Bangla Bhai Story

The Daily Star, Dhaka, Bangladesh

The Bangla Bhai Story

Trading in death under shadow of govt

Julfikar Ali ManikTarique Rahman and several ex-BNP ministers directly patronised the outrageous operations of the JMB (Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh) in Rajshahi with the full knowledge of former prime minister Khaleda Zia, revealed an extensive The Daily Star investigation that was corroborated by top government officials in the region...................

What India Has Taught Me

Outlook India
For The Record

'What India Has Taught Me' I was born in Europe, but was soon claimed by another world more diverse and more ancient ... India has taught me above all else has taught me above all else that politics is not just the art of the possible; it can also be the art of the impossible. SONIA GANDHI

The full text of the Nexus Lecture, Living Politics: What India Has Taught Me, delivered by the Congress President and UPA Chairperson at the Nexus Institute, the Hague............

A Political Pornography

Outlook India
Magazine Political Pornography?

My book was not just on the military, but Pakistan's entire power elite AYESHA SIDDIQA
Have I written a political pornography or a Mills & Boon? It's the first question which came to my mind after I found myself in the middle of a storm in a teacup over the publication of my book, Military Inc: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy. The uproar has made me both sad and excited. Sad, because most commentators are trying to draw their own conclusions without having grasped the basic argument of my book. Many have not even read the book; those who have are focusing on its least important argument. Yet I'm excited by the fact that the book has got serving and retired military officers with varied ideological positions on a single forum-- to prove that my book is just a pack of lies meant to malign the armed forces...........

The Siren of Road map to Democracy

New Age

The siren song of ‘Roadmap of Democracy’

NM Harun

Here, in Bangladesh, the elites across the board ‘con-spire’, that is, breathe the same air of hate against the ‘two women’, Hasina and Khaleda, and have been nurtured essentially in an anti-politician mindset since General Ayub’s martial law of 1958. The ‘Roadmap of Democracy’, the latest project of the emergency rulers, may sound like a siren song to many of them
The government on Friday debarred Sheikh Hasina, the Awami League president, from going to the United States to attend to her pregnant daughter. One day earlier, on Thursday, the government did not allow her to go to Chittagong on a visit to the landslide-devastated areas. Hasina has been denied her freedom of movement both on private and public callings..........