“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”–Martin Luther King Jr. Bangladesh celebrates the Golden Jubilee of Victory on December 16, 2021. Half a century ago on this day, the defeated Pakistan military surrendered, not to the Mukti Bahini, the liberation forces of Bangladesh, but to an alien […]
“Fight against those who fight against you in the way of God, but do not transgress, for God does not love transgressors” –The Quran (2:190) The Pakistan military swooped on the unarmed people of East Pakistan on March 25, 1971. Their crime? They sought freedom from the Pakistani civil and military oligarchy and dared to ask […]
Since the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman there has been a question which has haunted me for a long time: who was the mastermind of his tragic death? I have been analyzing this for years. After reflecting on the then politico-socio-economic scenarios, the Indo-Bangladesh relationship and above all, India’s longstanding agenda centering on the Muslim homeland […]
I am a Bangladeshi Muslim by birth, now a US citizen. I am a freedom fighter of the Bangladesh War of Liberation. I am going to be 70 next August. My motherland, Bangladesh originated from a Muslim country. Now a question frequently chases me: what I am? What are my beloved countrymen? Our forefathers, to get freedom […]
The world breathed a sigh of relief as the presidency of Trump ended. Trump is a fascist, who holds racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, misogynistic, and climate change-denying views. A disrespectful person, Trump told 30,000 lies and shattered every accepted norm of decorum. He represents the far-right fascists and the white supremacists, and he incited his followers to attack […]