Iqbal Rabbani's blood-stained shirt

Iqbal Rabbani's blood-stained shirt

December 16 - a day forever etched in the collective consciousness as a moment of profound national rupture. Yet, for countless families, particularly those of the Urdu-speaking community caught in the devastating aftermath of 1971, this date is not just a historical marker; it is an annual, visceral commemoration of personal agony, and for me embodied by a single, blood-stained white shirt. This is the story of my family, and the painful memory…