Views & Opinion

Why BNP’s tirade against PM Hasina’s India visit sounds hollow

Sukharanjan Dasgupta: BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has claimed that PM Sheikh Hasina is "unable to deal with India". Bangladesh's Islamist opposition too seems to be on an overdrive to belittle Hasina whenever she is on a visit to India. But these high-pitch allegations ring hollow. Let's ask Mirza Fakhrul what his party ...

Economic Indicators Invalidate Opposition Claims

Dr. Pranab Kumar Panday: The 12th National Parliament elections of Bangladesh are scheduled for 2023, and the political game of different equations in Bangladesh has been on full display for some months. Despite being isolated for 13.5 years, the opposition party has just come out of its shell and made several inaccurate allegations against the...

August 21 grenade attack: A dark chapter for Bangladesh politics

Hiren Pandit: The Honourable Prime Minister (the then Leader of the Opposition) Sheikh Hasina, and the leaders of the Awami League miraculously survived a horrific grenade attack at an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004. However, 24 Awami League leaders and activists including Ivy Rahman were killed. Hundreds were injured. Many have been...

Price Hike and Some Pertinent Issues

Pranab Kumar Pandey: Bangladesh's extraordinary growth during the last 13.5 years has made it an international example. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has spearheaded Bangladesh's progress. By her example, Bangladesh has learned to persevere through adversity and emerge stronger today. Some predicted that Bangladesh would suffer severely from the...

Dhanmondi 32, Bangabandhu and our history

Syed Badrul Ahsan: It is a place suffused in history. It is the embodiment of national history. The home of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Dhanmondi 32 was in the 1960s and till the mid-1970s a proper centre of Bengali nationalistic aspirations. Today it is a hallowed spot, testimony to the supreme struggle and equally supreme sacrifices...