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15:57, Dec 15, 2019
‘The nightingale has flown’
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Memories come alive. History is rekindled in the mind, indeed in our collective consciousness, as we recall the tumultuous days of December...
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13:40, Dec 08, 2019
Things fall apart . . . Pakistan in December 1971
Syed Badrul Ahsan
On the eve of the surrender of Pakistani forces in Bangladesh in 1971, the regime of General Yahya Khan continued to be in a state of denial. It...
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16:48, Dec 01, 2019
Our December chronicles
Syed Badrul Ahsan
December has a resonance in the history of the Bengali nation. There is a poignancy which underpins it. There is a mix of poetry and politics which...
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12:09, Nov 24, 2019
Pakistan’s history of hostage politics
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif has finally made it to London. Life for him has been quite a mess in the last few years, with...
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10:48, Nov 17, 2019
The politics and contradictions of Maulana Bhashani
Syed Badrul Ahsan
It is time to remember a giant in Bengali politics. Forty-three years ago, on 17 November 1976, Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani died. A whole era...
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16:25, Nov 10, 2019
A vice chancellor ... in an ideal world
Syed Badrul Ahsan
The incontrovertible truth about higher education in the country today is the depths to which it is relentlessly being pushed. Teachers are by and...
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11:30, Nov 03, 2019
A November elegy
Syed Badrul Ahsan
The stream of history set in motion in Bangladesh after Liberation in December 1971 has been a tortuous and painful one. You need to sit back and...
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15:50, Oct 27, 2019
Henry Kissinger: brilliant scholar, flawed diplomat
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Narendra Modi has lately become enamoured of Henry Kissinger. Reputation, for some men who have always been in the public eye, travels a good many...
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17:40, Oct 20, 2019
Of men, murder and mystery
Syed Badrul Ahsan
On 16 October 1951, Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, chief lieutenant of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and Pakistan’s first prime minister, was assassinated as he...
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19:57, Oct 06, 2019
Imran Khan’s call, Hoodbhoy’s comments and Pakistan’s 1971
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Quite a good deal of comment as also cynicism has been generated by Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s recent telephonic call to Bangladesh Prime...
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01:00, Sep 28, 2019
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...
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15:26, Sep 22, 2019
State of the nation
Syed Badrul Ahsan
The general secretary of the Awami League has had an angry riposte to BNP leader Abdul Moyeen Khan. Obaidul Quader has let Khan know that the...
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15:56, Sep 15, 2019
This country is in need of smart diplomacy
Syed Badrul Ahsan
We will soon have a new foreign secretary, in a matter of months if not more. That is certainly good news, for nothing is more important for a...
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16:18, Sep 08, 2019
‘Give my mother back to me!’
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Re-reading Yasmin Khan’s The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan rekindles the old tales of the destruction of history and the...
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17:50, Sep 01, 2019
The party of General Zia
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Forty-one years ago, on 1 September 1978, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party was floated in politics by the country’s first military ruler Ziaur...
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13:26, Aug 26, 2019
Muzaffar Ahmed and NAP in Bangladesh’s history
Syed Badrul Ahsan
At the Round Table Conference convened by the tottering regime of Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub Khan in Rawalpindi in February 1969, Nawabzada...
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23:24, Aug 18, 2019
Three men in Bengali folklore
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Deshbandhu Chitta Ranjan Das saw his life drawing to an end in 1925, more than twenty two years before his beloved India would emerge into tortured...
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00:00, Aug 15, 2019
Bangabandhu . . . in his greatness, in his humility
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was one of us. He is part of us even as he, on an expansive canvas, is part of history.That pipe was his...
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18:36, Aug 04, 2019
Bengalis . . . in 1905, 1911, 1947, 1971
Syed Badrul Ahsan
One hundred and eight years after the annulment of the first partition of Bengal in 1911, it is perhaps time to reflect on old dreams and equally...
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18:33, Jul 28, 2019
Dengue runs riot … and yet it is no epidemic?
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sayeed Khokon was emphatic, not many days ago, that there was no dengue and that any talk about it was a rumour....
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