Daily Online Alochona: Aug 19, 2008

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Re: [mukto-mona] Crimes of Taslima Nasreen.

WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/49479

Life being short and Eternity being forever, the religious Muslims prefer
the later. The problem is that they believe that their Prophet can deliver
them eternal happiness. Obviously they haven't read between the lines of
their religious literatures. Imagine Taslima replacing bluntness with
sophistication. She would turn into Rushdie. Only the price on her head
would be raised and the wrath of the believers would multiply.

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[mukto-mona] Siraj & Bengal's wealth

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Mr Kamal Das's love for history is praiseworthy but his comments that the 'prosperity' of pre- British Bengal is nothing more than a fantasy are irresponsible, if not outrageous. Why should we lean on Adam Smith , a great economist but no historian at all. If the belief (historically substantiated by Jadunath Sarkar , leave alone English Records which estimated the wealth amassed by Shaista Khan at Rs 640 million, excluding gold and jewellery. He even paid ,rather bribed Rs 20 million in the early 1680s to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb for an extension of his governorship. Sarkar estimated it at Rs 9 crores. Imagine Rs 9 crores excluding jewelleries in today's value) is hearsay-based, was Dadabhai Naoroji's 'drain theory' was all false? What did the colonialists loot?The allegation of loot was first hinted by none other than Warren Hastings in his critique of the top bosses of English East India Company.
We all know George Bernard Shaw's terse comment "A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else."
The roads, railways, sewer lines, water works, subway stations, electrical grids in Britain were built on the looted gold, spices, opium, sugar cane, and oil from the colonies. "Entire civilizations were reduced to slavery which destroyed the peaceful village culture of Africa and Asia". Take the policy of indentured labour to run plantations in India, Ceylon and Africa. All this had been a part of plunder, leave alone the destruction of the village culture, the population was at the mercy of the Centralized colonialists. The aim was to create chaos and turmoil. The result was pestilence, disease, and death. Unfortunately, SEZs and land acquisition statute-revision even in West Bengal paves the way for recolonisation of Independent India. About Bangladesh, the less said, the better.

Mr Das or members of Mukto-Mona group of netizens should not misunderstand me if I quote what the late M Basavapunnaiah, CPI(M) polit bureau member said about Arun Shourie (now BJP MP) when the latter wrote a 4-part diatribe against the role of CPI during the Quit India Movement of 1942. Shourie claimed falsely that he was the first to study 800 pages from the archives of the movement and over-blamed the CPI without proper study of documents. MB said , Shourie "is stupidly ignorant". I reiterate, I don't mean Mr Das.

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Re: [mukto-mona] Devil's Advocate: Taslima Nasrin

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Remember always, Devil is Lucifer. In the good old Roman empire he was
worshiped as the harbinger of knowledge. Can Mohammad Gani(USA) find any
untruth in whatever Taslima said.

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A worth reading article of Prof Ajoy Roy is published in Shamokal today .
Here is the link :

http://www.shamokal.com/details.php?nid=97098

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[ALOCHONA] Pro-BNP White panel sweeps DU deans polls BAL got only 1.

Pro-BNP White panel sweeps DU deans polls

DU Correspondent

White Panel, a platform of the teachers of Dhaka University (DU) backed by the BNP and Jamaat clinched seven posts while Blue Panel supported by Awami League won the two remaining posts in the Dean Election held yesterday on the campus.

Around 1000 DU teachers cast their votes in the Dean election of nine faculties out of ten. Casting of the vote started at 9:00am and continued till 1:00pm at the game room of Teacher-Student Centre of the university.

A total of 21 candidates divided into two panels-White and Blue took part in the polls for nine posts out of ten as Prof Dr Borhan Uddin Khan of the White Panel was declared elected Dean of the Law Faculty, as no other nomination papers were filed for the post. Prof Borhanuddin also belong to the white panel.

Treasurer of DU Prof Syed Abul Kalam Azad was the Election Commissioner. The incumbent Arts Faculty Dean Prof Dr Sadrul Amin, a teacher of English, retained his deanship by getting 116 votes, while his nearest rival from the Blue Panel Fakhrul Alam got 107 votes.

Social Sciences incumbent Dean Harun-or- Rashid of the Blue Panel bagged the deanship by getting 100 votes, while his rival Prof Md Ferdous Hossain of Political Science and White Panel candidate got 53 votes.

