If he gets over his disenchantment with the nuclear daredevils of South Asia, Bill Clinton is slated to swing by Bangladesh, too, this October. Expect photo opportunities with cute street
Excerpts from an interview of Akhtar Hameed Khan taken by Dhaka features service NewsNetwork. The interviewers write: "Begum Akhtar Hameed Khan came and served us tea and snacks herself.
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
Protecting journalists by committee
Oppressive governments and terrorist organisations have a propensity to confuse the truth with bad news and to further confuse the news with the messenger. They labour
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
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
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.
The Internet is shedding its exclusivist character.
The internet evangelist Jeffery Barlow says that the Internet is the ultimate democracy. Others agree that it will take on the autocrats of
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
The Year That Was
edited by Ishrat Firdousi
Bantu Prahashan, Dhaka, 1996
Truth destroys all rosy notions of what a remembered war should be. War becomes a time where the
