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As Nirmul Committee celebrates it’s 32nd founding anniversary, the question that becomes pertinent is what will be the focus of this largest and probably the longest running civil society movement in the world with its ‘huge global presence beyond the perimeters of Bangladesh. This quest...
Our first meeting came to me as surprise, as although I was aware that the party where I was invited will be having important guests, including diplomats, but had no clue that this fine gentleman was going to be one of them. We have been connected through face book, but from my face booking experien...
In an article, Hoodbhoy wrote, "The mega surrender of 1971 made West Pakistanis eat humble pie. But, even as the two-nation theory went out of the window, the overwhelming majority was loath to change its thinking. The west wing renamed itself Pakistan, many assuming this was temporary. They sa...
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The nine months course of liberation war of Bangladesh was full of ups and downs. At times it was the Mukti Bahini that had the upper hand, while at times it was the opposite. Similar examples are there in December also. December 16 is the most glorious day in the history of the Bengali nation, but ...
Although my antigen test tested negative the night before, I went to bed with my heart beating fast at the height of tension, since I developed florid COVID-19 symptoms including fever, running nose and lose motion from last afternoon. I was pretty convinced that I was down with COVID for the s...
Due to devastating effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection and complicated pathologies of COVID-19, several antiviral drugs were provided emergency use authorization (EUA), such as hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, favipiravir, remdesivir, nitazoxanide, lopinavir/ritonavir as well as other proteases. As the p...
August is the darkest month in the calendar of the Bengali Nation. This is the reason why we not only remember Bangabandhu and the fallen heroes of August 15, 1975 with respect during August, but we also remain busy analyzing the events that led to the August tragedy and its aftermath. Aug...
In 2020, the Covid-19 paralyzed all sectors worldwide as one of the major catastrophes of the century. The virus spread around the globe within a relatively brief span after it appeared in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It also brought changes in people's behaviour, along with its negative impa...
It came as a pleasant surprise to me, when about a week back I received a telephone call from the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, extending invitation to me to meet with the honorable Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Dhaka visit in connection with the dual official celebrations of bir...
‘Bangabandhu is a hero to all Indians and not only to the Bengali people’ was what Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted on the occasion of the 101st birthday of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Identifying Bangabandhu as the custodian of humanity and independence, Prime Minister...
“Dada how are you? Didi where are you working now?”- such affectionate reception from a foreign Premier simply meant satisfaction unbound. It so happened that the hon’ble Bhutanese Prime Minister Dr. Lotay Shering, Professor Nuzhat Choudhury and I had spent some of the most memorab...
Despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and despite the fact that COVID-19 has suddenly taken an upward turn in Bangladesh, it will be no exaggeration if one says that Bangladesh is now passing through the happiest times in her history since her journey of an independent statehood began. We are celebr...
When the nation is celebrating the birth centennial of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, one will be taken by surprise if someone argues that it’s also the century for Bangladesh also. Who does not know that the nation is currently passing most festive times of it’s history as the duel ...
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Europe was grappled with fresh round of alleged terror attacks, first in France and then in Austria, that made global headlines, something very unusual during these corona-days, when hardly any news unrelated to COVID-19 is to be seen anywhere in the front or back pages...
As the nation celebrates 49th anniversary of victory, the question most frequently asked is where does Bangladesh stand today? The journey was not at all an easy one. Bangabandhu’s Bangladesh started from scratch. Very little had been contributed to the economy and infrastructure of the then E...
The newly appointed Indian High Commissioner Vikram Kumar Doraiswami made his presence felt well before his arrival. Being possibly the first envoy to take the land route instead of the aerial one to arrive at his new station, his arrival was already a talk of the town by the time he reached. It may...
It was about the same time last year. Although Covid-19 pandemic was yet to interfere with our right to free movement, we were already experiencing surge of the dengue outbreak. Though the dengue surge did not reach anyway near the height of Covid-19, it did extend beyond our borders and in the neig...
Bangladesh is once again in the headlines following a recent IMF report, more so in India than in Bangladesh. Discussions began in the India media, while the local mainstream and social media became enthusiastic subsequently. The IMF report has already been discussed much and is already old consider...
From eternity Bangladesh has harbored and nurtured communal harmony. Our history is testimony to this statement. Muslim rulers in the middle age patronized kirton by the Baishnava poets. Similarly Buddhist Pal rulers never opposed the religious freedom of the Baishnavas. Communal harmony gains ...
He rose from a remote village in Gopalganj and eventually led the nation to its independence. There is hardly any second example of this in the world. No wonder he is duly regarded as the greatest son of this land situated on the banks of the Padma, Meghna and Ganges and the shores of the Bay of Ben...
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