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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 ...

IN BLACK & WHITE

Every day, in every way, secular politics slides

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The big question today is whether we have any secular political parties around in the country. With all the outcry arising out of the inclusion of non-secular themes in school textbooks, issues we can only ignore at risk to ourselves, it is fairly obvious to citizens that the secular ethos which has consistently shaped our ...

We hail the Prime Minister's war against drugs

Syed Badrul Ahsan

As media people conscious of our responsibility to society, as citizens cognizant of the need to promote, support and encourage measures toward a promotion of the public weal, we acknowledge and hail the war on drugs and the peddlers of drugs Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has launched in the country. The damage that drugs have ...

Remembrances

They speak . . . from the land of timeless silence

Syed Badrul Ahsan

In expectation of a dawning of freedom, they fell into the grip of a terrible night. As they waited, close to forty six years ago, for the song of liberty to reverberate across this land, their lives were claimed by elements of darkness come from caves and mountain fastnesses a thousand miles away.Today, thousands of ...

Remembrance

The rise and fall of General Ziaur Rahman

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The followers of General Ziaur Rahman observed the eighty first anniversary of his birth last week. Ziaur Rahman's moment of glory came on the evening of March 27, 1971. At a time of intense darkness in the life of the Bengali nation, the young major, having repudiated the Pakistan army of which he had been ...

DU English department, lawmen breaking the law, our bookshops

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The thirty-first annual get-together of the Department of English of Dhaka University as also the thirtieth founding anniversary of the English Department Alumni Society (EDAS), together with the ninety-fifth founding anniversary of the department, will get underway at the Teacher-Student Centre this afternoon. In the years since my classmates and I finished our honours and ...

Remembrance

The martyrdom of Asad

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Asaduzzaman, a student of the department of history of Dhaka University, president of the DU unit and general secretary of the Dhaka city unit of East Pakistan Chhatra Union (Menon group), died on a tumultuous day in January 1969 while leading a protest march on the streets of Dhaka. His death occurred when Pakistan's security ...

The lying philistines who have seized Washington

IN BLACK & WHITE

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The lying philistines who have seized Washington

America now has a petulant nine-year-old as its new President. And Donald Trump has gathered around him some of the most ill-qualified men and women to serve in the White House and around it. There is the businessman Rex Tillerson, whose idea of diplomacy is as hazy as a bigot's about faiths other than his ...

The enduring appeal of Netaji

Syed Badrul Ahsan

A hundred and twenty years after his birth and seventy two years after he died or disappeared, in the corporeal sense of the meaning, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose continues to exert tremendous influence on Bengali lives. It is therefore only natural that in this month of his birth, we go back to him and try ...

Reflections

The enduring appeal of Netaji

Syed Badrul Ahsan