Views & Opinion

Ah, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Country

Syed Badrul Ahsan It was the sixth anniversary of the death of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy on December 5, 1969. It was also that particular moment in history when Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, while paying tributes to his political mentor, formally made it known that henceforth East Pakistan, the eastern province of Pakistan, would be known ...

The baby at 32 Dhanmondi - Syed Badrul Ahsan

  He was the baby of the family, the youngest of the five children of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Begum Fazilatunnessa Mujib. When he was born in October 1964, his father - the future Father of the Bengali Nation - named him Russell, after the reputed British philosopher Bertrand Russell. It was Bangabandhu’s acute sense of...

Bangladesh is booming and here's why: Sheikh Hasina

Many see Bangladesh as a 'market' of over 30 million middle- and affluent-class people and a 'development miracle'. To me, our strengths are the societal values and peoples' trust in Bangladesh. Equally, peoples' aspiration to progress and their resilience as well as their confidence in our leadership.My father, the Father of our Nation Bangaban...

SHEIKH HASINA, Reflections of a citizen -Syed Badrul Ahsan

The first time many of us came to know of Sheikh Hasina was on the day after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was freed from the Agartala Case and was released, along with his co-accused, unconditionally. On 23 February 1969, the Karachi-based newspaper Dawn carried a front-page picture of her hugging her father in what was clearly an iconic im...

Bangladesh: Approaching the Indian Ocean

Md. Shahriar Alam: For ages, Bangladesh has been a maritime nation. With around 700 long coastlines, traversed by over 200 rivers and 29 coastal islands and an even gradient to the coastal shelf, Bangladesh people have dynamic engagements with blue waters. With a contemporary focus on the blue sphere, Bangladesh is engaging in an open-ended ma...