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K2

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doing some serious reading on Himalayan mountaineering for last few days. especially on K2. don’t know why am I getting so much attraction on it. perhaps for of its deadliness! for a serious climber with ambition, K2 is the ultimate prize. it’s far more dangerous and deadly than Mt. Everest. while Everest has been overrun by a circus of commercial expeditions, K2 had retained an aura of mystery and danger and remains the mountaineer’s mountain.

watched a movie yesterday, title “K2”. it’s a 1992 film, based on a true story. form it’s IMDB rating, I didn’t have much expectation to it. but it’s a good movie. underrated. I think it’s one of the best movies on mountaineering, much close to reality.

now looking for a book “No Way Down: Life and Death on K2” by Graham Bowley

Cartoons during the liberation war of Bangladesh

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Yesterday I went to the “Liberation War Corner” located inside our uni central library. Actually that’s the quietest corner in the library! I go to the library when I get some free time in uni to relax and read book (mostly non-academic books :-P) My recent interest going on to the books of Syed Mujtoba Ali.

Anyway, while I was looking on the books in shelves, I found a very interesting one “Media and the Liberation War of Bangladesh: Cartoon Volume 1” by Reaz Ahmed. This first volume brought 350 cartoons together. The cartoons are obtained from magazines, newspaper cuttings and periodicals of 1971. The cartoons in the collection originally came through in Bengali and in English. The surprise comes in knowing that in only nine months of war such a huge volume of cartoons emerged to depict the struggle of the Bengalis for freedom. While reading the book, I took some shots of the cartoons by my mobile camera. Here some of them.