Prof Dr Tajmeri SA Islam of Chemistry won the Science Faculty deanship from the White Panel by defeating the Blue Panel candidate Prof Muhibur Rahman of the same department.

Prof Abbas Ali of Management and White Panel candidate won the deanship for the Business Studies by defeating Blue Panel candidate Prof Mizanur Rahaman of Marketing.

White Panel candidate Abul Bashar of Zoology bagged the Bio-Science deanship defeating the incumbent Dean Anwar Hossain from the Blue Panel.

Prof Abdur Rashid, a teacher of Pharmaceutical Chemistry from White Panel won the Pharmacy deanship defeating Farida Begum of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacology and the Blue Panel candidate.

Artist Rafiqun Nabi of the Blue Panel candidate for the newly introduced Fine Arts Faculty won the deanship defeating two opponents - Abdus Sattar and Mahmudul Haq, both from the White Panel.

White Panel candidate Shahnaz Haq Hussain of Geography won the position of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Dean defeating the Blue Panel candidate Dr Md Hossain Mansur, a teacher of Soil Science.

White Panel candidate Shahida Rafique won the Engineering and Technology deanship defeating the Blue Panel candidate Neem Chandra Bhowmik, a professor of applied physics

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[mukto-mona] Please do not respond to the appeal of a hacker who hijacked my e-mail address

Hi, Last Sunday you might have received the following e-mail. This is a SCAM. A cyberspace hijacker hacked into this e-mail address of mine and took it over. I lost the access. After getting in to this e-mail address, the hijacker sent the following e-mail to the persons in my contact list in this e-mail address. Everybody received the same e-mail as furnished below: Please do not respond to this e-mail, if you did not do it before. I just recovered my e-mail address an hour ago. The first thing I am doing is informing you all (in my e-mail CONTACT List) that it was sent by a wrong person (a hacker/hijacker of this e-mail address) and not me. He used my name and my e-mail address. I just wonder how he broke my password! My earnest request to you all that the "Urgent Help Appeal" as depicted in the following e-mail, was SCAM and so please do not send any money to London, England, through Western Union. I have not gone to London. I am not traveling to Europe with any programs. I did not loose my wallet. I do not want any money from anybody. I am perfectly alright and solvent. Please do not help a hijacker/hacker by sending any money. Thanks and have a great day. Very Respectfully,Kajimel Raisuddin (The real owner of this e-mail address) Note: The hacker used my name below in the scam e-mail. He is using my name but I am not that person. ************** On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Kajimel Raisuddin <kraisuddin@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hello, I am sorry I didn't inform you about my traveling to Europe for a program called Empowering Youth to Fight Racism,HIV/AIDS,and Lack of Education,the program is taking place in three major countries in Europe which are Dublin,Scotland and England,I am persently in England,London. I misplaced my wallet on my way to the hotel where my money,and other valuable things were kept.I will like you to assist me with a soft loan urgently with the sum of $2,400 US Dollars to sort-out my hotel bills and get myself back home. I will appreciate whatever you can afford to send the money today.i'll pay you back as soon as i return,Let me know if you can assist. please use this information to send the money to me. Name : Kajimel RaisuddinAddress :171 Kensington High StZip code:NW8 7LBState :London Country :EnglandTest Question :To who?Answer :KajimelAmount send $:? As soon as you send the money , e-mail me back the western union money transfer code so i can pick the money and find my way homeRegardsKajimel

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[mukto-mona] Re: Article on Taslima Narin's return to India

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Even more garbage from the two bit recalcitrant who has to grant
his "approval" to others who consider him and his kind a bunch of
thugs. Whoever gave this character that authority? Yeah, he knows
some "educated women," the clearest suggestion that thye vast
connections that he wallows amongst are those of people too ignorant
to come out of the muck that he revels in.

This is the mentality of the fundamentalist thug - Mustafiz attacks
Taslima Nasrin's "character" because he has nothing to offer to
counter the arguments that she makes. This classic tactic of
religious thugs has been used to smear those whom they do not like
and who defy the intellectual garbage that the thugs live by and
wallow in. And the man is an ignoramus like fundamentalist thugs
invariably are. Taslima Nasrin received a degree in medicine by
studying for itlong before any doctorate was conferred upon her by anyone. What she has received, among accolades for her writing, include the Simone de Beauvoir award from the government of France. That is vastly more than any two bit joker who opposes her with veiled or open invective is ever likely to get.

