Mr. Sufi, Dr. Yunus has many hats to put on, one of them is a successful businessman and the other one is a Bangali politician. Unlike the first one, unfortunately, the latter could not gain any feather of success as yet. I shall briefly talk about his comet-like debut and meteoric disappearance in our politics. When all the windows of politics in Bangladesh were closed by our military and their henpeck government, he appeared in our dark political sky as a bright star of hope. And then, mysteriously, he opted out of politics, leaving dark sky even darker to the nation. Since then, he has been endorsing all the depoliticizing conspiracies of this regime directly or through his political spokesperson cum little brother Mr. Jahangir. Very recently, perhaps little more than a month or so ago, in USA, he again tipped his political loyal hat to the present regime. Not everyone supports democracy in politics. Only if you relish democracy, now may I ask you a question? In the context of Bangladesh, not of Little Rock, do you still feel yourself politically inferior to Dr. Yunus? Or, in our legacy of struggle for human rights, democracy, secularism and anti-imperialism, beyond demagogy, you find myriad of people having unambiguous and unflinching commitment to the country, very much superior but conflicting to the rule of corporate business or to military narcissism.

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Yunus`s endorsement of Hillary in the US and the unconstitutional military-backed government in Bangladesh reveals the fascist impulses and compulsions residing inside the two. While Hillary hopes that the only way she can assume her role as the first dictator in US history by eliminating Obama, Yunus is banking on decimating the top brass of Awami League and BNP including Hasina and Khaleda with help of close links with the fundamentalist elements in the army and th Bush administration.

Nobel Prize, particularly in peace has often been tainted with political intrigues which can be likened, in the context of Bangladesh, with the action plan of DUDAK. DUDAK is using it’s anti-graft campaign as a strategy to achieve it’s goal to decouple politics from public. Nobel Peace Prize, often seems to have a political agenda behind it’s peaceful façade. It gets mired in further controversies when an economist, instead of getting recognition for his giant contribution in economics, gets a peace prize.

Henry Kissinger has been indicted for war crime and bloody political conspiracies in Vietnam, Cyprus, Cambodia, Chile, East Pakistan and Bangladesh. He was the architect of ‘Operation Condor’ which unleashed killing, execution, disappearance and torture of hundreds of thousands of left political activists and intellectuals throughout Latin America in 70s. He received Nobel Peace Prize in 1973. Menachem Begin, in 1945 had dead or alive bounty of ₤10,000 on his head by British Imperial Administration in Palestine, won Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 with Anwar Sadat of Egypt for Camp David Peace treaty. The peace treaty has ever been collecting dust in the shelf of White House. Nobel Prize in Peace, literally, gave him the license of heinous crime to invade Lebanon and to slaughter hundreds of thousands of men, women and children in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps.

These are the few examples to expose the nobility and novelty of the Peace Prize. Dr. Yunus has joined the hall of fame of the global capitalist elites for turning poverty into a lucrative commodity for capital. To unmask his other face, take a snapshot of his recent choreography on our political stage when the curtain dropped to a mysterious end. But truly that is not the end. He is still lurking in the murky water of our post one-eleven politics. Remember, when DU campus exploded against present regime and then military sledge hammer came down ruthlessly on the teachers and students of DU, in frugally worded single sentence, our guardian angel expressed his reaction – ‘everything is going fine.’ During his recent visit to USA, Dr Yunus gave a keynote speech in front of the august audience of Commonwealth Club of California. Next day, he was speaking to a selected gathering of glamour-struck, myopic gold-fish Bangali community in USA. Please listen to these two speeches, if you can, which will help you diagnose the diabolic bipolarity of our Nobel Laureate Dr. Yunus.