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Know thy Father

Chintito

Know thy Father

Chintito

For those who were born around 1953 (and please don't cheat), meaning they were about 14 or less in 1971, the events leading up to our War of Liberation may not have unfolded to them as LIVE history. For them there is some scope not to know who had what role to play, unless their parents were wholly (also read holy) honest with them. For them it may be possible to wrongly consider that a nationwide movement that even created waves in the Thames and ripples at the Sydney Harbour was triggered by some radio waves credited to both a civilian and an army officer, depending on the current political belief of the source. Alas! No other nation born of a bloody muktijuddho suffers from such naivete.

For the rest of the living population, such an act of knowledgeable ignorance (read gyan paapi) and wilful forgetfulness is unpardonable by that person's own conscience and punishable in a people's court, more so since the judiciary has taken into cognisance the life of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in declaring 15 August as the National Mourning Day.


For those to be so wretched as to be bracketed within the definition of the second paragraph above, such repetitive mention of Bangabandhu irritates them, their blood vessels become constricted and they suffer from falsehood fatigue. But such repetition of the facts has become necessary because of the onslaught of lies by the defeated forces ofekattur, some of who till today dream of a 'one watan' with Pakistan while the vast majority of the people in that country remain busy with its inconsistent cricket, impeachment of military dictator Musharraf and befriending neighbouring India, not necessarily in that order.

For those who were born around 1953 (and the older ones whose memory need to be refreshed) here is a collage on Bangabandhu, as composed from word-for-word extracts from Syed Badrul Ahsan's Editorial 'Ground Realities: Agartala Conspiracy Case forty years on' (DS 18 June 2008), and 'Bangabandhu Life at a Glance' and Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury's 'Bangabandhu' in <www.bangabandhu.org>. Do not be surprised if it reads like the history of a nation yearning to be born.

Sheikh Mujib was born on 17 March 1920 in a middle class family at Tungipara in Gopalganj district.

His political life began as a humble worker while he was still a student. He was fortunate to come in early contact with such towering personalities as Hussain Shaheed Suhrawardy and A K Fazlul Huq, both charismatic Chief Ministers of undivided Bengal. Adolescent Mujib witnessed the ravages of the Second World War and the stark realities of the great famine of 1943 in which about five million people lost their lives.

This was also the time when he saw the legendary revolutionary Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose challenging the British raj. Also about this time he came to know the works of Bernard Shaw, Karl Marx, Rabindranath Tagore and rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Soon after the partition of India in 1947 it was felt that the creation of Pakistan with its two wings separated by a physical distance of about 1,200 miles was a geographical monstrosity. The economic, political, cultural and linguistic characters of the two wings were also different. Keeping the two wings together under the forced bonds of a single state structure in the name of religious nationalism would merely result in a rigid political control and economic exploitation of the eastern wing by the all-powerful western wing which controlled the country's capital and its economic and military might.

In 1948 a movement was initiated to make Bangla one of the state languages of Pakistan. This can be termed the first stirrings of the movement for an independent Bangladesh. The demand for cultural freedom gradually led to the demand for national independence. During that language movement Sheikh Mujib was arrested and sent to jail. During the blood-drenched language movement in 1952 he was again arrested and this time he provided inspiring leadership of the movement from inside the jail.

In 1954 Sheikh Mujib was elected a member of the then East Pakistan Assembly. He joined A K Fazlul Huq's United Front government as the youngest minister. The ruling clique of Pakistan soon dissolved this government and Sheikh Mujib was once again thrown into prison.

In 1955 he was elected a member of the Pakistan Constituent Assembly and was again made a minister when the Awami League formed the provincial government in 1956. Soon after General Ayub Khan staged a military coup in Pakistan in 1958, Sheikh Mujib was arrested once again and a number of cases were instituted against him. He was released after 14 months in prison but was re-arrested in February 1962. In fact, he spent the best part of his youth behind the prison bars.

On 18 January 1968 the Pakistan government informed the country that thirty-five individuals had been charged with conspiracy to break up Pakistan and turn East Pakistan into an independent state with assistance from the Indian government. At the top of the list was Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, president of the East Pakistan Awami League and in detention since May 1966 under the Defence of Pakistan Rules. The implication was clear: Mujib had spearheaded the conspiracy. In stark terms, one of the more prominent of Bangali politicians had engaged in subterfuge and conspiracy to destroy the unity of the state of Pakistan!