Mehul Kamdar

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[mukto-mona] Crimes of Taslima Nasreen.

I don't like Taslima Naseen but I detest that person who hates Taslima Nasreen. Taslima's modus operandi was wrong, she is short sighted, her sense of morality is questionable, and she is not Isadora Duncan in art nor is she Jane Austin in literature. She just expressed her mind on something she wanted to be explicit. Three days before a letter writer in New Age, a daily English news paper from Dhaka, shed his tears for Islam while castigating Taslima Nasreen and expressed his scholarly satisfaction at the present difficulties facing by her. Some Muslims are so blunt headed about their faith that they live in a world full of hypocrisy and deception. When they claim Islam as a complete code of life they fail to appreciate the true meaning of life. If generosity is a virtue and Islam claims to be generous Taslima Nasreen should not have been a destitute today. Lies deserve abhorrence but when hypocrisy is worshipped as a religion that is dangerous. These so called Islamic mumins could not tolerate a few verbatim from a recalcitrant writer but everyday tolerating the butchery of their fellow Muslims by their own brothers from the same faith. Perhaps it's not a sin in Islam. I ask those Muslim hypocrites to go the killing fields of Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Indonesia and see for themselves what Islam has done to those orphans, widows, parents, brothers and sisters and friends.

These morons are ready to sacrifice their lives for a cartoon or a piece of writing but they are not moved by the genocide in the name of Islam. The apologists are prone to raise their voice against America but become blind when the Islamic marauders with the Koran in one hand and grenade on the other hand cold bloodedly murder the innocent. This is a criminal way of believing on a faith. To them Taslima Nasreen is a living danger to Islam but those killers are not. Religion hypocrisy is thy name.

Akbar Hussain

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[mukto-mona] A bit of dazzle to throw off predators (World Science e-newsletter)

* Washington's doctors absolved:
The statesman was beyond help when his much-
maligned doctors found him one fateful morning,
a study concludes.

http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/080819_washington

* Computer helps reassemble a lost past:
Rebuilding shattered artifacts can be like solving
jigsaw puzzles of bewildering proportions.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080815_comp-archaeology

* Scientists: century-old drug might cure
Parkinson's, more:
A study with mice suggests a century-old drug could
slow or even cure Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
disease, researchers say.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080818_blue

* Stone-Age graveyard reveals life in a
"green Sahara":
Scientists in Niger report having found the Sahara
Desert's largest known Stone-Age graveyard.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080814_sahara

* A bit of dazzle to throw off predators:
Bright patterns may really work to protect animals
from becoming a meal, researchers say.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080813_coloration

* Mass extinction going on, researchers say:
Great die-offs of amphibians are a sign that a
catastrophe is underway on Earth -- brought on by
us, some scientists argue.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080812_extinction

* Pride and shame displays "universal":
In both victory and defeat, athletes blind from
birth behave much like their sighted counterparts,
psychologists have found.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080811_pride

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[mukto-mona] Why do our old politicians want to be leaders of 36M poor people?

36m people in Bangladesh face acute poverty, hunger

Staff Reporter

Bangladesh's high economic growth during the last decade has resulted in significant reductions in poverty. However, 36 million people--about one quarter of the country's population--still face acute poverty and hunger.

Addressing this challenge is the focus of the workshop, "Understanding Chronic Poverty and Poverty Dynamics in Rural Bangladesh," that began in Dhaka yesterday. Government officials, researchers, and civil society representatives will discuss new findings on why some households and communities in rural Bangladesh remain trapped in poverty, while others have successfully moved out. These findings will help identify key factors that keep people poor.

The workshop is being organized by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC), Data Analysis and Technical Assistance Ltd. (DATA), and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

Drawing on information collected from 1,800 households across rural Bangladesh, the study found that while close to half the households surveyed moved out of poverty, around one-fifth remained chronically poor and a small percentage fell into poverty. These households were found to be extremely vulnerable to unexpected shocks, such as illness, dowry and wedding expenses, and floods.

