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An impassioned account of revulsion for BNP and Tareque

March 11, 2010
By Rasel Pervez

The opposition party, Bangladesh Nationalist Party or BNP has decided to observe 7th March as the Jail Day as on this day, Tareque Rahman, now senior vice-chairman of BNP, was taken into custody by caretaker government for corruption and abuse of power. Zealously BNP also termed it as...
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Much Ado About Nothing

March 9, 2010
By Maskwaith Ahsan

I am almost as old as Bangladesh. While I may not be considered young anymore, my country is still a child. Thirty-nine years is nothing but the age of teething in the life of nations. The country still needs to be...
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Signboard Change: A Political Correction

March 4, 2010
By Manirul Islam

The neon of ZIA finally went off. Speculations buried but the action has spawned enormous demagogy in all type of media formats, as usual. More than BNP had it, it gave our gloriously neutral intellectuals fodder to indulge profusely in munch...
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Chaotic Energy Situtaion in the Offing

February 26, 2010
By E-Bangladesh
Chaotic Energy Situtaion in the Offing

On June 23, 2009 in the Energy related round table conference at CIRDAP Auditorium, Dhaka, we made several recommendations to confront prevailing and emerging energy crisis. The round table was attended by the Energy Advisor of Prime Minister, current...
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The Saga of Benglish

February 20, 2010
By Maskwaith Ahsan
The Saga of Benglish

In most interactions with Kolkata journalists, writers and artists, I have found them to praise Dhaka as the beholder of Bangla language. Going over my signature in Bangla, even a hotel manager in Kolkata tearfully exclaimed: “You Bangladeshis have...
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The repeal of the Fifth Amendment : Musings

February 18, 2010
By Rasel Pervez
The repeal of the Fifth Amendment : Musings

Was it necessary? – was my first reaction after hearing this news. Awami League-led government has decided to change the name of Zia International Airport to Hazrat Shah Jalal International Airport. Sad but true, this cabinet meeting was...
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Contemplations on Politics in Bangladesh

February 7, 2010
By Maskwaith Ahsan

The row between the government and the opposition remains repetitive and as time-wasting as Samuel Beckett’s stagnant stage of Waiting for Godot. Nothing changes. People don’t get security or health service from the state; education fails to accommodate a...
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Bangladesh Student League, stumbling block of a democratic Awami League

February 3, 2010
By Rasel Pervez

Bangladesh is possibly the most undemocratically democratic country in the world. Since its emergence, it has been ruled, in total, for 17 years by meta-democratic, often military-led regimes and born-out-of-Cantonment pseudo-democratic parties. Here party councilors do not elect political...
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Happy Bangla Blog Day is Celebrated

February 1, 2010
By E-Bangladesh
Happy Bangla Blog Day is Celebrated

The first day of February, the beginning of the month in which the primary foundations of Bangladesh were launched in the year of 1952. It was the month and the day 21st of that month when our language was...
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Un-student Politics

February 1, 2010
By Maskwaith Ahsan
Un-student Politics

We have been hearing about the glory of Bangladesh student politics since our childhood but unfortunately that struggle has lost all signs of its industrious past. Students’ role in the language movement obviously ranks as historic; the uprisings of...
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The Dawn of a New Day

January 29, 2010
By Manirul Islam

16th December, 1971 – the milestone of victory of Bangalee, after a brief interlude of couple of years morphed into an epitaph of failure. In the wee hours of the fateful night of 15th August, 1975, all our gains,...
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The murderers are dead. Let the healing begin

January 28, 2010
By j@shadakalo

After 34 years, 5 of the killers of Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibor Rahman got their due. After a two-decade long legal process winding through the courts, delayed by direct and indirect obstruction of justice by Moudud Ahmed and his BNP...
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Killers of Bangabandhu Walked into Gallows

January 28, 2010
By Kh.A.Saleque.
Killers of Bangabandhu Walked into Gallows

Five condemned killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were hanged early today at Dhaka Central Jail amid tight security. Mohiuddin Ahmed (artillery) was first to be executed at 12:05am and then four others walked to the gallows one after...
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A mine of thieves

January 24, 2010
By Maskwaith Ahsan

Once the historic task of the independence of Bangladesh was accomplished, Father of the Nation Sheikh Mujibur Rahman thought building up the new nation would be a comparatively easy task. But the post-independence scenario came as a shock realization...
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Ordinary(?) request to Tanjim Ahmed Shohel Taj

January 24, 2010
By Rasel Pervez

Tanjim Ahmed, who resigned as state minister for home, is returning on Wednesday after a seven-month stay abroad. There was wide speculation on June 1 that the Tanjim would resign. Some dailies published news stating that...
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