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Monday, February 23, 2026
TopicSheikh Mujibur Rahman

Topic: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Bangladesh’s biggest public university to rename Sheikh Mujib hall after slain student leader Osman Hadi

The move follows multiple references of Bangladesh’s founding father being removed from textbooks to infrastructures and now campus halls.

Bangladesh has been running a never-ending revenge drama. Hasina is the latest

If elections happen in Bangladesh next year without the Awami League’s participation, there is every possibility of a sudden surprise around the bend. One can only hope it would not be bloody.

Sheikh Mujib failed miserably despite succeeding as people’s leader, says author Manash Ghosh

The epilogue of Manash Ghosh’s 'Mujib’s Blunders' draws stark parallels between the conspiracy behind Sheikh Mujib’s assassination and the ouster of Sheikh Hasina.

Fidel Castro advised Sheikh Mujibur Rahman against promoting pro-Pakistan officers

In 'Mujib's Blunders', Manash Ghosh examines the blunders committed by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman after becoming the chief helmsman of Bangladesh.

Whose Bangladesh is it anyway? Ordinary people, Jamaat, or Pakistan?

Today’s Bangladesh must, like Hamlet, confront the question that haunted him. To be, or not to be, the Bangladesh birthed by 75 million dreams in 1971? Or its caricature?

Watch CutTheClutter: Hasina’s speech, end of ‘Mujibism’ & the revision of history in Bangladesh

In Episode 1603, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at Hasina's fiery speech targeting Yunus govt, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's life, Bhasha Andolan & revision of history books in Bangladesh.

Mujib’s house demolished. Not Yunus, Bangladesh’s shaky secular foundations are at fault

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s flirtations with religiosity continued to afflict Bangladesh’s body politic much after his death.

Yunus leading Bangladesh to new crossroads—being a bankrupt Islamic Republic of East Pakistan

Bangladesh has spiralled into a vortex of instability and stands today as a banana republic led by a puppet government.

Why Bangladesh’s top judicial officer is calling for removal of ‘secularism’ from constitution

Bangladesh Attorney General Mohammad Asaduzzaman also termed illegal constitutional provision declaring Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as ‘father of the nation’.

Bangladesh interim govt removes Mujib’s portraits from president’s residence, say student leaders

Move, comes after interim govt cancelled 8 national holidays instituted by Sheikh Hasina, including ones on the birth and death anniversaries of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

On Camera

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Suspected brake failure leads to Tejas accident after landing, airframe likely to be written off

The IAF, so far, remains mum on this accident which has led to grounding of the fleet for safety checks.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.