Blogging has revolutionized the life and politics of Bengalis around the globe in general and in Bangladesh in particular. During the last BNP-Jamaat regime when media licenses were handed out to the business elites in power and when militancy started rearing its ugly head, and after 1/11 when the magic phantom of minus 2...
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Children Park – a type of real social business (example of MOON PARK & MOON HOUSE) This was also published in The News Today 09 Dec 2010 and other blogs http://www.newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details&news_id=14376&date=2010-12-09 http://www.bdcomcn.com/English-Articles/children-park-a-type-of-real-social-business-of-moon-park-a-moon-house.html http://bangladesh-web.com/view.php?hidRecord=343086 Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, of Bangladesh while addressing the prize giving ceremony of a painting competition at...
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South Asian Union is perhaps a utopian concept for skeptics in Dhaka, Delhi and Islamabad; but a concept prophetically embraced by those in the European Union and ASEAN. Our journey of division and sub-division started as soon as Jinnah and Nehru allowed Radcliff to sharpen his magic pencil. The Raj rightly identified the deepest...
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The 1971 war criminals’ trial is finally on the move to provide closure to victims’ families. Those from Bangladesh who sold their soul to the rulers of Pakistan and collaborated with the Yahiya regime are set to be tried for crimes against humanity. They are not only accused of loots, kills and rapes but...
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In most interactions with Kolkata journalists, writers and artists, I have found them to praise Dhaka as the beholder of Bangla language. Going over my signature in Bangla, even a hotel manager in Kolkata tearfully exclaimed: “You Bangladeshis have truly sustained the honor of this language.” And then a senior journalist in the same...
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The row between the government and the opposition remains repetitive and as time-wasting as Samuel Beckett’s stagnant stage of Waiting for Godot. Nothing changes. People don’t get security or health service from the state; education fails to accommodate a wider generation and police continues to humiliate civil citizens. No political party works towards establishing...
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Once the historic task of the independence of Bangladesh was accomplished, Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman thought building up the new nation would be a comparatively easy task. But the post-independence scenario came as a shock realization that all was not well. The very patriots who fought for a separate homeland started...
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World-renowned architect Louis Kahn, who also designed the parliament building of Bangladesh, while defining his philosophy once said that even a brick has a soul. Three of our top leaders – Shaikh Hasina, Khaleda Zia and H.M. Ershad – have spent confinement within the red brick walls of sub-jails adjacent to the parliament house....
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Photo: Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, in her first public speech after her party’s landslide victory in the 29th December 2008 Parliamentary Election, urged all parties to work together for the betterment of Bangladesh stressing on the importance of the opposition in the country’s future as a democratic state. Dhaka, Bangladesh. December 31 2008....
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Society changes at a rapid pace, we constantly surrender to the automation of neo-gadgets. This has been a ceaseless reality since the Industrial Revolution. But Dhaka society is different. The rate of change is more rapid; social inequity speed-rides on the wheels of corruption; values of truth and goodness are as outdated as our...
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