[chottala.com] please come forward beside the SIDR affected

please come forward beside the SIDR affected

dear and respectable positive dhaka members

greetings from positive bangladesh team!

you would be happy to learn that positive bangladesh is trying hard to
stand beside the helpless SIDR affected.

we have already collecting resources and instantly sending those to
the most affected areas where positive bangladesh local members are
working hard to reach the remote areas.

there are some resources already collected from members. positive
bangladesh will be centrally coordinating the initiative. Please
contact him and give your resources (cash, used or new cloths or
whatever you can donate or arrange from others), he will directly send
the resources to
respective SIDR affected areas.

we have formed a SIDR affected help team headed by our Safe Blood program
coordinator Mr. Nasir Ahmed (01715767277). The other team members are,
our Dhaka coordinator (temporarily in charge) Mr. Golam Mustafa Pappu
and Mr.
Iqbal at 01819503970

Beside, the SIDR affected help team you might want to contact the
following members of the Positive Bangladesh Coordination team, Mr.
Zakir Hussain Khan at 01713065546 (Gulshan-1, Rampura, badda), Mr.
Rashedul Alam at 01718189321 (Mirpur), Mahbub Rashid Robin-01816019020
(Lalmatia mohammedpur, Mr. Abe Kawser-01552352892 (all around and
nearby Farm gate and Nikunja), Ms. Fauzia Nayeb-01552482220
(Gulshan-2, Banani, DOHS), Mr. Himel
Alam-01712698370 (Green road, Dhanmondi), Sabrina Karim Siveta (VNC & VNS)

The SIDR coordination team working at Chittagong 01731402246,
01711721805 (on request)

The SIDR coordination team working at Khulna consisting our khulna
coordinator Progga Maria-01718019086 , mirazul
islam--01198145553.041-785467. ezaz nasim prince--01195069544

dear friends, the people in the SIDR affected areas are passing their
worst days, if you care for humanity, this is the right time to come
forward and stand beside humanity from our own positive within our
capability.

All other areas and/or if you want to send money through government
approved banking channel or western union please contact our
coordinator at the contact nos given below. please come forward with
whatever you have.

Thank you

Mizanur Rahman
Coordinator, postiive bangladesh.
+8801199481700 +8801731467633 +8801912389878

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[chottala.com] future of US dollar is not bright an article by famous scholar dr Ebne Golam Samad

dear all ,

         an article entitled future of US dollar is not bright published in todays nayadiganta.pls read n comment.

 

 

 

 

link:

 

 

 

http://www.dailynayadiganta.com/fullnews.asp?News_ID=54031&sec=4

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[chottala.com] An Article about Neo-Razakar (From the Daily New Nation)

I hope you will enjoy the following article published in the New Nation (Nov. 19, 2007).

 

http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2007/11/19/news0500.htm

 

 

Perspectives from a post-Liberation era

Abu Rawsab

It has largely become an integral part of our national psyche to associate our identity and existence with the war of liberation in 1971. We found it nothing wrong as our national independence came because of long struggle and paramount sacrifice. However, when we began to understand our national history, we came to realize that many contentious issues remained not only unsolved, but have also been kept alive. What we found is that a significant part of our population politically opposed the idea of separation, which is common to every liberation war and civil justice movement all over the world. What makes us so puzzled is that we-as a generation born after our liberation-have no clear answer from the history as to why a quarter of our population opposed the idea of a separated independent Bangladesh. Historians largely and lazily tried to not to uncover that mystery. Since it's a question of our identity and existence, we passionately feel that we need to have a clear understanding of not only "how" but also "why" a portion of our population did not subscribe to the idea of an independent Bangladesh.

Rather than having a clear historical account of our liberation, the whole realm becomes so diluted and vague that most often we have trouble in separating facts from fictions. We still suffer from a lack of consensus on some fundamental issues such as who declared independence, how many people were killed and raped, who opposed the war, why and in what way. One of the conspicuous reasons behind this diluted atmosphere is, as we observed, using the "liberation war" for political purpose. The political culture of last three decades was largely fraught with lies, fabrications, concoctions and emotional dispositions; and since liberation war has been one of the key issues in the realm of politics, our national identity has become diluted and contaminated. What we observed is that people-mostly political leaders-engrossed and embedded in that contaminated politics gradually became emotional and fanatic in attacking their political opponents and began to lose their objective disposition and fairness. So much emotions, exaggerations, concoctions, obduracy and extreme rebuffs towards political opponents are some of the traits that our political leaders and their hard-core supporters have been maintaining and nurturing for last three decades. Consequences are also apparent. It has divided the whole nation into two: pro and against liberation. They use this "forged and discursive construction" for political gain a is if liberation (shadhinata) is their personal and political property. They use this construction in most of their speeches, wrongly attack their political opponents, and brand them with some negative terms. They become blind as to how they are damaging the nation. As the issue of 1971 becomes their main political agenda, they use the emotions and dispositions of people for their own interest. They do not resolve the issue of 1971 as they will lose their political agenda. Sometimes they become so fanatic and lose every iota of objective thinking that they do not hesitate to even brand "Razakar" to those who were born after 1971, and those who were freedom fighters but subscribe to different political ideology. And other people, whatever role they had in 1971, become great "freedom-fighters" if they come to the fold of their political party. In this way, being or not being in the political party becomes a "yardstick" as to who is a freedom fighter and who is not. They constantly focus on division, rather than cohesion. There are some conspicuous negative consequences of this construction, which we have witnessing for last three decades:

