Straight Talk
Abdul Mannan
3rd July, 2021 11:55:48 AM
On 1st. of July Dhaka University celebrated its 100th anniversary. As the country along with rest of world is going through a devastating pandemic, killing thousands of people, the Centenary Celebration was a bit lacklustre and token excepting few alumni publishing some commentaries in some national dailies and a handful coming to talk on TV and arranging few webinars. The Vice-chancellor and his colleagues also planted few saplings to mark this historic occasion. One hundred years of existence of a university in a country like Bangladesh is definitely an occasion to be proud of. For my generation it is more so because as a student we could also experience Golden Jubilee of the University in 1971 but as the country was inching towards the Liberation War there wasn’t much scope for any celebration, excepting DUCSU publishing a twelve page tabloid sized bulletin. There were few seminars at TSC.
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Country Director, The Asia Foundation
The pandemic has given us the rare opportunity to have some room for reflection. In our usual fast-paced life, we never really had much of an opportunity to pause and reflect our life and decisions. This is therefore a great opportunity for learning at an individual level. On the other hand, organisations can also use this time to analyse their existing issues and figure out how they can solve them going forward.
We must learn about the entire ecosystem and not just restrict ourselves to our own sector. If one feels like they lack skills in a certain field, they should always reach out to someone with the relevant knowledge or enrol in a course.
Let Our Public Intellectuals Speak for Us Abroad
Syed Badrul Ahsan
20th December, 2020 11:34:01
Bangladesh’s history needs to go out to the world. With the nation preparing to observe the fiftieth anniversary of independence next year, it is important that we reach out to the world beyond our frontiers - to inform nations abroad of the defining circumstances which led us into the struggle for freedom as also the impediments we came up with in post-liberation times.
There is a vital need to re-educate, to enlighten once again the world with the chronicle of our political history. And then there is the heritage, the cultural narrative which certainly underpins that history. We have, here at home, focused extensively on the conditions which led, close to half a century ago, to freedom. But, of course, with history being a field of ceaseless research, there is ample scope for probing the reasons for our struggle, the hindrances we confronted in our long struggle for self-expressio