Tag Archives: politics

Connectivity: The India-Bangladesh land bridge

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Himal Magazine February 2011 By Kanak Mani Dixit Can a formal bilateral communiqué be a ‘game changer’, foretell a ‘paradigm shift’, in a Southasian relationship? If India and Bangladesh manage to follow through on promises to open up their … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 6, 2011
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Bangladesh Profile

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Shahidul Alam Bangladesh will be 40 years old next year. Back in 1971, its civil war and declaration of independence gained global notice thanks to the Concert for Bangladesh, which drew over 40,000 to Madison Square … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on October 11, 2010
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September 22 is for remembering

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Daily Mirror THURSDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 2010 00:00 The 4th article of the Dasa Raja Dharma, Lord Buddha’s incomparable treatise on good governance is about Ajjava, i.e. honesty and integrity. The ruler, the Buddha said must be absolutely … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 25, 2010
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That’s not the way to do it

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Bangladesh Politics reverts to Punch-and-Judy type Jun 10th 2010 | Dhaka The ECONOMIST “THE chances of another coup in Bangladesh are close to zero,” says a former general in Bangladesh’s army. That sounds excellent. But the country’s … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on June 12, 2010
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Land and people. De-colonising the national imagination

By Rahnuma Ahmed I see no reason not to be worried. For we have, over the years, begun mimicking our erstwhile Pakistani rulers when it comes to explaining what went wrong in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. The `tribals’ want to … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 27, 2010
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My Sister’s Language

His eyes flitted forward and back, and having surveyed the scene for possible danger, it stopped. The head stooped, and that was how he stayed. Crouched on the floor of a bus full of Bangalis, the Pahari (hill person) amongst … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on March 2, 2010
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Two Kinds of Death and the Unattended ‘National Wounds’

By Saydia Gulrukh For the past few months, I have been preparing for an almost meaningless exam, one which graduate students in the US have to take, called ‘comps’ (short for comprehensive/PhD candidacy exam). During moments of sarcasm, we also … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on February 10, 2010
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In response to `Smoking gun abused for smokescreen’

By Rahnuma Ahmed As a New Age columnist, I was thinking of writing about the controversy surrounding the Tibet exhibition (Into Exile. Tibet 1949 – 2009, November 1-7) for my next column. My dear Maobadi friend, Tarek Chowdhury’s piece, which … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 22, 2009
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IMPERIAL COWARDICE: Remote control killing in Pakistan

by Rahnuma Ahmed WAR is, said Major General Smedley Butler, twice-recipient of the Medal of Honour (1914, 1915), ‘a racket’. He had seen it from close(st) quarters and had turned into an outspoken critic of the US military-industrial complex. Describing what … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 9, 2009
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China-US Politics over Exhibiting Tibet. In Dhaka

By Rahnuma Ahmed Writer and translator Tarek Omar Chowdhury, a committed Maobadi and a dear friend, was deeply worried. `Of course I do not support what happened, although I must admit I look at it  differently.’ He was referring to … Continue reading →

by Shahidul Alam Posted on November 22, 2009
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