But, at that point, one needed to go back to 1966. In that year of hope for Bangalis and growing apprehension for West Pakistan, Ayub Khan had warned that those who were propagating the Six Point programme of regional autonomy would be handled through the language of weapons. In early January 1968, subtle hints were being dropped about the imminent employment of such language. The Pakistan government went full-scale into a campaign to discredit those it had taken into custody. And a particular aspect of the campaign was an obvious move to finish off Sheikh Mujibur Rahman or bring his career to an end through convicting him as a traitor to the state of Pakistan.

The Agartala case marked the rise, in meteoric manner, of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the spokesman of the Bangalis. His courage of conviction where his principles were concerned and an abundance of self-confidence were made clear in the early stages of the trial. When a western journalist asked him what he expected his fate to be, Mujib replied with characteristic unconcern: "You know, they can't keep me here for more than six months." In the event, he was to be a free man in seven months time.

On the opening day of the trial, Mujib spotted before him, a few feet away, a journalist he knew well. He called out his name, only to find the journalist not responding, obviously out of fear of all those intelligence agents present in the room. Mujib persisted. Eventually compelled to respond, the journalist whispered, "Mujib Bhai, we can't talk here . . ." And it was at that point that the future Bangabandhu drew everyone's attention to himself. He said, loud enough for everyone to hear: "Anyone who wishes to stay in Bangladesh will have to talk to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman."

On February 22, 1969, Vice Admiral A.R. Khan, Pakistan's defence minister, announced the unconditional withdrawal of the Agartala Conspiracy Case and the release of all accused. The next day, a million-strong crowd roared its approval when Tofail Ahmed, then a leading student leader, proposed honouring Mujib as Bangabandhu, friend of Bengal. On February 24, he flew off to Rawalpindi to argue the case for the Six Points.

On December 5 of that year, at a meeting to remember Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bangabandhu would inform Bangalis that henceforth East Pakistan would be known as Bangladesh. It was light unto the future. A nation was coming of age. A leader had arrived.

March 7, 1971 was a day of supreme test in his life. Nearly two million freedom loving people assembled at the Ramna Race Course Maidan, later renamed Suhrawardy Uddyan, on that day to hear their leader's command for the battle for liberation. The Pakistani military junta was also waiting to trap him and to shoot down the people on the plea of suppressing a revolt against the state. Sheikh Mujib spoke in a thundering voice but in a masterly well-calculated restrained language. His historic declaration in the meeting was: "Our struggle this time is for freedom. Our struggle this time is for independence." To deny the Pakistani military an excuse for a crackdown, he took care to put forward proposals for a solution of the crisis in a constitutional way and kept the door open for negotiations.

The crackdown, however, did come on March 25 when the junta arrested Sheikh Mujib for the last time and whisked him away to West Pakistan for confinement for the entire duration of the liberation war. In the name of suppressing a rebellion the Pakistani military let loose hell on the unarmed civilians throughout Bangladesh and perpetrated a genocide killing no less than three million men, women and children, raping women in hundreds of thousands and destroying property worth billions of taka. Before their ignominious defeat and surrender they, with the help of their local collaborators, killed a large number of intellectuals, university professors, writers, doctors, journalists, engineers and eminent persons of other professions. In pursuing a scorch-earth policy they virtually destroyed the whole of the country's infrastructure. But they could not destroy the indomitable spirit of the freedom fighters nor could they silence the thundering voice of the leader. Tape recordings of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib's 7th March speech kept on inspiring his followers throughout the war.

Forced by international pressure and the imperatives of its own domestic predicament, Pakistan was obliged to release Sheikh Mujib from its jail soon after the liberation of Bangladesh and on 10 January 1972 the great leader returned to his beloved land and his admiring nation.

He saw the plight of the country. Almost the entire nation including about ten million people returning from their refuge in India had to be rehabilitated, the shattered economy needed to be put back on the rail, the infrastructure had to be rebuilt, millions had to be saved from starvation and law and order had to be restored. Simultaneously, a new constitution had to be framed, a new parliament had to be elected and democratic institutions had to be put in place. Any ordinary mortal would break down under the pressure of such formidable tasks that needed to be addressed on top priority basis.

But at this critical juncture, his life was cut short by a group of anti-liberation reactionary forces who in a pre-dawn move on 15 August 1975 not only assassinated him but 23 of his family members and close associates. Even his 10 year old son Russel's life was not spared by the assassins. The only survivors were his two daughters, Sheikh Hasina later the country's Prime Minister - and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana, who were then away on a visit to Germany.