The study focused on three key aspects of poverty in rural Bangladesh: poor people's perceptions of what makes them poor; the factors that create and perpetuate their poverty; and the patterns of loss and gain that they directly experience.

"Unlike previous studies, this research integrates two types of important data-household survey data and individual life histories-to provide a deeper understanding of the causes of chronic poverty in rural Bangladesh," said Bob Baulch, coordinator for the poverty dynamics and economic mobility theme at CPRC.

The study found that those households that have lower education levels, own less land, hold fewer non-land assets and livestock, and have many young children and elderly members, face the most difficulty escaping poverty. Unexpected shocks, such as injuries, illness and livestock deaths, significantly increase the likelihood of chronic poverty. Dowry payments and wedding expenses are a heavy burden for most households.

"This study makes it clear that rural households are particularly vulnerable to crises," said Md Zihadul Hassan, managing director of DATA. "The impact of a crisis, however, greatly depends on how much schooling the head of a household has received, whether property has been divided, and household ownership of livestock and other assets."

Additionally, the study documented eight types of life trajectories based on accounts by people of their direct experiences of moving in and out of poverty. Many of these life trajectories displayed a "saw-tooth" pattern in which improvements in people's lives are reversed by illnesses and large medical expenses, wedding expenses, and legal disputes.

"The life histories collected for this study reveal how improvements in poor people's lives tend to occur gradually, while declines occur suddenly," said Peter Davis, lecturer at the University of Bath and co-researcher of this study. "People's lives follow upward and downward patterns, not a smooth pattern of either progress or decline which is often suggested by more conventional research approaches."

The households in the study are based in 102 villages located in 14 of the country's 64 districts and were originally interviewed between eight and 14 years ago. The researchers revisited the same households in late 2006 and early 2007 to assess the changes in poverty and well-being that occurred over time.

"Unexpected shocks keep people in poverty and prevent them from moving out," said Agnes Quisumbing, senior research fellow at IFPRI. "This study provides a better understanding of these issues and can guide the design of more effective social protection systems for poor people in rural Bangladesh."

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[mukto-mona] =?utf-8?Q?Newsletter 19 August 2008?=

Dear Readers,

As usual, the latest Qantara.de newsletter tells you what's new on
our website.

Best wishes,

Arian Fariborz
Qantara.de

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Ahmadinejad's Messianic Fervor in Iran
Calculated Provocation

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad turns to foreign policy issues
– such as his anti-Israeli agitation – in order to divert
attention away from domestic failures and to maintain the worldwide
pressure on Iran. By Katajun Amirpur

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1018/i.html

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US Foreign Policy and Iran
Of War Games and Guessing Games

The question currently occupying the minds of journalists,
politicians and think tanks from Washington to Los Angeles is whether
or not the final five months of the Bush administration will see an
armed American strike against Iran. Ali Fathollah-Nejad looks for
some answers

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1019/i.html

Musharraf's Resignation
The Rise of Nawaz Sharif in the Post-Musharraf Era

The wake of Musharraf's resignation is a litmus test for Nawaz
Sharif, the prime minister overthrown by Musharraf in a 1999 coup.
Will he respond to the call of his conservative voters to play a role
in ending military operations in tribal areas? By Syed Saleem Shahzad

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1020/i.html

Opinion: Musharraf's Resignation
The Game is Over

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf stepped down in the face of
intense political pressure. His legacy is likely to be better than
expected, argues Thomas Bärthlein. But there is still much to be
achieved

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1021/i.html

Portrait of Tzipi Livni
Intelligent, Charming – Head of Government?

"When the time comes, I will be a candidate," said Israel's foreign
minister Tzipi Livni, and as early as last year she was demanding the
resignation of prime minister Ehud Olmert. Now, her time may be at
hand. Anna Kuhn-Osius reports

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-476/_nr-1017/i.html

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Study "Islam goes Internet"
Cyber Islam and Online Fatwas

Islamic associations are increasingly joining others in taking
advantage of the opportunities offered by the World Wide Web. In her
study "Islam goes Internet. Websites of Islamic Organizations on the
World Wide Web," Dr. Alev Inan traces the development of Islamic
websites. Götz Nordbruch spoke with her about the study

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-800/i.html

Islamic Dietary Laws in Practice
Halal for All

It's not easy to eat a purely halal diet. Muslim consumers in Germany
have to be well informed and sometimes accept compromises. There are
now halal seals of approval and a telephone hotline to help them. But
it is still almost impossible to avoid traces of pork in food
products. By Ute Hempelmann

