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৬ আগস্ট ১৯৭৫ 6 Aug 2013 | 08:32 pm
৬ আগস্ট ১৯৭৫ তখন চট্টগ্রাম মেডিকেল কলেজের অধ্যক্ষ ছিলেন অধ্যাপক জোহা ন্যায় নিষ্ঠাবান এবং অত্যন্ত কঠোর এই চিকিত্সক শিক্ষক বিনা কারণে পরীক্ষা পেছানো ক্লাস ফাকি দেয়া ইত্যাদি কঠোর হাতে দমন করতে চেষ্টা...
Mahfuz Anam: On Sons 2 Aug 2013 | 02:56 am
Mahfuz Anam’s recent editorial, The Sons are Coming, makes for interesting reading. I advise readers to then go back and read a pair of his columns from 2007: How could BNP come to this stage?, writte...
The Krishna Option 27 Jul 2013 | 02:05 am
We are at, possibly, the last lull before the next storm hits Bangladesh. Ramadan will let BNP and AL figure out where they stand and what they want to do next. The months after Eid are likely to be a...
The Problem with Bangladesh ICT: A Snapshot 21 Feb 2013 | 06:36 pm
Sakti Saha, the son of a 1971 martyr, gave witness in the trial of Ali Ahsan Mohammed Mojaheed yesterday. By all accounts, it was a heartbreaking moment, as Saha broke down while describing his father...
The Crime and the messenger 13 Dec 2012 | 07:24 am
An interesting news came out of Afghanistan today. A senior judge was covertly tape recorded while asking for bribe and proposing to marry a woman whose divorce case he was handling. The fallout of th...
Connectivity and Communalism 13 Dec 2012 | 06:47 am
When I was a student in Bangladesh, my world was my campus, my TSC, evening tea stall adda, night-time hostel adda. I used to see the world around be by collective actions emotions among this surround...
ICT Controversy and my take on tapped conversations 11 Dec 2012 | 05:39 am
I have already been recommended to read at least three blogs about the recent hacked Skype conversations between International Crimes Tribunal Chairman Justice Nizamul Hoque and a Belgium based Bangla...
No Justice for Bishyajit Das 9 Dec 2012 | 08:23 pm
“Those who want to “help” (!) the country, they have some small addiction to hunting. To sate their hunger, it is the Bishyajits who have to be the hunted deer.” Ruling Awami League party activists ch...
December 5 and state of Bangali nationalism 5 Dec 2012 | 08:44 pm
December 5 — does it sound any significant? Is it a special day? Ask 10,000 people in the streets of Dhaka — I bet you will hardly find one who will be able to recall any event to make December 5 spec...
It's insanely insane down here 4 Dec 2012 | 09:15 am
The second term Sheikh Hasina Government has taken the country to a low of unbelievable proportion. Injustice, anarchy, suppression, hypocrisy — all have attained a level beyond the most skeptic’s wil...