In killing Bangabandhu, the conspirators ended a most glorious chapter in the history of Bangladesh but they could not end the great leader's finest legacy- the rejuvenated Bangali nation. In a fitting tribute to his revered memory, the present government has declared August 15 as the national mourning day. On this day every year the people would be paying homage to the memory of a man who became a legend in his own lifetime. Bangabandhu lives in the heart of his people. Bangladesh and Bangabandhu are one and inseparable. Bangladesh was Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's vision and he fought and died for it.

Journalist Cyril Dunn once said of him, "In the thousand - year history of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujib is the only leader who has, in terms of blood, race, language, culture and birth, been a full - blooded Bangali. His physical stature was immense. His voice was redolent of thunder. His charisma worked magic on people. The courage and charm that flowed from him made him a unique superman in these times."Newsweek magazine has called him the poet of politics.

The leader of the British humanist movement, the late Lord Fenner Brockway once remarked, "In a sense, Sheikh Mujib is a greater leader than George Washington, Mahatma Gandhi and De Valera." The greatest journalist of the new Egypt, Hasnein Heikal (former editor of Al Ahram and close associate of the late President Nasser) has said, "Sheikh Mujibur Rahman does not belong to Bangladesh alone. He is the harbinger of freedom for all Bengalis. His Bengali nationalism is the new emergence of Bengali civilization and culture. Mujib is the hero of the Bengalis, in the past and in the times that are."

Embracing Bangabandhu at the Algiers Non-Aligned Summit in 1973, Cuba's Fidel Castro noted, "I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas."

Need you ask who the Father of the Nation is?


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Shantanu
 
I wonder where are you from. I mean where in Chittagong. Expolring family connections.
 
Debasish Barua

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Dear Community Members,
                              Wish you all a very happy Pohela Boishakh 1419. Rongtuli invites you to join the celebration of this Bengali New Year in a very special way, through fun filled cultural show including dance performances, drama, recitals at the Mason District Park, 6622 Columbia Pike, Annandale, VA 22203 on 5th May, 2012.
We hope to see you all there.
 
Thanks
Rongtuli team

Re: [chottala.com] Re: Why Jonokontho.



I Hope AWAMIL LEAGUE wins NEXT ELECTION too...I heard the Hoffing sound of horse continues to pound in hill of KARBALA..It is the IMAGINATION of OF WAR AGAINST RED HORSE..
 
Reminds me what we read as Kid..
 
AAM PATA JORA JORA
MARBO CHABOOK
CHORBO GHORA
OREY BUBU SHOREY DARA
ASHCEY AMAR PAGLA GHORA
PAGAL GHORA KHAEPEYCHEY
CHABOOK CHOREY MERECHEY
 
By the one one of the Main Conspirator of MUJIBS asssaniatuin is the NABAB OF PATAUDDI..his excellency MANSOOR ALI KHAN PATAUUDI...I under stand from the KHAN name of the email sender it is personel to him...well this MANSSOR is married to TAGORE Families SHARMILA..well that goes so much of Sheikh Mujib toeing HINDUSTANI LINEwell SHARMILA among many charitable activity is the spokes person for UNICEF
 
Thing is behind the MANSSOR is the BHUTTO's the looser of 1970 election...Only Guess who was behind SHIRMILA...
 
I guess the song goes...JODI HOI CHOR KATEY HOI SHARIR BHAJEY
                                   RINI JHINI BAJBO AMEY DINEY TATEY

From: dina khan <dina30_khan@yahoo.com>
To: "chottala@yahoogroups.com" <chottala@yahoogroups.com>; Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2012 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Re: Why Jonokontho.

 
BAL politicians did not want to follow BKSAL.
Sheik Sb wanted to drive RED HORSE on corrupt BAL politicians for their hijacking and looting activities by forming BKSAL Administration.
 
For this reasons
They killed him so that  no body can resist their looting activities and   no body can drive Red Horse on them  for their corrupting and looting works. After killing him they are  now freer to do more looting and killing works  wearing sleeveless black coat and uttering slogan Joy Bangobhundu.
 
 BAL politicians elected  non elected mustang cadres  BCL, BSL  and column writers think Bangladesh is a Heaven country for them to do looting extorting works to earn money and power.
They are blackmailing  people  calling sonar Bangla digital Bangla and has made Bangladesh Hell country for innocent people by making them jobless food less everything less and bounding them for food and for shelter to cross border to go  India to be killed by Indian BSF.
Column writers are getting huge Tips writing infavor of India and BAL politicians.

