PM Sheikh Hasina says ‘We don’t know in what conditions Sheikh Mujib lived in Pakistan prisons. A little is known that after appearing in the court, Sheikh Mujib used to utter “Joy Bangladesh. Whatever you like you do with me … I did whatever I should do, meaning that Bangladesh must be liberated.” Dhaka: Prime […]
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(Photo Courtesy: BBC Feature Service -2016) This article is all about the complex of people of subcontinent having dark skin, and a multinational company’s business trick of introducing ‘Fair & Lovely’ cream some decades back but now, after the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement in the United States, the company has quickly changed its branding and […]
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The writer highlights plight of Bangladeshi garment industry workers who have been rendered jobless due to lockdown. The situation is almost same as in Pakistan where too millions of industrial workers have lost their source of livelihood. By Nazarul Islam Noor Bano is a 26-year-old garment worker and mother of two in Dhaka, Bangladesh, surviving […]
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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib cherished a slogan ‘Krishak Banchle Banchbe Desh’ (The country will survive if farmers survive). This was also the motto of his initiative ‘Sabuj Biplob’ (Green Revolution) after the independence of Bangladesh. Dr. Atiur Rahman He originated from rural Bengal. He saw the pains and struggles of the peasantry from close quarters. He […]
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Sheikh Mujib writes in his unfinished memoirs ‘I have come to the conclusion that to engage in politics in our country one must be ready to make huge sacrifices to make our people happy.’ By Dr. Atiur Rahman Tagore had a non-conventional view of history. He said in an article titled ‘Bharat Borsher Itihas’ (‘The […]
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Mr. Hoodbhoy says that two-nation theory went into Bay of Bengal in 1971, but Mr. Jabbar insists that tow-nation theory is ‘beautifully alive and well, and that ‘Muslim Bangladeshi nationalism is the foundation of Bangladesh and today it remains proudly Muslim, predominantly Muslim Bangladesh. His argument is contrary to the fact that even the official […]
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(Photo Courtesy: BBC) Many Hindus of East Bengal had good reason to fear for their safety after horrific riots and rapes against them there in the late 1940s. But many of the Muslims of West Bengal, especially the more privileged ones, who crossed into East Pakistan, were successful fortune hunters. By Nazarul Islam A large […]
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This article depicts the shallowness of politics in the countries of the subcontinent. By Nazarul Islam ‘More loyal than the king, himself’ – This is a term I have seen used more recently in situations of being ‘Professionally offended’ or ‘Professionally outraged’. This is used to describe someone who takes offense at something on behalf […]
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Sheikh Mujib Rahman was a devoted member of Muslim League and had made significant contribution towards achieving Pakistan yet he was disillusioned with newly born country within first year as the government was unwilling to fulfill its pledges it made to the poor masses. Mujib’s speeches quoted in the article testify the fact. By Dr. […]
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Seventy three years ago, Pakistan was delivered out chaos, fire, sorrows and grief. Every year, we have celebrated the birth of Pakistan, with painful memories—of deadly communal riots, that have remained pegged with the story of India’s Partition, since 1947. Again, in the year 1971, a grieved nation of Bangladesh was born from the ashes […]
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