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The Salahuddin-in-a-Shillong-mental asylum-episode would have provided much needed comic relief had it not been such a sad description of our political scene. Here was a man who was a top leader of...
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Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval described Bangladesh as India’s “most important neighbour”, as the Sikri couple had done years ago. I remember Rajiv Sikri, then an additional secretary in...
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The Bangladesh flag is a symbol of what Bangladeshis treasure; it represents the values we cherish beyond measure. Our flag flies high for freedom, bravery, the courage to fight, and sacrifice of one’s...
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BNP has suddenly taken a new political turn. For the longest time they have been demanding a general election to be held under a neutral caretaker government. To force the government to accept their...
View ArticleIs the nightmare back?
After more than three months of political agitation and unfettered violence causing the death of over 150 innocent human lives, loss of over 700 public and private vehicles by fire bombing, and untold...
View ArticleApril retrospective: The “Online Machete”…
“April is the cruelest month” in the history of Rwanda. On 6 April 1994, a plane carrying the then Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi – both...
View ArticlePolitical comic opera or tragedy at work?
The Salahuddin-in-a-Shillong-mental asylum-episode would have provided much needed comic relief had it not been such a sad description of our political scene. Here was a man who was a top leader of...
View ArticleWhy Bangladesh is India’s ‘most important neighbour’
Indian National Security Advisor Ajit Doval described Bangladesh as India’s “most important neighbour”, as the Sikri couple had done years ago. I remember Rajiv Sikri, then an additional secretary in...
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