Storm of Independence: The Cyclone That Birthed a Nation

Natural disasters typically unify nations in shared grief. The 1970 Bhola Cyclone did the exact opposite: it completely dismantled a country. Striking the coast of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), it remains the deadliest tropical cyclone in recorded human history, obliterating over 300,000 lives overnight. However, the true devastation was geopolitical. The West Pakistani government's criminally...