An album on the poet of politics
My first impression of Bangabandhu dates back to around the mid-sixties. A helicopter service had been in operation between Dhaka
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An avoidable mayhem
Last Tuesday, from the northerly Himalayas, a blustery wind cascaded down to Haripur area of Thakurgaon leaving a patch of ruins in
5y ago
Uprooting corruption: We can do better
The seasonal discussion on corruption is back in full swing following the release of Berlin-based Transparency International's global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), 2018.
5y ago
Which way is pluralistic democracy headed?
We have known democratic pluralism, pluralistic democracy and multi-party system to be synonymous terminologies. But is it as simplistic as that? Conceptually and ideally, it is; but in practice and real-world situations, it may not be so!
5y ago
Change of style or substance?
With at least 27 new faces and only a few septuagenarians around, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was greeted on her re-election to a record fourth term at Gono Bhaban on Tuesday.
5y ago
Sheikh Hasina's fourth term
It is the huge gaps in the numbers of votes polled by the winners and the losers in the 11th national election that apparently unveiled a “controlled and patterned” nature of the process of polls.
5y ago
Wintry mist from a non-level playing field!
If almost every past election in Bangladesh had been a test case for democracy, the one the nation is going to in two days' time is a veritable litmus test for the country's democratic future.
5y ago
Nomination cauldron bubbling away, electioneering heat awaited
It was for the BNP leaders “a strategy” of filing multiple sets of nomination papers to cover the contingency of rejections. This came in the way of 141 party nominees out of 696 who had applied to the EC for a go-ahead.
5y ago
August 26, 2016
Behind the camouflage
Lately, Pakistan-Bangladesh relations have been in the news, mostly for negative reasons, and very sparsely for the positive ones.
August 19, 2016
An elephant eloquent, instructive in his death
One can thus feel in one's bones the pain and trauma the wild elephant, separated from its herd by severe flooding in Assam, must have gone through all the way down to Bangladesh.
August 12, 2016
Our Population, Our Asset
We are a land-short country, somewhat proverbially, as it seems. Bangladesh does not exactly have a galloping population but a
August 5, 2016
Time to switch on a positive mode
Whatever institutionalisation has taken place among the well-run private universities benefitting the cause of higher education should not even be unwittingly put in peril.
July 29, 2016
The race for the White House is heating up
Brawn, brain and tears sum up the tone, temper and texture of the Republican and Democrat national conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia respectively.
July 22, 2016
Aftershocks of a failed coup
The truth of the matter is that military intervention in politics or attempted usurpation of power is an imposition on the people and is never supported by them.
July 15, 2016
Focus on the supply side of terrorism
It is true that many a terrorist attack may have been prevented due to good police and Rab work. What is equally true is an ample room for improvement
July 1, 2016
Thin line between populism and democracy
Britain is slowly getting its breath back after the last week's seismic earthquake of the Brexit verdict in a referendum.
June 24, 2016
A fresh look at Delhi-Dhaka ties
Avijit Mukherjee, son of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Lok Sabha MP, recently on a private visit to Dhaka, has left a good impression by his clarity of thought on a rather tangled issue.
June 17, 2016
A lone wolf left unguarded
Six days after the single-handed carnage at an Orlando gay nightclub, a coherent but incredibly bizarre narrative is emerging out of the nocturnal shadows.
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