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Re: [ALOCHONA] Re: The Fatal Attraction.



Ezajur, as expected of you.
 
If they are living in North America (as we are in ME) not because of our Mullahs or our Religion but bad surely our politics. Human sufferings all around and specially in BD is caused by criminal politics and their adoptors- criminal politicians. But these guys are no where there to reflect on those issues that could help change lives. They are exactly following the 9/11 philosophy. We can only hope these men/woman with letters can read the alphabets correctly.
Thanks for your posting.

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From: ezajur <ezajur.rahman@q8.com>
Subject: [ALOCHONA] Re: The Fatal Attraction.
To: alochona@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, 11 August, 2009, 8:03 AM

 
Dear Alochok Akbar
It is the failure of centre politics that pushes many - though of course not all - to religious extremes. One cannot stand in the middle of a sea of corruption, hypocrisy, incompetence and selfishness and call to young people to come and join you in the centre. Many young people are smarter than we think. They listen to your promise of change and realise its been the same unfilfilled promise as the last 40 years. They may have only another 40 years to live - so why believe a call to join the rotten centre? Who should they trust, what should they trust and why should they trust?
They become radicalised. In Bangladesh we have not yet even begun to scratch the surface of radicalisation. Many still keep their head in the sand and think the mullas are irrelevant. We ignore them at our peril.
But lets face it.
It's easy to say that radicals aren't the real face of Islam. Then what is the real face of Islam? Who will draw and define the real face of Islam? If we continue with the easy option of 'Islam stays in your bedroom' then the radicals will define Islam in your living room and in the street.
Moderate Muslims need to claim the centre ground of Islam in an aggressive and strategic way. And in Muslim countries Islam needs to be seen to be taken seriously by the government too - not just be limited to a state janaza for a dead politician who was a lifelong atheist.
We need leadership in religion too.
If we put ethics and principle into centre politics and unambiguously claim Islam as A faith of the centre we can stop radicalisation.
Ezajur Rahman
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[mukto-mona] Please publish article on 15 August

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[ALOCHONA] No Voting Rights for Expatriots?



Why should they be given Voting Rights, when they can not come on the streets to topple our government?
Our System exported those Slaves of our System instead of making the country advanced enough to export Goods. Why should even the Slaves that we sold to other countries have Voting Rights?
Its job of Exported Slaves to keep paying their price in Installments, why should Bangladesh be thankful to them for sending Foreign Exchange?
They send Foreign Exchange to pay for their Freedom since they were sold for Foreign Exchange. We can print as much money we want, what we need more is, Foreign Exchange so, we can buy more Foreign Cars and other Imported Goodies. Please try to understand ...!
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> Asking to the Government & EC of Bangladesh
> Why are not enlisted the names in the voter list of a lot Bangladeshi people who are legal Bangladesh passport holders & citizens of Bangladesh are working in abroad &  sending foreign currency to Bangladesh??
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> পঞ্চবার্ষিকী পরিকল্পনায় প্রবাসীদের বিষয় অন্তর্ভূক্ত করুন-à¦"য়াহিদউদ্দিন মাহমুদ
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> ১০ আগস্ট, সোমবার (আরটিএনএন)- প্রবাসীদের পাঠানো অর্থের অপব্যবহার বন্ধ করে তা উৎপাদনশীলখাতে বিনিয়োগে আকৃষ্ট করতে ব্যাংকগুলোর বিশেষ ভূমিকা রাখা উচিত বলে মনে করেন অর্থনীতিবীদ à¦" ব্যাংকাররা।
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> http://www.rtnn. net/index. php?option= com_content&view=article&id=5386:2009- 08-10-08- 22-06&catid=41:2008- 09-29-04- 26-11


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[ALOCHONA] The August 15, 1975: What It Meant to Bangladesh



The August 15, 1975: What It Meant to Bangladesh

August 15 is nearing. We will see and experience the frantic and elaborate celebrations of the re-designated Mourning Day this year. There will no doubt be showcases of milads, kulkhanis, feeding the poor on one side while seminars, demonstrations and 'cry' for the death for those who dared the 'August 15 Revolution' on the other. I will come to the word 'revolution' later.

