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 and muse. The comments discreetly chided Government’s act as meanness, madness or dastardly....
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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, all the glory, joy and pride of Bangalee abruptly turned into numbness of pain, anguish...
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From the very beginning in post-liberation Bangladesh, the political progress had been murky and was marred with violent rivalry and blood spilling strife. Pro-liberation forces splintered into hostile camps which helped mighty resurrection of just defeated anti-liberation forces. Theory of conspiracies, both within and beyond the boundary, against the new nation was abound. The obvious...
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Photo: Thousands of Awami League supporters attended the pre-election AL meeting at Paltan ground today in order to meet their leader Sheikh Hasina who delivered her speech from behind a bulletproof glass screen. AL President Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to address public meetings at Comilla and Feni on Saturday en route to Chittagong. Dhaka,...
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General Moeen U Ahmed, then chief of Bangladesh Army handed over formal papers to a poor man of the dairy firm project at Gaibandha Ansar Institute. Gaibandha, Bangladesh. November 27 2007 Image by: Quddus Alam, DRIK News. By all means, after General Zia and General Ershad, General Moeen U Ahmed (MUA), the previous chief of Army,...
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Less than a month is too early to dissect a government for anatomy, rather it makes sense to forward a chart of preventive and predictive maintenance to the driver of the vehicle on which the whole country is now riding on a precarious uphill journey with sky high confidence. The destination is a better...
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To form a cabinet will be public’s first litmus test for Sheikh Hasina. To the public, it will be the very morning that will show them the days of next five years. The cabinet has to be a discreet blend of old and young, experience and commitment, patriotism and skill. Politicians, bureaucrats, subject experts...
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This article has been published in Feed Back column of the daily New Age on September 28, 2008, conveniently tailoring the theme, totally disfiguring writer’s view, in conformity with the editorial message of the same issue. I do believe that in the present partisan terrain of our politics, proposition of meeting of our two...
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