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Syed Badrul Ahsan

There was a time, and that was when the Soviet Union was yet around, when American presidents kept a hawk's eye on what the leadership in Moscow was up to. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman were constantly in a state of alert about what Joseph Stalin might be planning. Wariness about each other defined ...

Shouldn't Syed Abul Hossain's honour be restored in government?

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Is it not time to restore the honour of Syed Abul Hossain by reinstating him to his place in the government as he has come out of the allegations with a clean chit by a verdict of a Canadian court? He was stripped off his cabinet post, MP nomination and ruling party position in view ...

Shouldn't Syed Abul Hossain's honour be restored in government?

Syed Badrul Ahsan

American Presidents and their lies

Syed Badrul Ahsan

It is simply amazing how lies and falsehoods on a grand scale are taking hold of Washington under the Trump presidency. Time was when lying, at least from those holding public and elected office, was frowned upon. And the price paid for lying was severe. We have before us the none too savoury instance of ...

Pahela Falgun

In the trappings of fragrance . . .

Syed Badrul Ahsan

It is a day, just a day. And yet it is a day with a difference. It is Pahela Falgun today.On Pahela Falgun, there is an explosion of colours, a breaking of new ground in the ambience of poetry which is so much the spirit of this land.It is a turning of the seasons we ...

What does the WB have to say now?

Syed Badrul Ahsan

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 ...

What does the WB have to say now?

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Lazy Thoughts

The good that conversations do

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Good conversations are rare these days. That again is only natural when politics becomes polarized, to a point where every discussion on affairs of state falls under the shadow of the partisan. Besides, there is too the fact that consumerism, which has in these past few decades been a predominant factor in Bengali life, has ...

All those childhood associations…

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Myanmar, or Burma as it used to be known before its generals decided on a change of name, has lately been in the news. The Rohingya issue goes on giving it a bad name. That does not seem to have embarrassed its leaders, especially its democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, at all. But again, ...

Friday Notes

Janatar Mancha tales, coaching centres and new newspapers

Syed Badrul Ahsan

So we now have a new Election Commission in place. The search party has done its work and has gone home. But if you thought everything was in order, you would be wrong. The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has already made it known that it is unhappy about the new team taking over and has ...