From: Abdul Mannan <abman1971@gmail.com>
To: Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com>
Cc: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2012 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Re: Why Jonokontho.

 
Thanks for your advise. I receive so many advise on a regular basis that I got used to it. I have  been writing for about more than two decades. I am very much aware of what goes on in the minds of different categories of readers. It makes me feel good as I know that some one out there do read my writings. I never expect everyone to accept what I write or say. However I never mislead anyone intentionally. Never shy away from calling spade a spade.

Take care and have a nice day.

M

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:
Holes in the BKSALI Professor Abdul Mannan's History Works.
Professor Mannan,
 Please note that in my previous comment there is nothing personal when I wrote "Holes in the BKSALI Professor Abdul Mannan's History Works."  I was only making remarks on your works, particularly about your writing style.
I know that personally you are a admirable individual but as you are aware that many readers of your colum find your type of work as more of propaganda than works in history. As a teacher by profession, and a former Vice Cencellor, most readers wouldn't be expecting you to mislead them. However, if you publish your works in the opinion colum of newspapers nobody would be complainning about it. You can remind the newspapers that prints your articles to publish them in their opinion column, otherwise it is you who is going to lose credibility.
Our feedbacks are to help you strengthen your writing style, because there is a difference between writing in English and analytical writing. In analytical writing ( I am sure you are aware) you are expected to check the strengths and weaknesses between two opposing sides to draw your conclusion.  In such writings you are not expected to take sides.
 
In no respect  I see myself qualified to give advise a professor,therefore the above is only my personal understanding of the nature of your works.
Regards
AB

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net> wrote:
 
Mr. Abdul Mannan,
 
The absense of popular daily "Amar Desh' from your daily reading list proves that,  you are a fervent believer of Awami/Baksali idiolgy. That's ytour right ,
I have nothing to say about it, I respect that option. Readers  will judge your comment accordingly. I believe that ,  you are not an independent writer and will be
 compensated by 'Bharotbondhu' Hasina if not received yet. Beling a believer of Bangladeshi nationalism I read regularly Awami mouthpiece  "Jonokontho" in addtion to my
favourite daily's  Jonokontho, Amader Shomoy, ManoZamin. Prothom Alo, Noya Digonto.
Your Netri rewarded most Awami supporters in last three years, she kept her promise.
Do you think Awami League will rule forever in Bangladesh ?
If the answer is "No" will you still support Awami policies  blindly ?
Many thanks.
 
Sincerely,
M.Anwar
USA


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From: Abdul Mannan <abman1971@gmail.com>
To: mohiuddin@netzero.net, chottala@yahoogroups.com,  "Dr.milton Bis" <dr.miltonbis@yahoo.com>
Subject: Why Jonokontho.
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:22:32 +0600

Where a column is sent is the prerogative of the author and should not be of the reader. The reader has the choice of not reading it. Everyday I keep eight dailies and Amardesh/ Sangram/Naya Diganta are not in my list.

Warm wishes.

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Re: [chottala.com] Re: Why Jonokontho.



There is large sum of Money to be made in bashing Awami League or Ghost of Baksal. I wonder who pays them COMMUNISTs I guess...

From: dina khan <dina30_khan@yahoo.com>
To: "chottala@yahoogroups.com" <chottala@yahoogroups.com>; Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2012 5:06 AM
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Re: Why Jonokontho.

 
BAL politicians did not want to follow BKSAL.
Sheik Sb wanted to drive RED HORSE on corrupt BAL politicians for their hijacking and looting activities by forming BKSAL Administration.
 
For this reasons
They killed him so that  no body can resist their looting activities and   no body can drive Red Horse on them  for their corrupting and looting works. After killing him they are  now freer to do more looting and killing works  wearing sleeveless black coat and uttering slogan Joy Bangobhundu.
 
 BAL politicians elected  non elected mustang cadres  BCL, BSL  and column writers think Bangladesh is a Heaven country for them to do looting extorting works to earn money and power.
They are blackmailing  people  calling sonar Bangla digital Bangla and has made Bangladesh Hell country for innocent people by making them jobless food less everything less and bounding them for food and for shelter to cross border to go  India to be killed by Indian BSF.
Column writers are getting huge Tips writing infavor of India and BAL politicians.

From: Abdul Mannan <abman1971@gmail.com>
To: Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com>
Cc: chottala@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2012 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [chottala.com] Re: Why Jonokontho.

