
21st February is the International Mother Language Day. The choice of the date owes its origin to the state language movement of East Bengal beginning with the creation of Pakistan in 1947 and ending with the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971. The saga of this martyrdom for mother tongue is the subject of this book written by a participant in the movement, who is a luminary in the intellectual horizon of Bangladesh. The book gives the details of the movement from 1947.
First published in 1978 it was then the most authentic and comprehensive study of the historical, political and economic background of the emergence of the new nation, Bangladesh. Rich in useful rare data collected from different sources varying from personal to international, this book gives a vivid description of the birth of the nation by one who had a unique access to rare source materials.
This book looks at the career of the Muslim League in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) from 15 August 1947, the day it assumed political power from the Raj, to the election of 8 March 1954, when it was massively defeated by a newly-formed United Front.
Protracted conflicts, unequal burden sharing, climate change, globalization, and shifting policies regarding immigration, asylum, work and development are changing the nature of forced displacements and blurring the line between forced migration and economic migration.
This book is an outcome of a study on corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and their contextual determinants in Bangladesh, with a focus on the Bangladeshi pharmaceutical industry. The author argues that businesses in Bangladesh need to collaborate with the government to close the existing gap of distrust and lack of confidence.
Acinpakhi Infinity combines a wide range of theoretical learning and understanding of the indigenous theatre in Bangladesh and describes fully the way in which the tradition lives in Bangladesh today. It studies over eighty genres, which are related to various religions, (such as Islam and Buddhism), and cults . It also includes a number of secular performances.
This book consists of thirty diverse papers by leading scholars covering such varied themes as history, politics and governance, economy and development, and society and culture. Historical topics include the British colonial regime, the Bengali Muslim middle class, the origin of the Sonar Bangla concept, and the role of the superpowers during 1971. The papers on politics and governance examine the relationship between the state and religion, party politics and parliamentary behaviour, violence and the state, and the identity politics of indigenous peoples.
দেশভাগের পর থেকে এই বাংলায় রবীন্দ্রনাথ এক আলোচিত নাম-কখনও রবীন্দ্রচর্চায় সরকারি বাধার কারণে আর প্রায়ই সরকারি প্রতিক্রিয়ার বিকার ঠেকাতে বাঙালির প্রতিরোধের প্রধান অবলম্বন হিসেবে। এদেশে যাঁরা রবীন্দ্রচর্চায় নিষ্ঠার সাথে কাজ করছেন তাঁদের মধ্যে আবুল মোমেন তাঁর বিশ্লেষণধর্মী প্রজ্ঞাপূর্ণ লেখার জন্যে গুণগ্রাহী পাঠকের কাছে সমাদৃত। রবীন্দ্রনাথকে নিয়ে তাঁর বেশ কয়েকটি বই আছে, এটি দ্বিতীয় প্রবন্ধের বই। এখানে তাঁর লেখায় মুসলিম সমাজে রবীন্দ্রনাথকে গ্রহণে যে দ্বিধা ও দোলাচল তার ব্যাখ্যা মিলবে; সঙ্গীতের সূত্রে নতুন ভাবনার সাথে পরিচয় ঘটবে, বিশ্ব ভ্রামণিক রবীন্দ্রনাথের পরিচয়ে চমক