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The Baghdad Air Strike: Pre-emptive self-defence or Assassination?0
- Commentary, Featured
- January 9, 2020
By Devansh Kaushik | January 9, 2020 Introduction In the early hours of January 3, missiles launched by a USAF MQ9 Reaper slammed into a convoy exiting the Baghdad International Airport, killing Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, deputy commander of an Iraqi militia. General Soleimani was the leader of the elite
READ MOREIndian Muslims: Are they ‘invaders’, ‘scumbags’ or equal citizens?1
- Commentary, Featured
- December 28, 2019
By Adil Khan Broadly speaking most Indian Hindus seem to entertain three perceptions vis-à-vis the Indian Muslims – that Muslims are: (i) ‘invaders’ and thus have no place in Hindu India; (ii) ‘scumbags’, liars, cheats and terrorists and thus be shunned; and finally, to some (iii) they are equal citizens and thus be treated accordingly.
READ MOREAn obituary : Farewell Sir Fazle Hasan Abed: the friend of the poor, the legend1
- Commentary, Featured
- December 24, 2019
by Noore Alam 25 December 2019 Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder and the Chair Emeritus of the world’s largest NGO, the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) passed away on 20 December 2019 at the age of 83 in his home country of Bangladesh. Sir Abed was born in 27 April, 1936 into the prestigious
READ MOREBlood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India0
By Dexter Filkins A Reporter at Large December 9, 2019 Issue The New Yorker The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents himself as an ascetic economic visionary. He is also a hero of anti-Muslim bigots. On August 11th, two weeks after Prime
READ MOREArundhati Roy: It’s Hard to Communicate the Scale and the Shape of This Shadow Taking India Over0
November 28, 2019 www.democracynow.org Guests Arundhati Royaward-winning writer. She won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things. Her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. Human rights groups are condemning the Indian government for carrying out widespread torture, extrajudicial
READ MOREKhin Zaw Win: Rohingyas must be sent home with full citizenship0
Ahmed Deepto . Dhaka | Prothom Alo Nov 25, 2019 Khin Zaw Win is the director of Tampadipa Institute in Yangon, Myanmar and human rights activists. He works on policy advocacy on communal issues, land and nationalism. He served in government health services of Myanmar and Sabah, Malaysia. He was imprisoned from July 1994 to
READ MOREIndia: Intimations of an Ending. The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.1
- Commentary, Featured
- November 23, 2019
By Arundhati Roy 22 November 2019 While protest reverberates on the streets of Chile, Catalonia, Britain, France, Iraq, Lebanon, and Hong Kong, and a new generation rages against what has been done to their planet, I hope you will forgive me for speaking about a place where the street has been taken over by something
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Bangladesh And Its Continued Defamation Of Grameen Bank0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 31 – Winter 2020
- November 20, 2019
“Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbor to have them through envy.” ~Aristotle by Sabria Chowdhury Balland 20 November 2019 He is perhaps the most celebrated
READ MOREIndian-American Hindutva believers are ecstatic about India’s court decision on Babri Masjid0
By Bhargavi Kulkarni and Suman Guha Mozumder Nov 12, 2019 The Nov. 9 verdict of the Supreme Court that granted Hindus permission to build a Ram temple at the centuries-old Ayodhya holy site, ending one of the country’s most politically-charged land disputes, has evoked a mixed reaction from Indian-Americans. The Hindu-American community and those supporting
READ MOREIndia’s Narendra Modi has had a free pass from the west for too long0
Threats to minority rights and democratic norms are ignored to preserve a comforting illusion Gideon Rachman November 11 2019 The Financial Times The world’s democracies are desperate to believe in India. From Washington to Tokyo, and from Canberra to London, the country is viewed as an indispensable counterbalance to China. The two Asian giants are
READ MOREGowher Rizvi’s 1976 Article, “The Killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – Perspectives on Recent Bangladesh History”: A Review*1
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 31 – Winter 2020
- November 4, 2019
By Taj Hashmi 3 November 2019 Gowher Rizvi, the author of the article, “The Killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman – Perspectives on Recent Bangladesh History” This is a review of an academic article by Ali Gowher (aka Gowher Rizvi), who is the current International Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh. The article
READ MOREManipur Government in Exile: Impact on Bangladesh4
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 31 – Winter 2020
- November 3, 2019
By R Chowdhury 3 November 2019 A dissident group of the Indian Manipur State has announced formation of a Government-in-Exile in London on October 29, 2019. Yamben Biren, who designated himself the Chief Minister and Minister of External Affairs of Manipur made the declaration. Mr. Narengbam Samarjit, the Defence Minister designate, was present. They claimed
READ MORERSS IDEOLOGUE NANA DESHMUKH WHO JUSTIFIED 1984 SIKH MASSACRE IS A ‘BHARAT RATNA’ NOW0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 31 – Winter 2020
- November 1, 2019
inssan abhee tak zinda hae, zinda hone per sharminda hae! Human beings are still alive, they are ashamed to be alive! [Shahid Nadeem’s Urdu couplet on silence of civil society against communal violence. He received forty lashes for writing and singing these lines by Zia regime in Pakistan] by Shamsul Islam 1 November 2019 In
READ MOREBangladesh: National Revolution and Solidarity Day, its Significance and its Precursor (With inside stories)0
- Commentary, Featured
- October 31, 2019
By R Chowdhury 1 November 2019 November 7, 1975. A unique day in the life of Bangladesh. At the early hours on this day, soldiers in the Dhaka Cantonment came out in force against the conspiratorial putsch staged by Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf’ four days earlier. Firing with whatever personal weapons they possessed in all directions,
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