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-798/i.html

"Manege" Youth Club
A Tiny Oasis in Berlin's Neukölln District

Often language alone is not enough to help people of different
backgrounds communicate, which is why the leaders of a youth club in
the Neukölln district of Berlin, where many immigrants live, use
colour, music and movement. The children and young people there can
create their own, new culture. Naima El Moussaoui investigates

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-478/_nr-799/i.html

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Obituary: the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish
Loss of the Last Undisputed National Symbol

Mahmoud Darwish, the most famous Palestinian poet and most
influential contemporary Arabic lyricist, has died at the age of 67.
Darwish repeatedly addressed the subject of Palestine's struggle for
independence, describing the Palestinians' fate in exile. Stefan
Weidner pays his respects

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-558/i.html

Union for Short Filmmakers of Muslim Countries
Overcoming the Apartheid Muslim Filmmakers Face

The "Union for Short Filmmakers of Muslim Countries" aims to focus on
problems that moviemakers face and to help them gain access to
international film festivals. Martin Gerner talked to Maheen Zia,
founding member of the union from Pakistan.

http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-559/i.html

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This is the newsletter of the online magazine "Qantara.de –
Dialogue with the Islamic World"; Qantara.de is sponsored by Deutsche
Welle, the Goethe Institute, the Federal Center for Political
Education and the Institute for Foreign Relations; the portal is
funded by the German Foreign Office.

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[ALOCHONA] You cannot eat coal

Extract from featured article by Rahnuma Ahmed: 'You cannot eat
coal': resistance in Phulbari

Zaeed and Farzana's film, ï¿½The Blood-Soaked Banner of Phulbari', was
released soon after the killings in 2006. I watch the beginning
sequence. A crowd of men stand at the long-distance bus stand in
Phulbari town, they talk to each other and to the film crew. ï¿½We are
poor people,' says a man, probably in his late-thirties. ï¿½If I lose
my home, how will I earn a living? What use will be the coalmine?'
Who will it benefit?

I return to clips from their uncut footage. A younger woman is
sitting in her courtyard, ï¿½No, I don't have a husband, I live with my
mother, I work with her. In the same place. If the coalmine comes,
we, that is, us mothers-and-daughters, where will we go? We will be
scattered from our relatives, we will lose our ties.'

ï¿½Where will we go?' This question is repeatedly raised by villagers,
by both men and women, old and young, by farmers, day-labourers,
petty businessmen, schoolchildren, college-going youths, both
Bengalis and adivasis, who belong to Santal, Oraon, Pahan, Mahali and
Munda communities. By Hindus and Muslims.

Full article at: http://shahidul.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/

Earlier article that deals with Phulbari:
http://shahidul.wordpress.com/2006/09/04/

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[mukto-mona] ACADEMIC JOB Opening Pre-1800 South Asia Position at UC Irvine

Please Forward to all who may be interested in applying!

-----Forwarded Message-----
From: Hannah Whang
Sent: Aug 19, 2008 1:43 PM
To: CISA-NEWS@weber2.sscnet.ucla.edu
Subject: Pre-1800 South Asia Position at UC Irvine

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Position announcement attached and below.

South Asia: Pre-1800.

The Department of History at the University of California, Irvine invites applications for a position in pre-1800 South Asian history. The department will appoint at the tenure track assistant or tenured beginning associate professor level, contingent upon qualifications. All research specializations in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern South Asian History are welcome to apply. Preference will be given to candidates who can participate in the department's World History program. Start date: July 1, 2009.

Please apply on line at http://recruit.ap.uci.edu and submit a coverletter and cv. In addition, please send an article length writing sample and three letters of recommendation (under separate cover) to:

Vinayak Chaturvedi

Chair, South Asia Search Committee

Department of History

University of California, Irvine

Irvine, CA 92697-3275.

To ensure consideration, materials must be received by November 7, 2008. Additional information about the UCI Department of History and the School of Humanities can be found at http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history

The University of California, Irvine, is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to excellence through diversity and has an Advance Program(http://advance.uci.edu/) for Faculty Equity and Diversity.

Closing Date: November 7, 2008.

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