Awami League - Himal Southasian (Page 5)

Friendship at arms-length

Bangladesh really does not matter, but China is willing to remain a good friend. The defining moment in Sino-Bangla relations probably came during the killings of 1971, when Beijing chose

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Jun 1998

Waiting for the Islamic moderniser

Secularism is not an overwhelming reality in Bangladesh. Scholarly dissection of Islam in Bangladesh has forever posed the interaction of an outside religion with a native culture. The introduction of

By Chanchal Sarkar

/ 1 Feb 1998

Dhaka Deja Vu

Khaleda Zia of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has declared that she will begin her movement to dislodge Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of the Awami League after the Eid festival

By The Editors

/ 1 Feb 1998

Farhad Mazhar: Left for what?

The Bangladesh government's 1995 case against poet and activist Farhad Mazhar resulted from the publication of his article, "The Ansar Rebellion", in the Bengali magazine Chinta.

By Naeem Mohaiemen

/ 1 Jan 1998

Hartal in the Time of War

The general elections held last year merely changed the seats of the belligerent parties and not the state of political war within Bangladesh. For the moment, the political tension in

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 1997

Sharbahara: Class Hatred in Rural Bangladesh

What started out as class war on behalf of the proletariat has degenerated into gang war in support of landlords and petty politicians. Maoism is no longer flagging its little

By Afsan Chowdhury

/ 1 Sep 1997

Care Takers

Democratic decay in most countries in South Asia has suddenly made it fashionable once more to say some pretty (politically) incorrect things in public. Things like: maybe things were better

By The Editors

/ 1 Jan 1997

EXPERIMENTS WITH CARETAKER

The successful conclusion of elections in Bangladesh on 12 June can be credited largely to a constitutional innovation—the provision included by the 13th constitutional amendment earlier this year which

By The Editors

/ 1 Jul 1996