Insulting the President Is Not Politics, It Is an Attack on the State
It is difficult to say how many years this nation will have to pay the price for the damage Yunus has done, not only to the state of Bangladesh, but also to its society.
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It is difficult to say how many years this nation will have to pay the price for the damage Yunus has done, not only to the state of Bangladesh, but also to its society.
I had the opportunity to meet Raghu Rai for the last time in 2013, when he came to Dhaka for his exhibition titled Bangladesh: The Price of Freedom at Bengal Gallery in Dhanmondi.
Through the Iran war, the world’s traditional understanding of military power has changed.
At that time, Syeda Zohra Tajuddin (the wife of Bangladesh’s first Prime Minister, Tajuddin Ahmad) was serving as the convener of the Awami League.
The politics of the Awami League has now been banned through the passage of a law in parliament.
The war between America and Iran is a contest between unequal military powers.
There are many glorious histories of political struggles across different countries. There are also glorious histories of wars of independence.
In contemporary understanding, a Brahmin is called “twice-born” because he is born once from his mother’s womb, and a second birth is assumed through the rite of initiation (upanayan).
There is no day in the political history of the Bengali nation more important, or more worthy of pride, than 7 March.
Returning home on 21 August 2004, it had already turned into 22 August by the time I arrived.
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