From BBC World Service*: Listen to the radio piece: https://soundcloud.com/mahfuz-sadique-1/shahbag-talking-about-my Shahbag: Talking about my generation Shahbag, the name of a roundabout in central Dhaka, has come to to represent much more – Continue reading
Islam’s New Face by Mahfuz Sadique* “When the right time comes, we shall achieve our goal,’ says a smiling, bright-eyed Mohiuddin Ahmed. As the head of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Bangladesh, he Continue reading
This time around, they will change Bangladesh I met Abdul Kader Mridha in Joyshara. It was early April. He was sitting on a makeshift bamboo bench, facing the only convenience Continue reading
by Mahfuz Sadique <> Probably not conceived as a symbolic move in itself, yet an attempt to remove a few bricks from the main foundation of Aparejeyo Bangla at Dhaka Continue reading
Mahfuz Sadique on the return of a martyr… A small patch of land in the graveyard for Class IV employees of the Mashrur Airbase in Karachi, has long belonged to Continue reading
Mahfuz Sadique on Dhaka’s winters… Awaiting the blood-red krishnachuras to set ablaze the coming afternoons, and usually the boulevards of politics too, with the recurrent lull of fluffy Falguni saris, Continue reading
HM Ershad is again the talk of the town, and again about to play the power game as he does so well. Will he, won’t he join the ruling alliance? Continue reading
Mahfuz Sadique on the Ekushey Boi Mela… Here is a thought, or rather a suggestion, which has long been in circulation: instead of the prime minister, why not have national Continue reading
History records numerous uprisings against colonial repression but while remembering them we often forget the Santal rising where bows and arrows rose defiantly against guns and canons. As Mahfuz Sadique Continue reading
Mahfuz Sadique on the Ekushey Boi Mela I can’t help but hearing this complaint regularly: we are a nation that is becoming devoid of joy. What does that mean? No, Continue reading
