Our cricketers will suffer the most over this difficult period which is why they must receive full sympathy and financial support. If this means that we forfeit participation in the 2026 World Cup (as has now transpired) so be it. There will be another opportunity in 2 years. The ICC decision, unjust and illegal, is […]
Concept and functions of proposed upper house. This is the concluding part of a two-part series The basic concept could then be as follows. One of the two chambers would be relatively unchanged, a lower house consisting of politicians who have won from their constituencies in free and fair elections. The majority party in the […]
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The main problem with the Bangladesh Constitution is that the post of prime minister is too powerful. This comes about because in our single house system the Jatiyo Sangsad is almost the sole repository of power. As a result whoever is the leader of the majority party has unlimited scope to do whatever he […]
A formidable take on the depredations carried out by the Company William Dalrymple has written about almost every phase, and every facet, of the British experience in India, from the early swashbuckling, colorful years to grim disasters in the grip of the foreigner, such as the uprising of 1857 and the colonial wars in Afghanistan. […]
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The Grand Slam tournament is one of the emblems of the British people Of all the tennis Grand Slams, the one I had always wanted to experience was Wimbledon, yet it has always proved impossible to acquire good tickets. As the years went by, it dawned on me that I may never get the chance […]
It shouldn’t be difficult for Modi to mobilise global support Just got back from Delhi a few days ago, and I’m still slightly reeling from the blow of its huge blast. The towering government offices which house India’s civil and military establishment, South Block and its ilk, have shed the dusty sleepiness I remember from […]
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MY KABUL STORY Original Author: Nasreen Sattar On a work trip to Kabul in 2008 I was meeting the only friend I had who lived in the city. As I waited at the hotel entrance to be picked up, an enormous dark grey SUV looking like a battle tank hove slowly into view. The door […]
Concluding Part Acts of Faith: Javed Akhtar, Shazia Omar, Tabish Khair and Mudar Patherya with Mir Afsar Ali I have always been fascinated by the person and work of the great poet Javed Akhtar and so I am delighted to have a chance to hear his views from up close (and little do I know […]
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The Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet was held from 25-29 January 2017 at the Victoria Memorial Hall. There were two spectacular venues, one under a shamiana erected on the east side and the other within the quadrangle on the western side. As always at literary festivals there were too many events scheduled for anyone to […]
Sunil Gavaskar’s grit and tenacity made him a batsman of the highest order Researching my recent article on Hanif Muhammad (“Hanif Muhammad’s Epic Innings,” Dhaka Tribune, August 17), I became increasingly interested in the crucial differences between big scores made in the first and second innings of a Test match. In brief, the batsman has […]