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Bangabandhu’s foreign policy legacy can still guide us
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Bangabandhu’s foreign policy legacy
Bangladesh this year celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence as well as the birth centenary of our Father of the Nation. On August 15, the nation also mourns the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu 46 years ago—a heinous act designed to erase all that he stood for.
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Bangabandhu: the architect of Bangladesh's foreign policy
We celebrate 2020 as “Mujib Borsho”, to mark our Founding Father Bangabandhu’s birth centenary; we also mourn, and reflect on, his brutal assassination 46 years ago on the 15th August 1975.
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Coping with coronavirus and preparing for a life after it
April 13 was Easter Monday, an everlasting testimony to the resurrection of Christ after his crucifixion and its symbolic assertion that there is life after what is perceived as death. In the midst of a somewhat stifling home confinement in fear of the ubiquitously merciless and relentlessly marauding novel coronavirus, somehow the day and its symbolism was comfortingly reassuring.
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Preparing for a post COVID-19 world
Three days ago, on March 25, listening to a briefing on the then available latest global statistics about the COVID-19, I learnt that the global total of recorded cases was then a little over 400,000, spread across over 169 countries.
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April 7, 2024
Why the Himalayan Third Pole is crucial in climate governance
The Hindu Kush Himalaya region is of seminal importance to climatic changes affecting our planet.
May 11, 2023
The Bay of Bengal and Bangladesh in the Indo-Pacific region
The Bay of Bengal countries have the potential to form a cohesive community that fosters economic cooperation, promotes peaceful connectivity, and addresses common challenges, charting a path towards prosperity and security for the region and beyond.
August 22, 2022
Bangabandhu’s foreign policy legacy can still guide us
Bangladesh's geostrategic importance has catapulted astronomically with global focus swivelling to the Indo-Pacific region.
May 24, 2022
Bangladesh and the US need each other
Our Planet Earth was so named by human beings who are essentially terrestrial creatures. But how would a visitor from outer space, from another planet or galaxy, react on discovering our planet for the first time?
August 15, 2021
Bangabandhu’s foreign policy legacy
Bangladesh this year celebrates its 50th anniversary of independence as well as the birth centenary of our Father of the Nation. On August 15, the nation also mourns the brutal assassination of Bangabandhu 46 years ago—a heinous act designed to erase all that he stood for.
September 7, 2020
Bangabandhu: the architect of Bangladesh's foreign policy
We celebrate 2020 as “Mujib Borsho”, to mark our Founding Father Bangabandhu’s birth centenary; we also mourn, and reflect on, his brutal assassination 46 years ago on the 15th August 1975.
April 18, 2020
Coping with coronavirus and preparing for a life after it
April 13 was Easter Monday, an everlasting testimony to the resurrection of Christ after his crucifixion and its symbolic assertion that there is life after what is perceived as death. In the midst of a somewhat stifling home confinement in fear of the ubiquitously merciless and relentlessly marauding novel coronavirus, somehow the day and its symbolism was comfortingly reassuring.
March 30, 2020
Preparing for a post COVID-19 world
Three days ago, on March 25, listening to a briefing on the then available latest global statistics about the COVID-19, I learnt that the global total of recorded cases was then a little over 400,000, spread across over 169 countries.
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Implications of coronavirus for regional and global cooperation
As the coronavirus pandemic continues marauding the globe, flattening developed and undeveloped, urban and rural, national and regional landscapes, blithely jumping across oceans and continents, one may be forgiven for thinking, somewhat desperately: is this the advent of Armageddon in our times?
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Bangabandhu and his timeless exhortations to the nation
One cannot conceive of India emerging as an independent, modern nation-state without the leadership of Gandhi,
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