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The Shahbag People
“How do we characterize or categorize the people of Shahbag? Who are the people of Shahbag? … What is the class character of this group, what excites or drives this group? Who they were during...
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Calculus of Killing: Something wicked this way comes
Miraj Uddin Ahmed, Source: Facebook Something wicked is this way coming? But what? We feel it is either more harsh AL or Army, and we think what can we do, this is our fate. But what if instead it is a...
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Faham A Salam: Why is online activism not winning?
“There are ten times as many people in an orphanage as there are on your friend list– don’t forget that.” Why is online activism not winning in Bangladesh? Faham Abdus Salam [Translated from Bengali by...
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Jamaat-e-Islami : To Ban or Not to Ban
Should Bangladesh government ban Jamaat? OK, before discussing should the government ban Jamaat, first let’s ask, can they ban Jamaat? Yes PM Hasina definitely can. In 2013 Prime Minister Hasina, in...
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Deep Politics, Part 2: One-eyed world of the “civil war” roadmap
Deep Politics, Part 2: One-eyed world of the “civil war” roadmap by Faruk Wasif; translated by Tibra Ali ©bdnews24 In boxing, fighters need to be alert of each other’s every move. The hunter too...
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The Jamaat Factor
A train set on fire by activists of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh Delwar Hossain Sayedee, an Islamic preacher and a senior leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, the country’s largest Islam-pasand...
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If you come to kill, I will say, I too am Hindu, I too am Minority, this...
319 attacks on Hindu properties in 24 days © Prothom Alo If you come to kill, I will say, I too am Hindu, I too am Minority, the land that is burning is my country by Faruk Wasif, translated from...
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And meanwhile, in Kolkata …
Scanned copy of KALAM newspaper For any non-Bangladeshis even remotely following politics and events in that country, it is clear that the situation on the ground is getting very bad. But not to worry....
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Is Dhaka the last remaining Bastion of the state?
AFP Photo I will not be as sensational, as dramatic and as much a pessimist to compare current day Bangladesh to Syria. Bangladesh is not Syria and I strongly believe Bangladesh will NOT become Syria...
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The “Islamic”“subaltern”: but why are the signs in English?
© BdNews24.com In a different context, Gayatri Spivak asked, “Can the subaltern speak?” If not, there are interpreters. Much has been said, by Farhad Mazhar, among others, about the “subaltern” nature...
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Zia Hassan: I don’t recognize this verdict as anything other than yet another...
I am sorry to say that I don’t recognize this verdict as anything other than yet another move in the post-Shabag election game plan by Zia Hassan, translated by Tibra Ali for AlalODulal.org One of the...
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Perils of Bollywood-Dhallywood copying Amadmi to Am Janata Party of Bangladesh
by Zia Hassan, translated by Nayma Qayum for AlalODulal.org Those who want to float a party for the common people, who dream of rescuing Bangladesh from the two predators, must not only take away …...
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Placing the Voices of Shahbag in Modern Narratives of Transnational Youth...
If trolling through history reveals involvement of youth in political or socioeconomic upheavals, in case of Bangladesh their raison d’etre has been simple and straightforward: to bring about...
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Placing the Voices of Shahbag in Modern Narratives of Transnational Youth...
If trolling through history reveals involvement of youth in political or socioeconomic upheavals, in case of Bangladesh their raison d’etre has been simple and straightforward: to bring about...
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Jamaat-e-Islami : To Ban or Not to Ban
Should Bangladesh government ban Jamaat? OK, before discussing should the government ban Jamaat, first let’s ask, can they ban Jamaat? Yes PM Hasina definitely can.Continue Reading
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Golam Azam is dead.
by Nadine Shaanta Murshid for AlalODulal.org “I wonder. Did he consider his life’s work done: radicalization of people, sowing the dreams of the inevitable Islamic Caliphate that would drive away...
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Shahidullah Kaiser’s Son Speaks: Forgive me father, I could not keep this...
“A country whose soil is soaked in the blood of the martyrs, a country whose soil still bears witness to the history of genocide — the soil of that country will receive the body of the Captain of the...
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Ghulam Azam vs. Bangladesh: Quotes from Daily Sangram ’71
Ghulam Azam Against Bangladesh: Quotes from Daily Sangram ’71 “In order to resist the criminals I am appealing to supply arms to the people who believe in the ideal and unity of the country [of...
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Ghulam Azam, an unerasable scar
Ghulam Azam, an unerasable scar by Zahur Ahmed for AlalODulal.org Nations have always been polarised. As bad as they have been, though, those polarisations were seldom about a protagonist who tried his...
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Spitting, Smiling (Ghulam Azam’s) Corpse
Defiled by the spit from Ghulam Azam’s Corpse By Emon Sarwar Freedom fighters, in this country, have killed the father-of-the-nation, the proclaimer-of-independence and military officers but not a...
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