Walk the 1972-75 of Bangladesh

Let us put the present to pause for a while and rewind the history of Bangladesh to the period 1971-1975. This exercise is especially important for the generations in their 40s and below, who have not seen the birth pangs of the new nation in 1971, nor did they experience the 'golden rule' of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1972-1975. These generations, as well as the entire nation, are continually being fed with disinformation and distorted versions of our history. They are fed up with the repeated changes in the history books at every turn of the government.
To make the matter worse, the highest judicial class of the country decided to put its seal on a highly controversial and partisan issue concerning the declaration of independence of Bangladesh. Obviously, question does arise about the much touted independence of our judiciary.
Mujib in 1971
In 1971, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became the undisputed leader of then East Pakistan. In the 1970 elections, his Awami League won 162 out of 300 seats in the National Assembly, thereby giving him the right to form the next government of Pakistan. But that became an illusion. In the face of Pakistani junta's overt and covert conspiracy to deny the legitimate rights to the Bengalis, there was an all out pressure on Sheikh Mujib since March 1, 1971 to make the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). March 7 offered him that chance. Instead of an UDI, Mujib came out with a call "Ebarer sangram swadhinatar sangram, ebarer sangram muktir sangram……" He refused to take questions from press and left the stage as quickly as he came, leaving the audience disappointed, perplexed and totally confused.
Awami pundits argued that Sheikh Mujib refrained from making the UDI after watching the Pakistani fighter planes hovering above. It made little sense. According to eye witness accounts, Mujib came prepared what he wanted to say at the race course gathering. He even said to have ended his speech with 'Pakistan Zindabad' along with 'Joy Bangla'. Later, however, the former slogan was removed from the tape. Would the Pakistanis dare to make a British style Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Dhaka at that stage? I don't think so.
(On April 13, 1919 the British Indian Army, under the command of Brigadier Reginald Dyer opened fire and emptied all its ammunition on an unarmed gathering of men, women and children at Jallianwalla Bagh in Amritsar. Official account put the casualties at 1526 in the 10-minute havoc, leaving a deep impact on the course of independence struggle in India.)
Other pundits tried to explain that his March 7 speech itself was the UDI, and he did not have to make a separate one on the night of March 25/26, 1971, in an effort to undermine the declaration of independence Major Ziaur Rahman made at Kalurghat radio station, Chittagong on March 27, 1971. Was it not then strange that Sheikh Mujib went to negotiate with the Pakistani leaders from March 15 to 24, 1971 to chalk out the future of Pakistan? He even retorted to the inquisitive reporters as late as on the morning of March 25 that he was not a fool to continue the dialogue if there was no progress. (Please see Ittefaq, Pakistan Observer and other dailies of March 26, 27, 1971). Little did he know that President Yahya and his cohorts had already left Dhaka, leaving instructions to start Operation Searchlight aimed at annihilating the Bengalis. The same night, he was flown to Karachi, his family remaining in safe custody of the Pakistan military. Apparently, Sheikh Hasina was a happy young girl then; she conceived Joy around that time.
Mujib Warned of Pakistani Crackdown Plan
According to a source, Captain Amin Ahmed Chowdhury (now retired Major General) brought a message from Lt Col M R Chowdhury, Major Ziaur Rahman, Captain Rafiqul Islam and others in Chittagong to convey to the top political leadership that Pakistanis were planning a crackdown on the Bengalis soon and they sought advice. Upon receipt of the message through Col M A G Osmani on March 17, 1971, the Sheikh ignored the warning and continued his dealings with the Pakistanis.
As such, following questions do arise in the minds of common people:
• Sheikh Mujib had the opportunity to make UDI on March 7, 1971, but he did not.
• Sheikh Mujib went on to negotiate on March 15 with the Pakistani junta to save Pakistan, having earlier said 'ebarer sangram swadhinatar sangram……….'
