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Saturday, March 14, 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

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.