From a distance, it looked like a usual chitchat a group of four youths were having in front of a roadside tea stall at Khamarbari intersection in the capital. A closer observation, however, revealed something different — they were expressing…
Intermediate first year student Rajib (not his real name) was walking down an almost empty city street on his way home from a coaching centre on a hartal day three weeks ago. Suddenly, he saw a miscreant exploding a crude…
For the 16 arson victims, who died in the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, it was almost like breathing fire until they finally gave up, say doctors. “During the attacks, they had to inhale a lot of heat…
“We have made you what you are; you have not made us. We live on our husbands’ earnings … you are playing games with us. We want a good government and not an ailing one.” Gita Sen, who suffered burns…
What we are witnessing today hardly meets the definition of political programmes or agitation. The situation is radically assuming the character of subversion, particularly the acts of Jamaat, a recognised political party, following the execution of Quader Mollah. Targeting political…
Bangladesh has experienced a long political journey of forty two years and during this period it had been ruled by several different political regimes (Mujib, Zia, Sattar, Ershad, Khaleda and Hasina regimes). During this period, sometimes broadly acceptable democratic regimes…
Apopular game in Central Asia, known as Buzkashi, is played between two rival horse mounted teams in which a headless goat carcass is the object of contest to be dragged into the goal. The team that can snatch the carcass…
Politics in Bangladesh received a massive jolt through the assassinations of the Father of the Nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and the four national leaders between August and November 1975. And then came a point when General Ziaur Rahman, as…
