Fakhruddin Ahmed

LETTER FROM AMERICA

A man who lived life to the fullest

It is with a heavy heart today that I write about the passing of Faruq Ahmed Choudhury - a man whose presence loomed large not just for those of us who that the good fortune of knowing him, but for our entire nation.

7y ago

Orlando massacre underlines the urgency to crush ISIS

Muslim Americans were having a good week last week. As Americans watched the nationally televised funeral for Muhammad Ali on

8y ago

Muhammad Ali, forever the Greatest

In eulogising a hero, as Muhammad Ali was to me, the danger is that one may get carried away and heap undeserved superlatives on the

8y ago

RECENT KILLINGS TARNISH BANGLADESH’S TOLERANT IMAGE

Not only the European Union, but the rest of the world is also beginning to express concern about the spate of killings by extremists in Bangladesh over the last three years.

8y ago

Pakistan incrminates itself for war crimes in Bangladesh

When it comes to Bangladesh, Pakistan practices its own version of Holocaust denial and continues to behave like unrepentant Nazis. Pakistan never admitted to the crimes its soldiers committed against Bangladeshis in 1971.

8y ago

Tigers Need To Pick Up on their fielding

The recently concluded World T20 Championship in India started with a bang – with Martin Guptill of New Zealand hitting the first ball

8y ago

Acting fuels Trump's success, just as it did Ronald Reagan's

Whether Trump can win the presidency is unclear. Trump supporters may be angry, but the rest of America is not.

8y ago

Improving the Dhaka airport experience

Before deplaning, I make sure that I won't have to use the bathroom facilities for the one to two hours that I will spend in the terminal building. The stench of the bathrooms is overpowering! One shudders to think of the reaction of foreigners.

8y ago
October 19, 2015
October 19, 2015

Ben Carson is Getting Away with Incendiary Rhetoric

Carson's attack on President Obama is akin to a slave praising slavery. Because Carson is doing the Republican base's dirty work, he is being consistently rewarded with a second place finish in the polls.

September 20, 2015
September 20, 2015

How 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed's arrest backfired!

Up until September 14, fourteen year-old Ahmed Mohamed was an unknown teenager starting his freshman year at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas,

September 4, 2015
September 4, 2015

The rise and fall of “Bobby” Jindal

Two-term Governor of Louisiana, Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, the first Indian-American to be elected governor of a US state, is one of the 17

August 19, 2015
August 19, 2015

BANGLADESH'S ZAHID HASAN

Princeton University Physics Professor M. Zahid Hasan, born and brought up in Bangladesh, electrified the world of physics last month by discovering the elusive massless quasi particle, Weyl fermion, predicted 85 years earlier.

July 29, 2015
July 29, 2015

Republicans encounter the turbulence of Donald Trump

Just as the von Trapp family expressed their exasperation attempting to tame the free spirited Maria through a memorable song in The Sound of Music, the Republican Party is confronting the same dilemma with the irrepressible Donald Trump.

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