Last week I received an email from a dear friend. The email came from Sweden, on Valentine’s Day. I have spent the better part of this week trying to craft a response. I have failed. This post is my attempt at a response. My blog is anti-torture. There is a logo on the sidebar...
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– Mehedi Hasan has been released, a WRC spokesperson confirmed: … Mehedi Hasan was released Sunday afternoon, Dhaka time. We have confirmed it directly with Mehedi himself. We also understand that the pending charges against him have been dropped, this is what the police have told Mehedi’s lawyer. Documents confirming...
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Recently I wrote about Sarmila Bose’s apologia for the Pakistan army that was published last September in Economic and Political Weekly. In this week’s issue of EPW, two critical comments were published that take to task Ms. Bose’s “research.” The first comment is from Akhtaruzzaman Mandal,...
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The erstwhile Pakistan Observer newspaper, renamed The Observer, published its first issue in independent Bangladesh on December 18, 1971, two days after the Pakistan army surrendered to the...
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Last Sunday I attended a seminar on the Bangladesh Genocide at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. The seminar was organized by the Nathan Weiss Graduate College at Kean. The seminar inaugurated graduate course work on the Bangladesh Genocide as part of the Masters program in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The...
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Aparajito: The word cannot be properly translated into English. Those who have seen Satyajit Ray’s 1956 film “Aparajito” may translate the word as “unvanquished”. Undefeated. Unbowed. Uncowed. Unbeaten. It is much more than any of those words. Today, four Bangladeshi prisoners of conscience — Moloy Bhowmik, Selim Reza Newton, Abdullah Al...
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Cyclone Sidr battered Bangladesh last Thursday taking an yet unknown number of lives in its path. The latest official reports put the death toll over 2000. No one really knows how high the death toll will climb since rescuers have not...
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“Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the world.” — Archimedes, 220 BC. On November 10, 1987 a young Bangladeshi man named Nur Hossain was shot and killed by the forces of Bangladesh’s part-time poet and full time dictator General Hossain Mohammad Ershad....
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This morning I received an email from Dr. David King. Dr. King is a lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. As ShadaKalo reported in his excellent post last night, General Moeen U Ahmed attended Dr. King’s class on Election Reform on Monday. The class consisted of...
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General Moeen U Ahmed denies taking approximately Taka 1 crore loan. Puts the loan amount at Taka 35 lakh. Claims he is a victim of “internet propaganda.” Prospectus issued by Trust Bank itself contradicts Moeen. Since my post two days ago regarding General Moeen U Ahmed’s tenure as chairman of Trust...
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