First, it makes people "retrogressive". As 1971 becomes the focal point and subsequently occupies all of their imaginations, it makes a great hindrance for moving further. Who is pro-liberation and who is not becomes the main political and individual agenda, and consequently national development, social cohesion and progress always remain a secondary priority. It not only leads to stagnation, but also constantly drives us to go backwards. Consequently, our nation remains lagged behind economically, socially, and culturally. Second, it makes a clear-cut and sometimes ambivalent division of the nation as expounded before. Many nations of the world faced almost similar juncture, and unlike some politicians of Bangladesh, the great politicians of those nations had different strategies to move forward as they had far-sighting vision to build their nations. They all focused on cohesion, rather than difference or division. Abraham Lincoln, for example, became famous as he devoted his utmost efforts to erase the dichotomy of white masters and black slaves. Noble peace prize laureate Nelson Mandela of South Africa did the same. Even the founding father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, offered a "general amnesty" to all who opposed the liberation movement with a view to moving forward with harmony and cohesion among people. The biggest example we find in the case of the "Victory of Makka" by Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The people of Makka who once tried with all of their efforts to hurt and eventually kill the prophet, which forced him to migrate to Medina and waged several battles against the prophet himself. However, the prophet (peace be upon him) vehemently declared to the people of Makka, "Today you are free and independent, I do not have any complain against you." After that he never focused on division, rather one of the aims of his mission was to create cohesion and peaceful coexistence among the people even with different faith.

Finally, it creates a culture of hatred, division and emotion. They regard the whole nation as their own property. It eventually makes them arrogant, lusty of power by any means. Well-being of the country becomes the secondary agenda. If the politics with liberation fails, they never hesitate to create a global awareness against the country, and its own people.

The people who collaborated with Pakistani army to serve their interest were known as "razakars". They were both opportunists and paid agents and comprised of both Bangalis and non-Bangalis (especially Biharis). In the similar vein, we also witness a small but strong cohort of people who are collaborating with India, Israel and the United Stares to serve the interest of these countries at the expense of our national unity and progress. It has become a lucrative career for a quarter of so-called journalists and intellectuals these days. Though they identify themselves as "the real patriots" and harbinger of independence to our nation to occlude their real faces, they are actively engaged in anti-state activities by exploiting the current political situation. Though Bangladesh is a great example of communal harmony and social cohesion, these people discursively concoct different fabricated stories and problematise different contentious issues such as communalism, talibanism and religious terrorism or fundamentalism to invite foreign intervention; and this is exactly what Bangladesh is currently suffering from. Because of their active anti-state activities, these people appeared as "neo-razakars."

Liberation is a continuous process. We got liberation from Pakistani oppression in 1971 with a hope that we would liberate ourselves from poverty, corruption, tyranny, foreign dependence and intervention and all forms of injustices. Rather than liberating ourselves from all these, our nation unfortunately went deeper into the quagmire of all these. After our liberation from Pakistan, those who took responsibility in liberating our nation from all these problems and in bringing progress; they often use 1971 as an ideological guise and 'political property' not only to hide their gross failure and massive corruptions during their regimes but also to stigmatise their political opponents branding them as anti-liberation and with other derogatory terms. As a generation in post liberation era, we strongly feel that Bangladesh needs further liberation from the shackle of these neo-razakars.



(Abu Rawsab writes from Canada. He can be reached at: aburawsab@gmail.com

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Re: [chottala.com] Taslima Nasreen: Controversy's child [BBC Report]

It seems that now the secured & correct place of Taslima Nasreen is the Special Jail House where special facilities should be arranged for her to provide  proper quality education to know & to learn what is the real term & meaning by nature of humanity & human right along with the women's responsibility in the building  of family life & in caring the children  as mom  & about the aim of religious faith according to the nature of the universal creation for rebuildng the enlighted good human society.

