I can go to Bangladesh and get 100 people in my sample. I will chose in such a manner that 90 out of those 100 would say that they love Sheikh Hasina and would want Bangladesh to get rid of the interim government. I can then publish the results under some obscure and shady think tank or whatever and get people with agenda like Mr Mahmud to share it. Some people would buy it and some would not.
Bangladesh is more than welcome to become the outpost of an actual hegemon who wants to use it as a base for their own strategic interests. But when the chicken would come home to roost, I am sure people like the author can spin and twist it to blame India. Judging by the attacks and intimidation of bauls, liberation war veterans and religious minority leaders, I am grateful as an Indian Bengali to people like Mr Mahmud to showcase how Bangladeshis are not Bengalis and how 1971 was a civil war between the Islamists and moderate Pakistanis who were understandably disgusted at Operation Searchlight.
It is more pertinent for Bengalis in West Bengal to protect the culture and the language. And all the more important to kick out the closeted Islamists who use the language to destroy it and its accompanying culture.
Mr Faisal is trying too hard. His words should be directed at the “interim government” to call for elections next week itself since it is so popular. Or did the student leaders succumb to the intellectual fallacy of democratic systems run by surveys conducted by another sovereign situated thousand of miles away ? It is laughable that the author is relying on surveys. It is also seems to paint a sorry picture where citizens are being made to read reasons to accept validity of interim non democractically elected governments. Conduct elections before lest crutching on straws is the new normal.
I can go to Bangladesh and get 100 people in my sample. I will chose in such a manner that 90 out of those 100 would say that they love Sheikh Hasina and would want Bangladesh to get rid of the interim government. I can then publish the results under some obscure and shady think tank or whatever and get people with agenda like Mr Mahmud to share it. Some people would buy it and some would not.
Bangladesh is more than welcome to become the outpost of an actual hegemon who wants to use it as a base for their own strategic interests. But when the chicken would come home to roost, I am sure people like the author can spin and twist it to blame India. Judging by the attacks and intimidation of bauls, liberation war veterans and religious minority leaders, I am grateful as an Indian Bengali to people like Mr Mahmud to showcase how Bangladeshis are not Bengalis and how 1971 was a civil war between the Islamists and moderate Pakistanis who were understandably disgusted at Operation Searchlight.
It is more pertinent for Bengalis in West Bengal to protect the culture and the language. And all the more important to kick out the closeted Islamists who use the language to destroy it and its accompanying culture.
Mr Faisal is trying too hard. His words should be directed at the “interim government” to call for elections next week itself since it is so popular. Or did the student leaders succumb to the intellectual fallacy of democratic systems run by surveys conducted by another sovereign situated thousand of miles away ? It is laughable that the author is relying on surveys. It is also seems to paint a sorry picture where citizens are being made to read reasons to accept validity of interim non democractically elected governments. Conduct elections before lest crutching on straws is the new normal.