• Sheikh Mujib was warned of the Pakistan military build up in East Pakistan and their evil designs by the Bengalis elements in the military, as well as then top student leaders, yet he preferred to continue dialogue to maintain Pakistan's unity.
• Ominous landings of planes and ships loaded with troops and armaments in East Pakistan were no secret. How come a seasoned politician like Sheikh Mujibur Rahman failed to visualize the game plan the Pakistani generals were preparing, unless he was a party to it himself?
• When the crackdown started, he was advised by others to leave his residence and go hiding. He preferred to stay and subsequently surrendered to the military on the night of March 25, 1971. His family was allowed to stay at his residence in safe military custody.
• A close associate of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman once said, "Sheikh Saheb loved to be arrested. It made him martyr and popular, at the same time staying away from the flashpoints of trouble." (Also see "Witness to Surrender" by Siddiq Salek testifying Sheikh Mujib's several requests to the military authorities in March 1971 to be taken to custody.)
• What was Sheikh Mujib woking on—an autonomous East Pakistan or an independent Bangladesh?
Yet, when Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returned to independent Bangladesh from Pakistani custody on January 10, 1972, he was the most loved person in the country. As one espousing flattery, he was slowly shelved into a cocoon of sycophants and drawn away from the people who once prayed for his welfare and fasted for his recovery from surgery. The common man felt betrayed, and the reasons are not far to seek. Let us revisit the following:
Rakkhi Bahini
This draconian force, created at the advice of India and under the personal control of Sheikh Mujib, was extensively used to eliminate any political opposition to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his administration. Anyone not towing the official line was either thrown in the prison or eliminated. According to various estimates about 40,000 political adversaries were killed during the Mujib rule. In an apparent admission to the crime, Sheikh Mujib bragged on the parliament floor, "Kothay akhon Siraj Sikdar (where is Siraj Sikdar now)?" He was referring to the popular leftist leader who was killed in police custody. Sufferers still shudder at the thought of the atrocities committed by the Rakkhi Bahini. That was the golden rule!
Man-made Famine
Almost half a million people perished in the man-made famine of 1974-75. There was no dearth of relief materials but those did not reach the needy. They were kept hoarded by then ruling circle and were dispensed on political expediency or sold in the black market. Struggles between humans and animals for eatables in the waste were common sight in the cities. At night, most part of Dhaka city was carpeted by emaciated destitute, with connected social vices. Dead bodies were deprived of the minimal burial rites. At the same time, people witnessed the royal style weddings and birthday ceremonies at the Gonobhaban, the official residence of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. (Please see NY Times of December 13 and 24, 1974). That was the administrative efficiency!
Emergency
Not being able to cope with the growing opposition to his rule, Sheikh Mujib clamped emergency in December 1974. Fundamental rights were suspended, political activities totally banned, all but 4 government controlled newspapers closed. That was the freedom!
4th Amendment/Presidential Rule
In January 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made himself the President, changing the constitution through 4th amendment in just 20 minutes without any debate. He thus amassed all state powers to himself, making him the unchallenged dictator. That was the democracy!
BAKSAL/One-Party Dictatorship
In early 1975, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formed Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League, virtually an extension of his ruling Awami League. All other political parties were banned and people were forced to join the BAKSAL. For the first time, members of the military and bureaucracy were politicized by allowing them to join the new party. 61 BAKSAL governors with party officials were to be installed in the districts on September 1, 1975 with a view to running the country in a Russian commissar style. That was the dream people fought and gave blood for!

