The Indian Sub-continent has faced all major religious intruders like Christians, Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. And no matter what PR slogan may have been used, all those invasions took place for one purpose alone: to create colonizer-friendly business environment even at the cost of distorting the prevalent socio-political fabric. Thus, Indian culture has been...
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The situation in South Asia today is a clear reflection of the domino effect that has its roots in the British and American Game theories. Religion traders and poverty contractors have taken over the mantel of elites in the cosmopolitan and metropolitan cities of this region like Delhi, Mumbai, Dhaka, Islamabad and Karachi. In...
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The frisking of Indian ambassador to the US, Meera Shankar, at the Mississippi Airport, is the latest American diplomatic faux pas towards civil liberty. Encircled in the revelations by Wikileaks, the US is facing a third world uprising on the World Wide Web. Operation Payback has been launched by the fans and followers of...
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The leftist movement of Bangladesh had a glorious past. After independence, facing harassment at the hands of Rakhkhi Bahini, the militia wing of the party in power, the leftists turned against the Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. That widened the avenues for the defeated conspirators of ‘71 to assassinate the very symbol...
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Cartoonist Arif became a target of mullahs for his allegedly blasphemous cartoon. Surprisingly, a similar childlike cartoon was published in the party magazine of a religious student organization that didn’t create any controversy. This contradiction is a clear demonstration of how the mullahs used Arif’s cartoon to weaken liberal society. Arif is not alone...
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We can still recall those dark days when radical groups protested against Arifur Rahman’s cartoon on the later banned fun magazine Alpin of Prothom Alo. Arif was a mere contributor, but the 1/11 government jailed and tortured this creative young man, while the mullahs around the country, declaring Arif’s cartoon blasphemous, started burning copies...
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CHT dwellers are in black despair over the comatose Peace Accord, with the radical UPDF out there terrorizing the peace valley. Santu Larma is patiently trying to respect the peace accord with the government, but this very tolerance is being defamed as his weakness by the UPDF, thus making politics risky in the CHT....
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The natives of Chittagong Hill Tracts suffered one colonizer after the other. After 1972, it was Bangabandhu’s BAKSAL-backed Rakkhi Bahini that went for ethnic cleansing in CHT. That was the time when M. N. Larma was forced to spearhead a movement against Baksal autocracies. After the assassination of Father of the nation, General Zia...
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Chittagong Hill Tracts have been a bone of contention in Bangladesh for the last four decades. The aboriginal mountainous people living in these tracts have been taxpayers to successive rulers – Mughals, British, Pakistan and Bangladesh – but their dream of ‘freedom of development’ always failed to materialize. In December 1997, the then Awami...
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Omi Rahman Pial is greatly inspired with the popularity of his blog posts and also whenever his documents are used as reference in countering anti-Liberation War propaganda. He says that a sufficient number of war crimes’ witnesses are still alive so it’s a matter of time before the demons are punished for their acts...
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