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Shah Husain Imam

PLEASURE IS ALL MINE

An album on the poet of politics

My first impression of Bangabandhu dates back to around the mid-sixties. A helicopter service had been in operation between Dhaka
16 March 2019, 18:00 PM

An avoidable mayhem

Last Tuesday, from the northerly Himalayas, a blustery wind cascaded down to Haripur area of Thakurgaon leaving a patch of ruins in
14 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Uprooting corruption: We can do better

The seasonal discussion on corruption is back in full swing following the release of Berlin-based Transparency International's global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), 2018.
31 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Which way is pluralistic democracy headed?

We have known democratic pluralism, pluralistic democracy and multi-party system to be synonymous terminologies. But is it as simplistic as that? Conceptually and ideally, it is; but in practice and real-world situations, it may not be so!
17 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Change of style or substance?

With at least 27 new faces and only a few septuagenarians around, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was greeted on her re-election to a record fourth term at Gono Bhaban on Tuesday.
10 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Sheikh Hasina's fourth term

It is the huge gaps in the numbers of votes polled by the winners and the losers in the 11th national election that apparently unveiled a “controlled and patterned” nature of the process of polls.
3 January 2019, 18:00 PM

Wintry mist from a non-level playing field!

If almost every past election in Bangladesh had been a test case for democracy, the one the nation is going to in two days' time is a veritable litmus test for the country's democratic future.
27 December 2018, 18:00 PM

Nomination cauldron bubbling away, electioneering heat awaited

It was for the BNP leaders “a strategy” of filing multiple sets of nomination papers to cover the contingency of rejections. This came in the way of 141 party nominees out of 696 who had applied to the EC for a go-ahead.
6 December 2018, 18:00 PM

Bangladesh stamps its rise on world cricket

England is a known power in the cricketing world. Bangladesh, for the most part of its 16 years since attaining Test status, has struggled to keep its nose above water, sometimes to the condescending stare of cricket gurus.
3 November 2016, 18:00 PM

Is there a method in his madness?

Donald Trump may not win the US presidency but he has assured his place in history as an absurd choice for the GOP which literally means the God's Own Party.
27 October 2016, 18:00 PM

The final debate: Highly contentious but decisive

It may have proved to be the make-or-mar debate in the US presidential election held at the university of Nevada ,Las Vegas on
20 October 2016, 18:00 PM

Pickings on road to cricketing powerhouse

After six consecut ive series wins against world class cricketing sides and 11months of hibernation, the stage was set for three ODIs against an improving Afghan side, an associate member of the ICC. The latter played reasonably well against us but we did outclass them in the last match of the series.
14 October 2016, 18:00 PM

Running mates set higher stakes for presidential debates

The appearance of swallows at the beginning of summer has helped craft a wonderful English idiom: “One swallow doesn't make a summer.” All it warns against is forming 'a general opinion or judgment on the basis of a single event, remark, etc.'
6 October 2016, 18:00 PM

Uneven contest, not a classy debate

Let's begin at the beginning: Lester Holt, thought to be a Republican by political belief (so what!) was appointed Moderator for Monday's
29 September 2016, 18:00 PM

Hillary-Trump slanging matches from the ringside

Next Monday, we will see the first of the three debates that are billed to bring out the best in the two candidates' competency, knowledge, leadership qualities and abilities to defend their policy positions, plans and visions for their incumbency.
22 September 2016, 18:00 PM

Our girls' feat in football and localised pinpricks

The all-win success story of our U-16 girls' football team at the group championship stage has been a head turner. But with their entry into the top eight league which pits them against teams like Japan and South Korea, their struggle has only begun. They have a long way to go.
15 September 2016, 18:00 PM

A foul-mouthed president showers acid rain

We have heard of a political banter of Churchillian fierceness. Of Stanley Baldwin, a former British prime minister, Winston
8 September 2016, 18:00 PM

Kerry's diplomacy carries the day

There have been high- profile and well-orchestrated series of visits made to the region and beyond by top US dignitaries of late. Even as US Secretary of State John Kerry was in the midst of a whirlwind tour of Bangladesh, President Obama embarked on his valedictory odyssey across the Asia-Pacific region. Optimistically, if a little nostalgically, this may seem to rhyme with his geo-political pivot to Asia.
1 September 2016, 18:00 PM

Behind the camouflage

Lately, Pakistan-Bangladesh relations have been in the news, mostly for negative reasons, and very sparsely for the positive ones.
25 August 2016, 18:00 PM

An elephant eloquent, instructive in his death

One can thus feel in one's bones the pain and trauma the wild elephant, separated from its herd by severe flooding in Assam, must have gone through all the way down to Bangladesh.
18 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Our Population, Our Asset

We are a land-short country, somewhat proverbially, as it seems. Bangladesh does not exactly have a galloping population but a
11 August 2016, 18:00 PM

Time to switch on a positive mode

Whatever institutionalisation has taken place among the well-run private universities benefitting the cause of higher education should not even be unwittingly put in peril.
4 August 2016, 18:00 PM

The race for the White House is heating up

Brawn, brain and tears sum up the tone, temper and texture of the Republican and Democrat national conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia respectively.
28 July 2016, 18:00 PM

Aftershocks of a failed coup

The truth of the matter is that military intervention in politics or attempted usurpation of power is an imposition on the people and is never supported by them.
21 July 2016, 18:00 PM

Focus on the supply side of terrorism

It is true that many a terrorist attack may have been prevented due to good police and Rab work. What is equally true is an ample room for improvement
14 July 2016, 18:00 PM

Thin line between populism and democracy

Britain is slowly getting its breath back after the last week's seismic earthquake of the Brexit verdict in a referendum.
30 June 2016, 18:00 PM

A fresh look at Delhi-Dhaka ties

Avijit Mukherjee, son of Indian President Pranab Mukherjee and Lok Sabha MP, recently on a private visit to Dhaka, has left a good impression by his clarity of thought on a rather tangled issue.
23 June 2016, 18:00 PM

A lone wolf left unguarded

Six days after the single-handed carnage at an Orlando gay nightclub, a coherent but incredibly bizarre narrative is emerging out of the nocturnal shadows.
16 June 2016, 18:00 PM

Pagination

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