People Sought Relief

It was a suffocating situation in the country and people wanted relief, and the soonest before it was too late. They looked towards the patriotic elements of the military, which could not ignore their call and a need for national survival. The military response came in the form of the August 15, 1975 REVOLUTION.
It was regrettable that a few persons on both sides including, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, died in the pre-dawn short military action on the day. I am, however, not aware of the circumstances under which those casualties took place. At the same time, one may comprehend that casualties in such an action of historic proportion could not be unexpected. According to a foreign judge, the death of 22 persons on August 15, 1975 outweighed the benefit the coup brought to the nation where political killings and extra judicial deaths were routine. The 22 deaths perhaps stopped deaths of thousands that would have been committed had there not been August 15, 1975.
Public Jubilation
The August 15 action was hailed by the entire nation, locally and outside. There were jubilant processions all over the country, even ignoring the curfew at the time, Shukrana prayers were offered and sweets were distributed in happiness. People said 'Al-hamdulillah', not 'Innalillah'. International community, including major powers and India, recognized the new government immediately.
These are no fictional stories. If one visits the newspaper archives and opens the pages of issues of the time, one will find the truth and much more.
On August 15 this year, when the senior Awami leaders and their followers will shed crocodile tears for the man-god they are trying to make of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, I would like to ask the following questions to them:
• Why did they fail to protests the 'killing' of Sheikh Mujibur Rahamn at that time?
• Why did the army, navy, airforce, BDR, police and Rakkhi Bahini fail to counterattack and crush the coup leaders, if the coup was perpetrated by a 'few disgruntled officers' as the court opined?
• Why did the chiefs of army, navy, air force, BDR, police and Rakkhi Bahini rush to the new president on the morning of August 15, 1971 to express their support to the coup and publicly announce their allegiance to his administration?
• Wasn't the new cabinet of President Khandakar Mushataque Ahmed formed entirely of the Awami League members of parliament?
• Why none of the coup leaders took any leadership position in the new administration or sought elevation in ranks even though they had the chance to do so?
Appeal to the Nation
Before you evaluate the coup of August 15, 1975, please walk back the memory lane to the early period of Bangladesh and visualize if it saved the nation from the heavy hands of a repressive regime or it betrayed the national aspiration. In fact, the August 15, 1975 action bailed the nation out of a virtual collapse and retrieved democracy from the evils a one-party dictatorship.
If Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is determined to avenge the death of her father, no logic will deter her. But she, or anybody for that matter, can not call the coup leaders 'killers'. They will remain 'Surja Santans' of the nation, even if they are taken to the gallows. History will recognize their contribution. And at that moment, Honorable Judges, will you be able to give back their heads? Will you then be prepared to take responsibility for the miscarriage of justice and be condemned in history?
If Hasina hangs the Surja Santans, she could not do it in isolation. The whole military and all the law enforcing agencies, and in fact the entire nation that supported the coup on August 15, 1975 should be taken to the gallows.
As we are mourning or celebrating the August 15 this year, we need to walk back to the period of 1972-1975 of Bangladesh and judge Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, his deeds and fallacies. And then see why August 15, 1975 was called for.
Author: A O Chowdhury NY, USA



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[ALOCHONA] Govts use LGRD portfolio for party purposes




Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee
 

Political governments have reserved the local government, rural development and cooperatives portfolio for the general secretary of the party in power, a tradition which experts believe is meant for tightening the ruling party's grip on the grassroots.
   The ruling clique uses the vital ministry as a tool to reward the party rank and file down to villages and fortify its support base through manipulating development schemes, they point out.
   The party in power feels it safe to entrust the general secretary, the second man in a party, with the LGRD ministry job with twin purposes — implementing the government's rural development agenda and benefiting the root-level party activists using executive power and public fund.
   The trend started even before the country's return to parliamentary democracy in 1991, as military dictator HM Ershad's Jatiya Party pressed two secretaries general Shah Moazzem and Najiur Rahman Manjur into the LGRD ministry. Both of them served a brief one-year term between 1986 and 1990, the year that marked the fall of Ershad through a mass upsurge.
   None of the LGRD ministers surrendered their party post after getting the responsibility of the vital ministry and throughout their tenures they continued the dual role. While they used the whole machinery to boost the party's grassroots support, the ruling parties ultimately suffered organizationally as fortunate few got the benefit and others felt deprived, leading to internal dissatisfactions, analysts and party insiders said.
   Organisational weakness of the ruling parties is evident in their failure to counter the opposition politically towards the end of tenure and subsequent election defeat just after one term, they pointed out.
   'As the activities of the LGRD ministry are spread down to union and village levels, the ruling party always appointed its general secretary to this ministry to patronise party men. The ruling party always uses this ministry for strengthening their root-level activities,' said Professor Muzaffer Ahmad, former chairman of Transparency International-Bangladesh trustee board.
   The most vital organ of the ministry is Local Government Engineering Department, which implements different infrastructure projects in the rural and urban areas round the year. Its activities include construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and development of roads, bridges, culverts, small water resources, growth centres, rural markets, Union Parishad buildings, cyclone/flood shelters, bus terminals and municipal markets.
   The ministry runs its activities through Rural Development & Cooperative Division, Bangladesh Academy for Rural Development, Department of Cooperatives, Bangladesh Rural Development Board, Local Government Division, LGED as well as six city corporations.
   Muzaffer, also president of the Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon (BAPA), said appointing general secretary as LGRD minister has become a tradition since the independence of the country.
   'This tradition should be stopped for the sake of strengthening the local government system. Every political party promised to strengthen the local government but after assuming power they forgot their pledge,' he said.
   If the local government is strengthened and given autonomy, then the LGRD ministry will lose its relevance as an absolute power base and the ruling party will then lose interest in using the ministry for party purpose through putting the general secretary at its helm, the senior economics professor felt.
   Former adviser to interim government and chairman of the Regulatory Reforms Commission Dr Akbar Ali Khan said every political government appointed the general secretary of the ruling party as the LGRD minister aiming to coordinate party's grassroots leaders and activists.
   'It is helpful for the party in power if its general secretary is made LGRD minister as he can communicate with its local level leaders and fulfill the desires of the party's grassroots leaders,' he said.
   During the BNP's first regime (1991-1996), the party's then secretary general Abdus Salam Talukder was made LGRD and cooperative minister, setting the trend for the next three political regimes.
   Awami League had been in state power between 1996 and 2001, and the then general secretary Zillur Rahman was the LGRD minister for the whole tenure.
   BNP returned to power in 2001 and the LGRD portfolio went to Abdul Mannan Bhuiyan, then secretary general of the party that stayed in power until October 2006.
   The following two years were tough time for political parties, including the two power-contenders Awami League and BNP, which saw their top leaders and many frontrunners in jail and went through organizational upheavals.
   Awami League won a landslide victory in the December 2008 election, but its elected general secretary Abdul Jalil was sidelined and fortune finally smiled on Syed Ashraful Islam, who was the de facto general secretary of the ruling party that formed government on January 6.
   More than six months after becoming the LGRD minister, Ashraf was made party's general secretary through a council session on July 24, meaning that the LGRD portfolio remained booked for the ruling party's general secretary as before.
   Ruling Awami League's presidium member Abdul Latif Siddiqi said the party's general secretary always gets the responsibility of the LGRD ministry as he has more active connections with the party's roots level leaders and activities than anyone in the central committee.
   'The ruling party's general secretary can play a vital role in implementing the party's election pledges through massive development activities in the grassroots. That is why general secretary remains the best choice for the LGRD ministry,' said Latif, jute and textiles minister of Sheikh Hasina's cabinet.
   The size of budgetary allocations made by each government for the LGRD ministry reflects the importance of the ministry, which is among the 10 ministries that spend more than 70 per cent of the annual development outlay. The Local Government Division was allocated TK 7,934 crore in the current fiscal year's budget, which is the third highest after food and disaster and defence ministry allocations.
   The BNP government for 2005-06 fiscal year allocated Tk 6,383 crore for rural development and infrastructures and the government in its last budget for the fiscal year 2006-07 allocated Tk 6795 crores for LGRD ministry.
   Retired bureaucrat Asafuddowlah observed it has been the tradition that ruling party's general secretary would become the LGRD minister as it helps the general secretary maintain contacts with the grassroots leaders.
   'Very often the ruling party general secretary expressed the desire to be the LGRD minister to win the support of grassroots leaders by using the ministry's strength,' he said.
   Asafuddowlah, however, said the LGRD minister gets the pulse of the party's grassroots while coordinating rural development works and may use some information as weapons for dominating the party as its general secretary.

 

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[ALOCHONA] Bari deserter, faces now court-martial




The military authorities have recently declared Brig Gen Chowdhury Fazlul Bari a deserter who defied repeated government orders to return from the US where he had been posted to the Bangladesh mission.

"As he was declared a deserter last month, he can now be arrested at any time if he returns home," says an army source.

After the declaration, he automatically lost his job in the army and has not been paid any salary or allowances.Besides, the source added, he would be court-martialled once he is in the country.

Earlier in May, the authorities declared Bari an officer absent without leave, more commonly known as abscondee.As he was absent without leave for 60 consecutive days, he was adjudged a deserter as per the Army Act.

Bari, who had served as the second man at DGFI since the last BNP-Jamaat rule, was appointed military attaché of the Bangladesh embassy in Washington DC towards the end of the caretaker government tenure.

