Please tell us what is happenning ?

Please tell us what is happening

by Shamsher Chowdhury

Honourable Chief Adviser I am once again disturbed by the news that the ‘night runners of Bengal’ have visited the house of one of the teachers of the University of Dhaka. Do you not think that the lessons learnt from the last episode were bad enough? Could it be that the operation was carried out without your knowledge?......................

Megalomania usually brings disasters

Megalomania usually brings disasters

The interested quarters have floated an idea that the proposed dialogues between the government and the political parties should adopt a so-called Citizens’ Charter to be followed by any future elected government. This means the promoters of the dialogues want the political leaders to collaborate with the powers that be in improvising a sort of supra-constitution

NM HARUN

At the present juncture of the country, when the reforms agenda of the emergency regime has floundered, public discontent with the failures of the government in handling the food crisis and price spiral is rising and the emergency regime has lost much of its shine, the powers that be need either to redeem their pledge of returning power to an elected political government or find an excuse to extricate themselves from the bindings of that pledge..........................