Riding on a massive wave of “parivartan” (change), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance achieved a landslide victory, winning 86 seats in the 126-member Assam assembly. After remaining in power for the last 15 years, Congress suffered a humiliating defeat, securing just 26 seats. In 2011, the Congress emerged as the single largest party bagging… Read more »
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Barack Obama has earned his Nobel
Barack Obama has earned his Nobel Prize for Peace seven years after he came by it rather prematurely. By the time he leaves office in January next year, he will have accomplished tasks which rarely will any of his predecessors, in terms of broad history, be in a position to match. John F. Kennedy committed… Read more »
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As Bandarban starves we do almost nothing
Death by bullets and swords are few compared to deaths by starvation caused by famine. In Bengal alone, 17 million estimated people have died since 1770 and we have not even remembered them. No death figure in the regional history comes even close to that. The enemy didn’t come with guns but bad policy and… Read more »
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Energy transition in Bangladesh
A massive movement against using fossil fuels is taking place all around the world. Germany has created an example for others by taking attempts to shift traditional sources of energy to 100 percent renewable energy. Basically, energy transition is appreciated for reducing carbon emission and facing the challenges of global warming sustainably. Very recently, Bangladesh… Read more »
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Memories of Begum
Nurjahan Begum, the first female journalist in Bengal/ Bangladesh and the Editor of not just a magazine but a platform for female literature, particularly Bengali Muslim writing, has passed away. She had edited “Begum”, the first magazine for women in the subcontinent, for the last 65 years. She was doing her job before she fell… Read more »
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Our Hindu problem
Hindus formed thirty five per cent of the population of East Bengal at the time of the partition of India in 1947. By the time the people of East Bengal/East Pakistan decided to wage war for an independent Bengali republic in 1971, the number of Hindus in the province had declined to twenty nine per… Read more »