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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 ...

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New Election Commission can make history . . . or repeat it

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Now that the President has appointed a new Election Commission, the next move will be one of seeing how the team led by Chief Election Commissioner-designate KM Nurul Huda performs. By any measure and through the years, Bangladesh's Election Commission has remained under pressure, with that taint, real or otherwise, of partisanship regularly undermining it ...

The search for a new Election Commission

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The search committee entrusted with the responsibility of proposing names to constitute the next Election Commission has been at work. There is little question that the six members of the committee are determined to make a good show of themselves as they go about their delicate business. It might even be possible for them to ...

Reflections

The search for a new Election Commission

Syed Badrul Ahsan

This is not the Awami League we know

Syed Badrul Ahsan

In violence which takes hold of Shahzadpur, Sirajganj, because two factions of the ruling party have reached the definitive conclusion that the solution to their conflict lies in the barrel of a gun, a working journalist takes a bullet and dies.And he dies, needlessly, at the hands of the Awami League. Two factions of the ...

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This is not the Awami League we know

Syed Badrul Ahsan

On This Day

February 1966, Six Points . . . and after

Syed Badrul Ahsan

On 5 February 1966, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, general secretary of the East Pakistan Awami League, revealed in Lahore a broad-ranging formula for regional autonomy. That formula was the Six Point plan, which in time would lead to a wider movement and eventually an armed struggle for East Pakistan's emergence as the independent People's Republic of ...

Reflections

A day spent in the warmth of home

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Advancing age often does something, indeed a number of things, to the sensibilities. It makes you go easy on yourself. It induces in you a certain sort of languor, the point of which is that it tells you to stay home and shut out the rest of the world. Solitude, if you must know, is ...

Press Club tales, lost combs and shameless men

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The National Press Club is an interesting place, and not just for exchanges of ideas. It is a spot where you get to meet your colleagues in the profession, many of whom were once with you in some newspaper or the other. And when you speak of newsmen working for English language newspapers, you know ...

The Special Envoy in His Gilded Cage

Syed Badrul Ahsan

There is something of the unique about former president Hussain Muhammad Ershad. In a world that does not look kindly on dictators, and fallen dictators at that, Ershad has been a great survivor. Cast your gaze at the world's diverse regions where military rulers once held center stage before falling and rising again. You have ...