Bangladesh News News Bangladesh » History: Bangladesh history: How Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, chosen with overwhelming popular mandate, lost trust
An excerpt from the revised edition of ‘The Land of Monsoons and Martyrs: A New History of Bangladesh’, by Salil Tripathi.
News Bangladesh » History: Bangladesh’s Bid to Rewrite History
Sheikh Mujibur Rehman delivering his historic speech at the Ramna Race Course (now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka on March 7, 1971. Credit: Wikipedia Subscribe for ads-free reading Bangladesh ...
News Bangladesh » History: Envisioning Bangladesh History: A Palimpsest Or A Chiseled Stone? – OpEd
Bangladesh history has become a partisan battleground of narratives and counter-narratives, but this paper is too short to go into the details of those questions. The eye of the storm over historical ...
News Bangladesh » History: Bangladesh History: An Occupied Territory? – OpEd
An uptick of an old fault line—-the protracted Bangladeshi discourse over history has recently stepped up since a spokesperson of Dr. Mohammad Yunus’s interim regime announced that the national ...
News Bangladesh » History: Behind Bangladesh's Failed Coup Plot: A History of Violence
Brigadier General Muhammad Masud Razzaq (R) talks during a media briefing in Dhaka January 19, 2012. The Bangladesh army said on Thursday it foiled a coup attempt by retired and serving officers late ...
News Bangladesh » History: Bangladesh’s long and troubled history with elections
Bangladesh’s birth as a nation in 1971 was violent, coming out of a war partly ignited by the then-Pakistani military government’s refusal to honor the results of a democratic election. Fifty-two ...
News Bangladesh » History: Bangladesh pacer Hasan Mahmud scripts history with test hat-trick against Afghanistan
Hasan Mahmud became the first Bangladeshi fast bowler to take a Test hat-trick during a match against Afghanistan in Abu Dhabi.