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Bangladesh'S Independence Day

Broken bridges and burned-out villages

Syed Badrul Ahsan

In Bangladesh, my country, it is a bunch of sad memories that come alive tonight. In the deepening hours of the night, a thousand miles from home, I am at my desk in a hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, as my fellow citizens back home and I prepare yet once more to remember the thousands done ...

25 March --- when a world burned

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The Pakistan army launched Operation Searchlight between 11.30 pm and midnight on 25 March. Armoured vehicles, tanks and trucks carrying soldiers rolled out of the cantonment and made their way to targets designated earlier. A very large group of soldiers moved towards the campus of Dhaka University and brought the residential Jagannath Hall of the ...

On This Day

Bangabandhu proposes confederation for Pakistan

Syed Badrul Ahsan

On March 24, 1971, the Awami League leadership stayed busy all morning working out the finer details of the economy-related issues of a proposed governmental structure for Pakistan. The Awami League still believed that a constitutional way out for a transfer of power from the junta to the elected representatives of the people was possible. ...

Bangladesh flags flutter in Dhaka

Syed Badrul Ahsan

What should, in normal times, have been a commemoration of the adoption of the 1940 Pakistan Resolution on this day, 23 March, turned out to be a moment when the Bengali nation collectively made it clear that Bangladesh was on the way. All across East Pakistan, the flags of Bangladesh were hoisted on homes and ...

He was - and is - the North Star in our sky

Syed Badrul Ahsan

In life, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman truly played out the role of Bangabandhu a grateful Bengali nation conferred on him once he was free of the Agartala conspiracy case in February 1969. In death, he appears to have far exceeded the limits of a posthumous reputation for greatness that was expected to be associated with his ...

Reflections

A transport strike, ministers and �assurances�

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Now that the transport strike is over, thanks to the intervention, of all persons, of Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan and State Minister for Rural Development and Cooperatives Moshiur Rahman Ranga, one wonders what happens to the judicial verdicts which prompted the strike in the first place. No one seems prepared to talk about the clear ...

Genocide Day: As it was in March 1971

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The adoption of a resolution by parliament on the observance of 25 March as Genocide Day raises the very critical question of the significance of the day. That question has nothing to do with the platitudinous or the emotional, though platitudes and emotions are always necessary components of the human experience everywhere. But now that ...

Discordant voices . . . and denial culture

Syed Badrul Ahsan

The Prime Minister is upset because the Finance Minister has had the nerve to praise the concept of micro-credit in the country. From the look of things, it is not clear that AMA Muhith was paying tribute to Muhammad Yunus. Indeed, there are reasons to think he was speaking about micro-credit in general terms and ...

Discordant voices . . . and denial culture

Syed Badrul Ahsan

Intellectual arguments in Bangabandhu's� 7 March oratory

Syed Badrul Ahsan

We need to bring about a wholesale change in our approach to history, the many aspects of it, we observe on a regular basis in Bangladesh. It is not enough to inform the nation, especially the younger generation, year after year of the events and incidents and happenings that have shaped the destiny of this ...