For those of us, who learned about our liberation war of 1971 through history books or from our parents, the 2013's Shahbag has a different, unique and important meaning. Don't get me wrong, nothing can be compared with '71, nothing at all. But the Shahbag movement has reignited the power of emotion, allowed us to show our deep love for the country and created opportunity for expressing our anger to those who collaborated with the Pakistani army. In effect, the Shahbag movement has done much more- our search for identity as a true citizen of Bangladesh is finally on the right track (I must say, despite some pathetic efforts by some political leaders), our password for citizenship "Joy Bangla" is back (much to the despair of those who were eager to term this as a "partisan" slogan) and all



