The meeting between Prime Minister Mujib and President Castro was arranged near the end of NAM summit. On the day of the summit, news reached Algiers at noon that food-riot and looting had started in Chile following disruptions in food supply due to countrywide Truck strike. The leftist leaders i
The conspirators were so sure that Mushtaque would agree to be on board that no effort was made to contact him until a few days before the coup attempt. Khondakar Mushtaque and Khondakar Rashid shared the same family name. Khondakars are descendants of peers, that is, holy men and they came from ne
It is rather hard to point to a time when Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman graduated from a politician into a statesman. And yet there all those moments in Bangladesh's history when we can definitively point to phases which threw light on him for the statesmanlike positions he took on a variety of
Forty-two years have elapsed. Still that scary, depressing and tear-soaked feeling overshadows my heart and soul while the dark night comes into my mind. At that missing moment, I wonder, how terribly his two daughters have been passing their days since then! All of their family members were brutal
"To build a Golden Bengal, we need Golden People. Bangladesh is plagued by exploitation, oppression, and looting. To solve these problems and to build a happy and prosperous Bangladesh, the people needs to work hard to increase production." - Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (December 15,1974). T
