Views & Opinion

The Mournful Day

Sheikh Hasina: Road 32, Dhanmondi It was not dawn yet. Azan, the call for prayers from a faraway mosque was flowing through. All on a sudden sound of gunshots filled the air. Shots were being fired around a house on road 32 of Dhanmondi area in Dhaka. The house where the President of Bangladesh, Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur ...

One Point Movement Failed: Opposition opts for militancy?

Habibullah Mizan: Terror organizations and the extremist forces, which have carried out terror attack at Holey Artisan in the country, are now active after the failure of one-point movement by the main opposition parties. They are allegedly reorganizing their militants to destabilize the country, the counter terrorism and security experts made...

People fed up with so many BNP rallies

Habibullah Mizan: The frequent political rallies, which never took place elsewhere in the world, create untold suffering for the people and the densely populated city dwellers have become tired of such activities in the name of politics. The BNP leadership claims it is crying for democracy in Bangladesh, but leading political observers opine t...

US Congress Members’ Orientalist Discourse on Bangladesh

Dr. A J M Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan: Recently some American Congress Members indulged in an exercise of producing orientalist discourses on Bangladeshi politics. Two instances of such acts are prominent. In the first instance, a group of six members wrote a letter to President Biden “to stop human rights violations by the Sheikh Hasina Governm...

Begum Fazilatun Nesa: Sheikh Mujib's flame of inspiration

Begum Fazilatun Nesa was born on 8 August 1930 in Tungipara, Gopalganj, in a noble Muslim family. Her father was Sheikh Zahurul Haque and her mother was Hosne Ara Begum. Fazilatun Nesa was the younger of the couple's two children. Her elder sister Begum Jinnatun Nesa was 3-4 years older than her. Fazilatun Nesa's nickname was Renu. Sheikh Zahur...