When the Sun eclipsed
Professor Anwarul Karim, PhD Bangabandhu is dead. Long live Bangabandhu. Every year, August 15 appears as the darkest and blackest spot in the history of Bangladesh, nay the civilized world, following the treacherous and...
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Seventh March Address
Helal Uddin Ahmed : Seventh March Address is the historic address delivered by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Ramna Racecourse on 7 March 1971. In the general election held in 1970, the Awami League...
Pakistan-Bangladesh Bilateral Relations
Shah Faisal Kakar :Acting High Commissioner of PakistanPakistan and Bangladesh enjoy good brotherly relations which are rooted in common religion, history, cultural heritage and united by a joint struggle for independence. It was Dhaka...
MESSAGE: Pakistan-Bangladesh Bilateral Relations
I felicitate fellow Pakistanis on the auspicious occasion of our 72nd Independence Day. This day refreshes our enthusiasm and rejuvenates our resolve to work for the progress and prosperity of our motherland. It also...
MESSAGE: Pakistan-Bangladesh Bilateral Relations
I wish to extend heartiest felicitations to all the Pakistanis, living within the country and abroad, on the auspicious occasion of the Independence Day of Pakistan. August 14 reminds us of the epic democratic...
Message: Pakistan-Bangladesh Bilateral Relations
On the auspicious occasion of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan’s 71st Anniversary of Independence, I wish to express my profound felicitations to the Pakistani community residing in Bangladesh. On this day in 1947, Pakistan...
Letters of Rabindranath and Bangladesh
Professor Anwarul Karim, PhD :Rabindranath is a poet of the soil, a true Bengali who represents his country truly through his creativity. He was not born in present Bangladesh but his forefathers did. They...
Rabindranath Tagore on the agrarian question
Md. Anisur Rahman :Tagore discussed the question of land relations in one of the most incisive observations in his days on this subject, in his essay Rayoter Kotha (On the Tenant; Tagore 1926: 1020-1025),...
The Night of Power
Ameer Hamzah :Lailatul Qadr (The Night of Power) is the most significant night for mankind all over the world. This is the night in which some 1,410 years ago Archangel Jibreel carried the revelations...
Eid-ul-Fitr : Past and present
Professor Anwarul Karim, Ph.D :Muslims all over the world enjoy the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr with religious fervor and festivity. The meaning of Eid is ‘joy’. Fitr speaks of a final breaking from continuous fasting which...
Eid-ul-Fitr : Brotherood and peace
M. Mizanur Rahman :Our National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam sings the song of Islam on Eid-ul-Fitr- Oh! Great soul, pleasant Eid has come. after the end of Ramadan fasting! Now be resigned yourself by...
Attaining spiritual strength
Mufti Taqi Usmani :The ninth month of the Islamic calender ‘Ramadan’ is the most meritorious month of the whole year. Since there are many specific rules peculiar to this month, we would like to...