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Bangladesh Columnists Forum (BCF) a platform of senior journalists, academics, researchers and economists specialising in commentaries on contemporary issues of national and global nature began its journey yesterday, says a press release.
Renowned journalist and biographer Syed Badrul Ahsan has been made its convener and prominent legal economist and columnist MS Siddiqui co-convener.
Reputed economic affairs analyst and columnist Md Mazadul Hoque is in the ad hoc committee of BCF as a member secretary, adds the release signed by Badrul Ahsan.
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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
Let Our Public Intellectuals Speak for Us Abroad
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Syed Badrul Ahsan
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-expression, the bett