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A divisive Trump in Lincoln's unifying America

Syed Badrul Ahsan

On the eve of his inauguration as President of the United States, a divisive Donald Trump was at the memorial that honours the unifying sixteenth President, Abraham Lincoln. A day before his inauguration as the 45th President of the United States, Trump had little difficulty in demonstrating to his country the contradictions and the ironies ...

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A divisive Trump in Lincoln's unifying America

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Reflections

In the company of book lovers

Syed Badrul Ahsan

On a beautifully cold day in December, my friend Kanan Puryakayastha and I met over lunch in the cafeteria of Waterstone's in Piccadilly, London. It was stimulating speaking of books and indeed of so many other issues around the world. Once lunch was over, we went up to the bookshop proper, for it would be ...

That farewell to power

Syed Badrul Ahsan

There is a certain charm in resignations and abdications by men and women in public life. And with that comes a bit of sadness in knowing that a resignation is in effect a cutting short of what could have been an illustrious career. When French president Francois Hollande made it known some weeks ago that ...

In the expansive light of God

Syed Badrul Ahsan

My faith in the Almighty has never wavered. My faith is my own and within the parameters of that faith I have found solace in the great miracle of Creation. There is little that is orthodox or conventionally religious about me, but every morning and every evening I pray in the depths of my soul. ...

Why are we turning into rude Bengalis?

IN BLACK & WHITE

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Are we as a nation turning increasingly rude? Time was when the Bengali was a model of decency and absolutely impeccable behaviour. You need to go back to the 1950s and 1960s, to our grandparents' and parents' generations, to comprehend the difference between then and now. These days, wherever you happen to be in this ...

Monem Khan . . . collaborator 'martyr'

Syed Badrul Ahsan

So the family of Abdul Monem Khan would like people to believe the late governor of erstwhile East Pakistan is a martyr! That is indeed interesting. One could in the same breath suggest that the Vichy regime in France was a team of patriots, that those who upheld apartheid in South Africa were guided by ...

The society of cats and dogs

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Cats and dogs live rather interesting lives, those that we often envy. Theirs is a society which often approximates the idealistic. That is not quite what you can say about the world of men and women, which is sad.On a night not long ago, about seven or eight dogs were playing happily on the empty ...

Stories of political betrayal

Syed Badrul Ahsan

There are a good many reasons why Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is remembered all these years after his tragic death through execution. A principal cause behind such remembrance is the manner in which he Ebetrayed those through whose benevolence he rose to the top before he finally perished.One recalls here the fawning letter he wrote to ...

All those Bangabandhu baiters . . .

IN BLACK & WHITE

Syed Badrul Ahsan

There is quite something to be said about those Bengalis who somehow cannot rest easy with the place of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in history.More than decades ago, Syed Najmuddin Hashim --- civil servant, diplomat and eminent scholar --- enlightened yours truly with remarkable tales of some Bengali civil service officers trapped in Pakistan in ...