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Yahya, Bhutto and 7 March 1971
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Yahya, Bhutto and 7 March 1971On 7 March 1971, history for the people of Bangladesh acquired a whole new meaning. When he placed his four demands ---- as a precondition for participation at the 25 March session of the Pakistan National Assembly --- among which demands was the necessity of a transfer of power to the elected representatives of the ...
Yahya, Bhutto and 7 March 1971
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Yahya, Bhutto and 7 March 1971On 7 March 1971, history for the people of Bangladesh acquired a whole new meaning. When he placed his four demands ---- as a precondition for participation at the 25 March session of the Pakistan National Assembly --- among which demands was the necessity of a transfer of power to the elected representatives of the ...
Commentary
What does the WB have to say now?
Syed Badrul Ahsan
What does the WB have to say now?The question is simple, one which the World Bank should have no difficulty answering. What does the global financial institution do now that the Ontario Superior Court has acquitted three men accused of bribery and attempted bribery in relation to the planned Padma Bridge in Bangladesh? The WB should not waffle here, should not dissemble ...
Reflections
When friends are a beautiful story . . .
Syed Badrul Ahsan
When friends are a beautiful story . . .Running into old friends is always a happy affair. Last week, it was sheer pleasure coming across Shamim Azad just outside the venue of the Ekushey Book Fair. She had come out of it and I was about to go in. Shamim Azad, whom I have known for a long time, especially since I was ...
Reflections
When friends are a beautiful story . . .
Syed Badrul Ahsan
When friends are a beautiful story . . .Running into old friends is always a happy affair. Last week, it was sheer pleasure coming across Shamim Azad just outside the venue of the Ekushey Book Fair. She had come out of it and I was about to go in. Shamim Azad, whom I have known for a long time, especially since I was ...
March 1971 in Quetta
Syed Badrul Ahsan
March 1971 in QuettaIn March 1971, I was more than a thousand miles away from Bangladesh. In Quetta, where I lived with my parents and my siblings, it was a long exciting moment to be alive. Throughout March, indeed beginning with the general elections of December the preceding year, every Bengali family in the capital of Baluchistan looked ...
March 1971 in Quetta
Syed Badrul Ahsan
March 1971 in QuettaIn March 1971, I was more than a thousand miles away from Bangladesh. In Quetta, where I lived with my parents and my siblings, it was a long exciting moment to be alive. Throughout March, indeed beginning with the general elections of December the preceding year, every Bengali family in the capital of Baluchistan looked ...
The disturbing lessons from the transport strike
Syed Badrul Ahsan
The disturbing lessons from the transport strikeIt is a bizarre situation. It is an unreal, dark image of society before us. Ministers belonging to the same government sit on opposite sides of the fence, or the table as the case might be, to thrash out a solution to an illegal strike resorted to by transport owners and workers across the country. ...
Comment
The disturbing lessons from the transport strike
Syed Badrul Ahsan
The disturbing lessons from the transport strikeIt is a bizarre situation. It is an unreal, dark image of society before us. Ministers belonging to the same government sit on opposite sides of the fence, or the table as the case might be, to thrash out a solution to an illegal strike resorted to by transport owners and workers across the country. ...
A Pakistani 'scholar', his book and unadulterated insanity
Syed Badrul Ahsan
A Pakistani 'scholar', his book and unadulterated insanityAfter the fiction-peddling Pakistan apologist Sarmila Bose, we have a new myth-maker in our midst. Junaid Ahmad sets out on a mission to explode 'myths' behind the creation of Bangladesh. Ironically, he ends up being a maker of myths. And that is not all. His fiction, a result of a fervid imagination at work, begins ...
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