“Failed to utilize the administration”? Is Mr. Hassan claiming that there is a way his side could have used the administration to win the election? Perhaps he forgot that elections are supposed to be won at the ballot box, not by government intervention? The Prime Minister and leader of AL, and of course the...
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Poor Mahbub Alam Rodin. As I write this, he is probably experiencing what the business end of a police baton feels like. His crime? He allegedly uploaded some caricatures of the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and some other political figures to Facebook. So some idiots who can call the shots on...
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Dear Madam Prime Minister Why are you surrounded by incompetent idiots? We know it is unfair to blame you for everything, but in this case we will hold you personally responsible for this horrendous personnel decision. We are of course talking about the fact that the chief investigator of the War Crimes Tribunal himself...
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Unlike the militaries of Bangladesh of the past and Pakistan even now, the Indian military has always seen itself subordinate to its political masters. As one book review stated, “Independent India has never known a military coup d’état – scarcely even the rumour of one.” Even the harshest enemies of India and its military...
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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 colleagues, Bozlul Huda, Mohiuddin Ahmed, A. K. M. Mohiuddin, Syed Faruq Rahman and Sultan Sharhriar...
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The universe is again in balance. The deep disturbance in the cosmic force we felt has diminished, and we hear the birds signing. The dark cloud of decency and lawfulness that was threatening to envelope Bangladesh has been lifted! It was causing us major consternation when the prime minister directed the deputy commissioners to...
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Since the independence of Bangladesh until the 1990s, Bangladeshi citizens could not travel to Taiwan. The passports clearly stated: “Valid for all countries of the world except Israel and Taiwan.” Not that is stopped people: it was easy to go to Taiwan via Hong Kong; as long as the passport did not get stamped...
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First, a question to the journalists in Bangladesh. On August 21, 2004, 22 people died in a grenade attack at a AL meeting. The wife of the current president of Bangladesh was one of the victims. Hundreds of others, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina were injured. But Daily Star is calling it “Aug 21...
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Baul Shomrat (king) Shah Abdul Karim passed away on the September 11th, 2009. I had the privilege of listening to him singing many years ago and I still remember how it felt he was immersed in the song that was pouring out of his heart.
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You are not Ershad’s home minister. You are not the head of some thuggish student movement. You are not the caretaker government that sent the Army to Dhaka University and faught with the students. You are the home minister of a democratically elected government. You have personally faced the business end of a police...
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