The new government of Awami League-led grand alliance in February asked him to hand over charge and return to Dhaka.As he did not respond, he was called back again in April. This time, he handed over charge but did not return home.

Talking to The Daily Star over phone in June, he said he would not get back to the country anytime soon.When the newspaper tried to reach him on the same number yesterday evening, someone on the other end said it was "wrong number."

The same evening, Chowdhury Ashraful Bari Noman, Bari's brother and Habiganj BNP leader, told The Daily Star that his brother calls him and that's how they have been in contact.

Noman said, "Bari told me he was never involved in any subversive activities or corruption, and [that] he will come home in future."He lives in Washington with his family. His in-laws are US citizens."

Meanwhile, the army sources said if he was clean and had not done anything wrong, why he chose to be a deserter despite holding a top rank.They, however, declined to say if they had any specific allegations against him.

About a month back, when Bari was still an officer absent without leave, the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence suggested that the foreign ministry cancel his diplomatic passport.

Now that Bari's diplomatic passport has been revoked, the ministry needs to take diplomatic measures to bring him back to the country, said some other sources.
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মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগ

মুক্তমনা বাংলা ব্লগের ধারাবাহিক সাময়ীকি পাঠে স্বাগতম।

মুক্তমনা বাঙ্গালী এবং দক্ষিণ এশীয় ওয়েব সাইট গুলোর মধ্যে মুক্তবুদ্ধির চর্চাকারী অনলাইন লেখক সমাবেশ ।  ২০০১ সালে প্রতিষ্ঠার পর থেকেই মুক্তচিন্তা, মানবতাবাদ, যুক্তিবাদ প্রচার এবং বিজ্ঞানকে জনপ্রিয় করার পেছনে নিরলসভাবে কাজ করে যাচ্ছে। বাংলাদেশের তরুন প্রজন্মকে মুক্তিযুদ্ধের চেতনা বাস্তবায়নে অবদান সৃষ্টি এবং সেক্যুলার মানবিক চেতনায় উদ্বুদ্ধ করার পাশাপাশি তাদের মধ্যে বিজ্ঞানমনস্কতা ছড়িয়ে দেবার স্বীকৃতি স্বরূপ ২০০৭ সালের জুন মাসে ঘাতক দালাল নির্মূল কমিটি মুক্তমনা ওয়েবসাইটকে জাহানারা ইমাম স্মৃতি পদক প্রদান করে। বিভিন্ন ব্লগ সাইটে এবং ফরামে প্রগতিশীল চিন্তাভাবনার লেখকদের 'মুক্তমনা লেখক' হিসেবে অভিহিত করা হয়। মুক্তমনা আজ একটি সফল আন্দোলনের নাম, আকাশ ছোঁয়া এক স্বপ্নের নাম - যে স্বপ্নের বাস্তবতা দিয়েছে একদল উদ্যমী স্বেচ্ছাসেবক । আপনার চিন্তাধারা, কিংবা মতামত মুক্তমনার উদ্দেশ্যের  সাথে সঙ্গতিপূর্ণ হলে আমাদের সাইটে লেখা পাঠানোর নিয়ম অনুযায়ী আমাদের জন্য লেখা পাঠাতে পারেন।  আপনার লেখা মনোনীত হলে আমাদের ফোরামে এবং ওয়েব-সাইটে প্রকাশিত হবে ।


মুক্তমনা ব্লগে প্রকাশিত সর্বশেষ প্রবন্ধ :


ধন্যবাদান্তে,

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[ALOCHONA] Re: China should break up India into 20-30 states: Chinese strategist

Wishful thinking! Only it (breaking up) is happening to MBI Munshi's
beloved Pakistan by the Pakistanis themselves.