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Taslima Nasreen: Controversy's child

Ms Nasreen faced death threats in Bangladesh Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen has been forced to leave her adopted city of Calcutta in India after riots by Muslims there. Her writings have made her a controversial figure for more than a decade. The doctor-turned-writer first made a name for herself with her feisty newspaper columns, picking up a prestigious Bengali literary award in India for her book, Nirbachito Kolam (Selected Columns) in 1992. She has since written nearly 30 books of poetry, essays, novels and short stories in her native Bengali language, mostly in exile. Ms Nasreen fled her home country Bangladesh in 1995 after Muslim extremists called for her death following her most controversial book, "Lajja" (Shame). The book was banned for offending Muslim religious sentiments. Come what may, I will never be silenced Taslima Nasreen She was reported to have told an Indian newspaper that Islamic religious edicts should be changed. Her comments enraged some militant Muslim Islamic groups. Falling foul They pronounced a death sentence on the writer and offered $2,000 to anyone who killed her. For a few months, Ms Nasreen lived under heavy security at her apartment in the capital, Dhaka, before leaving the country for Sweden. Muslim groups feel that her writings ridicule Islam She returned to Bangladesh in 1998 to visit her ailing mother and faced renewed threats from extremist Islamic activists. After her mother's death, Ms Nasreen went to live in Paris. In 1999, the Bangladeshi government banned her book, My Childhood, saying it could hurt the people's religious sentiments. Earlier that year, the government disapproved of a poem she wrote in her mother's memory in an Indian magazine, and stopped imports of the issue carrying the poem. And in 2002, the authorities in Bangladesh banned her newly published novel Wild Wind - a sequel to My Girlhood - saying that the book could anger the country's Muslim majority and lead to religious tensions. It was the third time in a decade that one of Ms Nasreen's works had fallen foul of the country's laws. 'Untenable' ban A magistrate's court in Bangladesh even gave her a one-year prison sentence on a charge of writing derogatory comments about Islam in her books. "The political parties [in Bangladesh] use religion for their own interests and whenever they find any criticism about religion, they can't tolerate it, so they ban the book," she told the BBC Bengali Service in August 2002. Even in India, Ms Nasreen's work was banned after Muslim groups protested. In 2003, her autobiography "Dwikhondito" (Split into two), was banned by the Communist government in West Bengal state where a quarter of the population is Muslim. Ms Nasreen has said she wants to continue living in Calcutta Two years later, a court in West Bengal lifted the ban saying it was "unjustified and untenable". In September 2005, she was given a one-year Indian visa and permission to stay in Calcutta. Since then she has been living in the city after getting her visa extended. Ms Nasreen has always said she wants to make Calcutta, capital of West Bengal state, her home even though the European Union has offered her refuge. "East [Bengal] has already closed the doors to me... so I want to stay in West Bengal where I feel at home," she said once. East Bengal covered what is now Bangladesh. Though many Indian writers have criticised the quality of Ms Nasreen's work, they have consistently supported her efforts at staying on in the country. In April 2005, a group of Bengali writers, poets and intellectuals openly supported her plea for Indian citizenship. "Like us, she is a Bengali, and she only writes in Bengali. She cannot enter Bangladesh, so her only option is to live amongst Bengalis in Calcutta if she has to exist as a writer of some consequence," said writer Shib Narain Ray. That might become difficult with the recent riots in Calcutta with a fringe Muslim group saying that she should leave the city. Ms Nasreen has been threatened by Muslim groups outside Bengal too. In August, Muslim protesters attacked her during a book launch in Andhra Pradesh state in southern India. Ms Nasreen, who backed into a corner, said the attack was barbaric but pledged she would not be cowed. http://www.mukto-mona.com/new_site/mukto-mona/muk-forums.htm SEE ALSO Calcutta calm after day of riots 22 Nov 07 |  South Asia Army deployed after Calcutta riot 21 Nov 07 |  South Asia Farmers and Marxists at loggerheads 16 Mar 07 |  South Asia Violence marks Bengal shutdown 08 Jan 07 |  South Asia Taslima Nasreen gets Indian visa 01 Sep 05 |  South Asia 'Bengal Maoists' target car plant 04 Dec 06 |  South Asia RELATED INTERNET LINKS Taslima Nasreen Communist Party Of India (Marxist) Trinamul Congress Government of West Bengal The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites

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[chottala.com] Re: [chottala] Anybody in Canada

Milon,

Please go through it and fill out the application forms correctly and then send to me, I will take of fee.

 

Fazlu, address in Canada:

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Re: [chottala.com] Need Sidr's pitures

Dear Morshedul Basher,

 

If you check the online editions of Bangla and English newspapers and some on-line weblogs then you can get ample information.

 

The devastation is severe. We sent one of our staff and the picture is bleak.

 

About 2.5 million people are displaced and over 4500 have died or are lost. People are starving. Relief is coming but the hinterlands are being left out where the pain and dislocation are acute.

 

Bangladesh needs support. The army and citizens of Bangladesh are putting a valient effort. We have receive commitment of tk 3500 crore but we have to be vigilant as to the money being spent judiciously and ensure virtually no corruption.

 

Hope this information is helpful.

 

Ziaur Rahman

IITM

Dhaka

 

On 11/24/07, Morshedul Basher <morshed_usa@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Member,

I need some some from Hurricane SIDR, any help or suggestion will be greatly appreciate.

 

Thank you

 

Morshed

Florida

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