Nationalism – by AZ: (Just now a friend asked for my views on Nationalism and here is my impromptu response. Your views?) MY VIEW: I don’t think Nationalism’s positive side outweighs its negative side. I think it is the other way round.
Memoir – by Javed Qazi: Javed Qazi describes his emotionally charged visit to the Bangladeshi capital, where his father, the Sindhi nationalist Qazi Faiz Mohammed, a close friend of Sheikh Mujib’s and a conscientious objector to the Pakistan Army’s assault on Bengalis in 1971, was
Sun from the East- by Ali Irtiza: The Bangladeshi government has ordered mosques and libraries across the country to remove all books written by a controversial Islamic scholar. The chief of the government-funded Islamic Foundation told the BBC that the books by Syed Abul Ala Maududi