--- In alochona@yahoogroups.com, "M.B.I. Munshi" <MBIMunshi@...> wrote:
>
> China should break up India into 20-30 states: Chinese strategist
>
>
> IANS – August 10, 2009
>
>
>
> New Delhi, Aug 10 (IANS) In an article likely to raise Indian hackles,
a
> Chinese strategist contends that Beijing should break up India into
> 20-30 independent states with the help of 'friendly countries' like
> Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.
>
> The publication of the article nearly coincided with the 13th round of
> India-China border talks that ended in New Delhi Saturday on a
positive
> note, with Beijing emphasizing the need to build strategic trust and
> elevate strategic partnership to a new level to include coordination
on
> global issues.
>
> Written in Chinese, the article, 'If China takes a little action, the
> so-called Great Indian Federation can be broken up,' is published in
the
> new edition of the website of the China International Institute for
> Strategic Studies (CIISS), an influential think tank that advises
> Beijing on global and strategic issues.
>
> According to D.S. Rajan, director of the Chennai Centre for China
> Studies, Chennai, Zhan Lue, the author of the article, argues that the
> 'so-called' Indian nation cannot be considered as one having existed
in
> history as it relies primarily on Hindu religion for unity.
>
> The article says that India could only be termed a 'Hindu religious
> state' that is based on caste exploitation and which is coming in the
> way of modernisation.
>
> The writer goes on to argue that with these caste cleavages in mind,
> China in its own interest and the progress of whole of Asia should
join
> forces with 'different nationalities' like Assamese, Tamils and
> Kashmiris and support them in establishing independent nation states
of
> their own.
>
> In particular, the article asks Beijing to support the United
Liberation
> Front of Asom (ULFA), a militant separatist group in the Indian
> northeast, to it achieve independence for Assam from India.
>
> Furthermore, the article suggests that China can give political
support
> to Bangladesh to encourage ethnic Bengalis in India get rid of 'Indian
> control' and unite with Bangladesh as one Bengali nation.
>
> If this is not possible, the creation of at least another free Bengali
> nation state as a friendly neighbour of Bangladesh would be desirable
> for the purpose of weakening India's expansion and threat aimed at
> forming a 'unified South Asia', the article argues.
>
> The article recommends India's break up into 20-30 nation-states like
in
> Europe and contends that if the consciousness of 'nationalities' in
> India could be aroused, social reforms in South Asia can be achieved,
> the caste system can be eradicated and the region can march towards
> prosperity.
>
> The Chinese strategist suggests that to split India, China can seek
> support of friendly countries including Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan.
>
> China should encourage Bangladesh to give a push to the independence
of
> West Bengal and recover the 90,000 sq km territory in Arunachal
Pradesh,
> which China calls Southern Tibet, says Rajan who has analysed the
> article for the Chennai-based think tank.
>
> 'The write-up could not have been published without the permission of
> the Chinese authorities, but it is sure that Beijing will wash its
hands
> out of this if the matter is taken up by New Delhi,' says Rajan.
>
> 'It has generally been seen that China is speaking in two voices - its
> diplomatic interlocutors have always shown understanding in their
> dealings with their Indian counterparts, but its media is pouring
venom
> on India,' says Rajan.
>
> Which one to believe is a question confronting the public opinion and
> even policy makers in India, Rajan says, adding that ignoring such an
> article will 'prove to be costly' for India.
>
>
http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090810/812/tnl-china-should-break-up-india\
\
> -into-20.html
>
<http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20090810/812/tnl-china-should-break-up-indi\
\
> a-into-20.html>
>

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[ALOCHONA] School Record Exposes the Fake Birthday of Khaleda



Another interesting fact is Khaleda never passed her matriculation exam (the following article shows the number of subjects she failed in) even though her supporters always spread the lie that she had even attended college.


Source: http://www.thedailysangbad.com/details.php?news=13&action=main&option=single&news_id=8587&pub_no=92

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[ALOCHONA] Economic Performance: Bangladesh vs. Indian States [1 Attachment]

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Dear All,

I have been able to update my previous compilation comparing the economic performance of Bangladesh against that of Indian States and other countries in the region (attached). With the help of figures provided by Mr. Golam Ahmed it is clear that Bangladesh is far ahead of neighboring Indian states in terms of GDP and per capita income (except for Meghalaya which has a tiny economy anyway). The figures show where Bangladesh stands in the region and its potential if allowed to prosper through better economic policies and equitable trade relations with India.

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[mukto-mona] 15 th August tragedy and Barister Taposh

Dear editor
 
Please find the attchment and  publish it in your own magazine!

http://mukto-mona.com/banga_blog/?p=2136
 
 
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