 
Thanks for your advise. I receive so many advise on a regular basis that I got used to it. I have  been writing for about more than two decades. I am very much aware of what goes on in the minds of different categories of readers. It makes me feel good as I know that some one out there do read my writings. I never expect everyone to accept what I write or say. However I never mislead anyone intentionally. Never shy away from calling spade a spade.

Take care and have a nice day.

M

On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Abid Bahar <abid.bahar@gmail.com> wrote:
Holes in the BKSALI Professor Abdul Mannan's History Works.
Professor Mannan,
 Please note that in my previous comment there is nothing personal when I wrote "Holes in the BKSALI Professor Abdul Mannan's History Works."  I was only making remarks on your works, particularly about your writing style.
I know that personally you are a admirable individual but as you are aware that many readers of your colum find your type of work as more of propaganda than works in history. As a teacher by profession, and a former Vice Cencellor, most readers wouldn't be expecting you to mislead them. However, if you publish your works in the opinion colum of newspapers nobody would be complainning about it. You can remind the newspapers that prints your articles to publish them in their opinion column, otherwise it is you who is going to lose credibility.
Our feedbacks are to help you strengthen your writing style, because there is a difference between writing in English and analytical writing. In analytical writing ( I am sure you are aware) you are expected to check the strengths and weaknesses between two opposing sides to draw your conclusion.  In such writings you are not expected to take sides.
 
In no respect  I see myself qualified to give advise a professor,therefore the above is only my personal understanding of the nature of your works.
Regards
AB

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Mohiuddin Anwar <mohiuddin@netzero.net> wrote:
 
Mr. Abdul Mannan,
 
The absense of popular daily "Amar Desh' from your daily reading list proves that,  you are a fervent believer of Awami/Baksali idiolgy. That's ytour right ,
I have nothing to say about it, I respect that option. Readers  will judge your comment accordingly. I believe that ,  you are not an independent writer and will be
 compensated by 'Bharotbondhu' Hasina if not received yet. Beling a believer of Bangladeshi nationalism I read regularly Awami mouthpiece  "Jonokontho" in addtion to my
favourite daily's  Jonokontho, Amader Shomoy, ManoZamin. Prothom Alo, Noya Digonto.
Your Netri rewarded most Awami supporters in last three years, she kept her promise.
Do you think Awami League will rule forever in Bangladesh ?
If the answer is "No" will you still support Awami policies  blindly ?
Many thanks.
 
Sincerely,
M.Anwar
USA


---------- Original Message ----------
From: Abdul Mannan <abman1971@gmail.com>
To: mohiuddin@netzero.net, chottala@yahoogroups.com,  "Dr.milton Bis" <dr.miltonbis@yahoo.com>
Subject: Why Jonokontho.
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 18:22:32 +0600

Where a column is sent is the prerogative of the author and should not be of the reader. The reader has the choice of not reading it. Everyday I keep eight dailies and Amardesh/ Sangram/Naya Diganta are not in my list.

Warm wishes.

--
_________________________________
Abdul Mannan
Educator-Researcher-Writer-Analyst
Dhaka
Bangladesh




____________________________________________________________
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_________________________________
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Re: [chottala.com] Respected Sir



Dear Prof. Mahboob Ali,
 
  Thank you for sharing your thought provoking article. You may be interested to know that some of us with the chairmanship of Dr. A. Majeed Khan have founded an organization named "Committee of Action for Research, Extension and Services" in short CARES. One of the main objectives of CARES is research by being like a virtual University, interlinking efforts of those who are interested in research. Prioritizing and focus is in process, the major areas are in the registered document of CARES.
 
  Regards,
 
  K.M.S. Aziz

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 4:44 AM, MuhammadMahboob Ali <pipulbd@gmail.com> wrote:
 

 



 


Respected Sir:
Salam.
Hope that you are fine.
I have great respect for you.
I am giving one of my article below for your kind perusal which was published in today's Financial Express at Page:20.
Warm regards.
Your admirer,
Prof.Muhammad Mahboob Ali,PhD


Knowledge and research based education in Bangladesh
There should be more research works in our universities.
Muhammad Mahboob Ali

Knowledge and research based education is a determining factor in a country like Bangladesh. Dissemination of knowledge can create high core competencies and maintain international benchmarking. Bangladesh should ensure knowledge and research based education especially at higher level of studies. Still University of Dhaka and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) are proving their excellence as educational institutes. University of Chittagong is also famous for contributing in the society. Jahangirnagar University and Rajshahi University are also doing good. Some private universities like IUB, NSU, EWU, AIUB, BRAC have also proved their excellence. However, some universities of Bangladesh do not accept higher degrees especially PhD from public universities of Bangladesh. This is true but unfortunate. Irony is that Bangladesh doesn't lack appropriate knowledgeable person but most are not interested in doing research work.

