Propaganda about Bangabandhu's Declaration of Independence: Who is qualified to write this history?
Abid Bahar
Who is qualified to write history. Is it the trained historians, propagandists or the High Court judges? The article (see the link) raises some valid questions.
Link: history?http://www.storyofbangladesh.com/blog/tmhussain/48-baseless-tainting-of-historical-facts.html
First, who writes history? History is written by trained historians through providing relevant sources/ facts. In the Hasina's contemporary Awami League rule, history is being written and given its seal of validity by judges appointed by the political party.
To me if history is written by judges or propagandists, it means the party in power creates selective information to its preferences. It is not constructing knowledge (truth) through critical thinking. Judges writing history is not new in history. Hasina's judges writing history is a confirmation that Hasina turned Bangladesh simply into a fascist state.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:21 PM, Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:
Zia is Remembered but his ideas were forgotten in the BNP:
It is true, except for a few leaders, every one in the BNP leadership lost touch with creative ideas for the Party. Most importantly they lost everything of what Zia stood for:
(1) Zia welcomed new ideas
(2) He was personally honest.
(3) He lived a simple life
(4) He was driven by patriotism to work for the country
(5) He was not a demagogue but was a hard working person.
(6) He was being proud of Bangladesh and its citizens
(7) He believed that after the independence we are all Bangladeshis and everybody should be given chance to work hard for Bangladesh, irrespective of ethnicity, culture, religion and political or ideological orientation. With this he united the nation as Bangladeshis. Most important of all Zia was open to new ideas, allowed competent people to work for the country. Khalida's first term in office was as if the continuation of the short lived Zia's rule. Starting from her second term in office, we see opportunist and corrupt people in the party and there is hardly any difference between the BNP and the Awami League except one is anti Indian and the other one is pro-Indian.
It says a fish starts rotting from the head, our two national leaders and the associates are careless, callous and helping Bangladesh to wither from a disease in the head. It is so bad that you can't even criticize the leaders! The fascist followers in both parties would see it as being destructive. They are so insecure that they get very upset not realizing that constructive criticism can bring change from within for a brighter future of the party and the country.
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:19 PM, MBI Munshi <mbimunshi@gmail.com> wrote:This has always been the problem with the BNP. The same issue is also there with Jamaat. They do not easily accept ideas from non-Jamaati sources. Both the BNO and Jamaat are copying ideas from my book The India Doctrine but will never admit it. This is the level of their arrogance and this why they will always be behind the AL.RegardsMBI Munshi--On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Jalal Uddin Khan <jukhan@gmail.com> wrote:
1. The tyranny of BAL majority earned by Indian sacks of money has reached such an intolerable state that they did not allow BNP meeting over Shafik Rehman's book launching ceremony in Hotel Ruposhi Bangla (Intercontinental) this evening to go ahead. This is BAL-BAKSAL-RakkhiBahini terrorism.2. BAL leaders say BNP/Ershad tried to distort and wipe out "their' history. Their grudge is of course on BNP, not on Ershad who is now their strange but sweet bedfellow. But don't BAL see that it is they who are wiping out true history because during their time they never , he is vilified. What a betrayal, what a treachery!!! The true fact is that BNP never forgot Sheikh Mujib. On all national occasions, BNP did not mind to mention Sheikh Mujib.3. BAL's love of India is more passionate than the love of any two young lovers. Look, this morning they honored Tripura chief minister Manik Sarkar as one of those who contributed to Bdesh liberation war. But it was alleged that it was a highly controversial honor since Manik Sarkar had hardly any contribution. Even politicians of his state do not agree that he deserves this honor. Don't forget Tripura University has recently awarded honorary doctorate to Sheikh Hasina.4. It is to be regretted that we, who belong to anti-BAL camp with pronounced sympathy with BNP, never get any feedback/comments/observations from pro-BNP G9 or Mr Shafik Rehman or Mr Shaukat Mahmud or Dhaner Sheesh, who are close to BNP leadership and who I originally started to include in our group. It seems people like them do not care for PR; it seems they do not care to connect with the like-minded fellows home and abroad. If so, how can they conribute to anti-BAL agenda? Many of us suggested many nice ideas from time to time but never we got any response from these BNP leaders whose email contact we have. Even the office of the US president replies if one sends a letter to him. Some time ago I suggested that why can't we float the idea of Zia as "Hazar Bochorer Shrestha Bangladeshi" or that BNP launch yet another party organ called Jatiyotabadi Gram Bangla Dal, to counter BAL's recent similar new organ called Trinomul BAL. But we never got any response, even out of courtesy, from any close to BNP high command.5. As we know, Mr Shafik Rehman hosts the Art Show Lal Golap on B Vision. He did program on "hair" (chul), "Jutu (shoes), etc. A few months back, I offered twoprovide him with two highly readable lucid informative introductory historical illustrated articles on "umbrella" and "The Game of Chess" from a certain source with the intention of furnishing some materials for his show. And asked him if he would like to have the articles. He never cared to reply back. What a prejudice!! How prejudiced are we? Don't we deserve even a simple two word "Thank you" note?
MBI Munshi
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