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Rummana's books, Taslima's courage and Ershad's tome

Syed Badrul Ahsan

This year's Ekushey Book Fair, or Boi Mela in common parlance, made a difference for me. Simply stated, for the first time in three years I made it a point to visit the mela, the last two years having been a time when I was abroad when the book fair got underway. The many friends ...

History

When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became Bangabandhu

Syed Badrul Ahsan

On 22 February 1969, Vice Admiral A.R. Khan, Pakistan's defence minister, announced the unconditional withdrawal of the Agartala Conspiracy Case in Dhaka.Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the leading accused in the case and chief of the All-Pakistan Awami League, walked free from his prison cell in the Dhaka cantonment. He was escorted to his Dhanmondi residence for ...

Cases Against Khaleda Zia

BNP, elections and provocative statements

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, has served warning that if his party leader Khaleda Zia is convicted and goes to prison, there will be no election in the country. Note that the warning is essentially a threat. Alamgir has not said that the BNP will not participate in the ...

Cases Against Khaleda Zia

BNP, elections and provocative statements

Commentary

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Idle Thoughts

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Our youngest brother Nadeem will soon be putting his bachelorhood to an end. Only the other day he was a baby and we still remember how we --- the three brothers and a sister who preceded him --- fussed over him when our mother came home from the hospital with him. When the question came ...

Idle Thoughts

Two clans … and their happy secrets

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Jahanara Imam

Brilliance shining through the dark

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Jahanara Imam is today part of our history. And she is not merely because she is the mother of a martyr but also because in her was the epitome of all the mothers of all our martyrs during the War of Liberation. Again, her place in history was assured to a very great extent when ...

Pretender-prisoner Sasikala, 'no election' and White House imbeciles

Syed Badrul Ahsan

India's Supreme Court has sent Sasikala, the pretender to the leadership of the state of Tamil Nadu, to prison for four years. Had J. Jayalalithaa been alive, she too would be going to jail with her companion. Both women, notorious for corrupt dealings, had been under investigation for years. Jayalalithaa, who earlier spent time in ...

Shouldn’t Prof Yunus regret his role?

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Professor Muhammad Yunus, our Nobel laureate, has of late been in the news again. Given that the Bangladesh government has now been given a clean chit by a court in Ontario over allegations of graft related to the Padma Bridge project, it is only natural that Yunus' role, or alleged role, in the decision by ...

Commentary

Shouldn’t Prof Yunus regret his role?

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