Sheikh Hasina’s legitimacy does not rest on rhetoric alone; it rests on law, history, and the expressed will of the electorate. Until the people, through a free and fair vote, decide otherwise, any alternative claim to power remains provisional at best, illegitimate at worst.
In that fateful August, I was a senior student at Dhaka University, residing in Sergeant Zohurul Haque Hall. As a freedom fighter, I was filled with exhilaration, at the thought of welcoming Bangabandhu to our campus.
By Saleem Samad The traditional month-long book fair ended last February. The book fair commemorates
By Anwar A. Khan Whispers of a faltering land – Bangladesh and U.S. Director of
By Anwar A. Khan Bangladesh, once a beacon of hope and resilience, now stands cloaked
Sheikh Hasina said that she would give greater priority to the project being done by India because the neighbouring country has held up Teesta’s waters.
By Saleem Samad China is secretly building the world’s biggest dam over the mighty Brahmaputra
Ahmadiyya, a Muslim sect is members of a minority community and are spread all over Bangladesh since the beginning of the twentieth century. They regularly hold inter-faith dialogues in their mosques, which prompted the radicalised Muslims to reject their place of worship as a mosque.
In between parleys and visits outside her hotel, Hasina has been able to draw the attention of the Indian media, Indian top officials and the business community to her century-old traditional handloom ‘Jamdani’ saree she wore during her four-day visit.
Presently, Bangladesh has gradually slid from secularism, pluralism, elective democracy, gender equality, and reducing the disparity between the rich and poor, something that was imbued in the “Declaration of Independence”.