secularism

Women’s bodies, male privilege, and the enduring secularist/religious binary in Bangladesh

There are women who don't want to be in the middle of a duel between two groups who legitimise and co-produce each other.
14 October 2024, 15:28 PM

The minority report in India

In Another India, Pratinav Anil unambiguously faults Nehruvian secularism—the very mantle championed by historians such as Mushirul Hasan for whom “the congress best represented the Muslim interests from the fifties on.”
28 August 2023, 13:55 PM

"Even if one is guilty, none has the right to make an entire community suffer"

Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, lawmaker from Narail-2 constituency and also former skipper of Bangladesh national cricket team, today (July 16, 2022) called upon all to maintain peace and work to ensure communal harmony, following attacks on Hindu community in Lohagora of Narail yesterday over a Facebook post that reportedly “hurt religious sentiments”.
16 July 2022, 16:24 PM

How are we doing — as human beings?

It is one of the biggest paradoxes of present time — the contradiction of having the most remarkable advancements in technology with the most regressive developments in human civilisation.
9 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Govt cheating with secularism tag: Fakhrul

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir alleges that that the government is “cheating” people in the name of secularism.
9 June 2017, 14:44 PM

Pakistani activist murdered in Karachi

A prominent Pakistani journalist and human rights activist, Khurram Zaki, is shot dead in Karachi.
8 May 2016, 11:25 AM

Govt moves to form media monitoring centre

The government has taken initiative to form a “media monitoring centre” to monitor news items published in different media, the information minister tells the parliament.
4 May 2016, 13:09 PM

Amnesty urges action to stop attacks on secular activists

Amnesty International today urges the Bangladesh authorities to ensure protection of activists and writers who are under threat.
7 April 2016, 14:30 PM

Murder of Hindu priest

We vehemently condemn the attack on a Hindu temple and the murder of a priest, that too on a day which, for Bangladeshis, symbolises plurality, tolerance and secularism.
21 February 2016, 18:00 PM

The real face of Bangladesh - moderate, secular

The high-profile arrests and deportation of 27 Bangladeshi workers from Singapore for planning violent attacks overseas may have caused some Singaporeans to wonder about Bangladesh and its people. The truth is that the country is a secular, moderate nation with a Muslim-majority population.
25 January 2016, 12:24 PM

Keep Britain Out

After all, the two communities lived together for centuries before the British introduced the separate electorate; Hindus exercising their vote only in favour of Hindu candidates and Muslims for the candidates of their own religion.
11 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Perils of Political Islam

Bangladeshi society has been undergoing tension and contradiction between secularism and political Islam.
4 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Engage all political parties to stop such killings: BNP

BNP says the government should engage all political parties to stop recurring of killings like the murder of Faisal Arefin Dipon, owner of a publishing house.
1 November 2015, 15:57 PM

Dipan’s father believes in ‘ideology of killers’: Hanif

Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahabubul Alam Hanif comes down heavily on Prof Abul Qashem Fazlul Huq for not seeking trial of the killers of his son publisher Faisal Arefin Dipan.
1 November 2015, 15:23 PM

Open letter urges arrest of ‘blogger-killers’

Following a string of brutal “machete” murders of Bangladeshi bloggers, an open letter today calls upon the Bangladeshi government to stop “victim-blaming” the bloggers and focus on catching the extremists who are murdering them.
19 August 2015, 11:37 AM

Secularism, Bangabandhu, Bangladesh

It was none other than Professor Abdur Razzak who could read Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman correctly, and that is why he had considered him as “a symbol of Bangladesh”.
14 August 2015, 18:00 PM

UN experts condemn recent killings of bloggers in Bangladesh

Condemning recent killings of bloggers in Bangladesh, UN human rights experts warn that it is an alarming signal of deterioration of the space for freedom of expression.
13 May 2015, 17:26 PM

Saffronisation of secularism

NOT many in Pakistan, still fewer in India, recalled that this March 23 marked the 75th year of the Muslim League's resolution to demand partition of India.
27 March 2015, 18:00 PM

Widow of blogger Avijit Roy defiant after Bangladesh attack

Widow of a blogger who was hacked to death in Bangladesh says she will continue to speak out on the causes of secularism and science
11 March 2015, 09:29 AM