“Free democracy. Only then will society heal itself,” said economist and educationist Akbar Ali Khan, as he read from Abul Mansur Ahmad’s political memoir “Amar Dekha Rajneetir Ponchash Bochhor”, at an event held at Dhaka University’s Faculty of Social Sciences yesterday.
Abul Mansur Ahmad upheld the sorrows and the inherent crises of the common people through his literary works to emancipate them from feudalism and imperialism, Dhaka University Professor Emeritus Serajul Islam Choudhury said yesterday.
The phrase “Bangalee Muslim” is generally regarded as a “living oxymoron,” and the Bangalee Muslims are considered to be perennially trapped in a dilemma of identity over their Bangaleeness and Muslimness.