The untruths around Bangabandhu
A retired deputy head of the BBC’s Bengali Service last week gave a new twist to Bangladesh’s history through a letter to The Guardian newspaper in London. He was responding to an article by Ian Jack on Bangladesh, which article we will, if we so wish, deal with later. At this point, note what this […]
‘Why did they kill Bangabandhu?’
“Why did they kill Bangabandhu? I’m feeling very bad [about it],” a six-year old Suha asked his father while visiting the Bangabandhu Memorial Museum in the city on Monday. The house at Dhanmondi Road 32, where the country’s founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members were killed by a handful of […]
Bangabandhu S M Rahman…
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was born in a respectable Muslim family on 17 March,1920, Tungipara village under the Gopalganj district. He was the third child among four daughters and two sons of Sheikh Lutfur Rahman and Saira Begum. Bangabandhu started his school life at Gimadanga primary school at the age of seven. At eighteen he […]
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the Saudi Raj
When Bangladesh became a free country, most Islamic nations held off recognition of Bangladesh. Even after Pakistan established diplomatic relations with Bangladesh many countries like Libya and Saudi Arabia did not extend recognition to Bangladesh. I have just returned from a trip to Bangladesh where I picked up a copy of “Mujibeyr Rokto Lal” by […]
An Excusive statement By Lawrence Lifschultz before the SC
A statement before the Supreme Court of Bangladesh By Lawrence Lifschultz Ref: Writ Petition 7236 of 2010 Regarding the Trial & Execution of Abu Taher in July 1976 My name is Lawrence Lifschultz. I am a writer by profession. In July 1976 I was South Asia Correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong) […]
The leader and political power
Politics is an astonishing profession — its most amazing component being the political power that propels it. Its mystic element has carried different meanings to many of its practitioners throughout history in all societies. There have been practitioners who used it without being aware of its inner content — the superficial application of it satisfying […]