To become efficient and effective personnel with synergy for organisations, professionals in this universe need solid realities of the society. They should act in response to the diverse issues of multi-cultural capabilities and principles. They ought to keep pace for achieving excellence of pursuit despite the fact that distance prevails between those who are the service providers and who are receiving service at the end. This gap can be narrowed down though arranging proper distribution channel of learning. Education quality should be ensured through doing international standard of research work and dissemination of knowledge without hindrance. This will help to accumulate, allocate and distribute knowledge in the global perspective. The axiom of the educational institute should be to pursue knowledge and do research work among the policy makers, researchers, entrepreneurs, business community and civil society. Environment of the educational institute will work as a communicative hub among the world of business community and technology prone people in the global perspective. As such students must refrain from national politics but they may do student politics for welfare of their own. This will help to meet the demand of the current domestic and global turbulent situation through strengthening quality assurance and capacity building of the organisations of both domestic and international arena.

In a programme of Perdana College, Dhaka on 31st March, 2012 Malaysian High commissioner Dato' Jamaluddin Bin Sabeh argued that he has been in favour of opening a branch of UCSI university, Malaysia for last three years. His comment is very much important as in the education sector we should get cross cultural educational institutes. Actually to get knowledge based education not only private or public universities are sufficient. We need high quality branches of educational institutes in Bangladesh through cross border arrangement. Earlier in this country Victoria University, Australia had a campus which was also providing high quality education. But previous government did not allow them to run the educational institute.

In India and Malaysia there are numerous branches of foreign educational universities/institutes. It is unfortunate that some profit makers in the educational sector in the name of study centre are doing misconduct. But for them we should not stop foreign branches of high quality educational institutes. Similar type of offences are being done by some private universities and medical colleges as reported by different dailies. UGC of Bangladesh may take appropriate measures so that cross border quality education institute branches can run in Bangladesh. Prof. Dr. A K Azad Chowdhury, Chairman (State Minister) of UGC is a very dynamic and capable person with high educational excellence of pursuit. Other members of the UGC are Prof. Dr. Atful Hye Shibly, Prof. Dr. Md. Muhibur Rahman, Prof. Dr. Mohammad Mohabbat Khan, Prof. Dr. Abul Hashem, Prof. Dr. Md. Akhtar Hossain. They are also very good academicians. They may address the issue of cross border education so that there is opportunity of education in quality education institutes for higher education in Bangladesh while those who are working as a study centre and not maintaining the quality will have to be driven out. Parameters must be set upon course curriculum, number of PhD faculties, research works, publications, peer reviewed journals, regular seminars, workshops, conferences, symposiums, books/journals in the library, cultural and co-curricular activities. Strong measures ought to be taken against those who are doing false business in the name of providing higher studies such as involvement of any private university or fake study centre. Quality of approved institutes /colleges of national university is miserable and there is none to control the quality as National University already failed to performed it duties.

Currently standard of some private universities is very low. Irony is that some private university possesses land more than one acre and they do not have good quality faculties. There should be a rule that each year at least two research based articles of a faculty must be published in peer reviewed journal. Many faculties in Bangladesh think that they have already finished education so why they should do further research. This sort of perception can be changed if UGC made compulsory rule for publication of research based articles. When more research work will be emphasized then quality education will be feasible.

Innovation along with proper research techniques, managerial skills and applicability of information and communication technology will lead to transformation of excellence.

Innovation can enhance managerial skill and better access to the information which provides an opportunity to explore the idea of originality. Innovative themes will help to gather knowledge in the area of achieving new products and services, fresh schemes of invention, opportunity for latest market scenario, original foundation of delivery, and dazzling performance of classification through brain storming. As such education institutes ought to put emphasis on innovation in quality education. Quality education may be very much constructive for thought provoking ideas, penetrating knowledge management, uniqueness and spread of information and communication technology. Process layout and designing of education should be done in such a manner that rejuvenation will work as a creativity to exemplify a dimensional assembling processes, superb distinct with the extent of deep-seated driving forces will fetch benefits for the participants as well as regional and global leaders and assist to formulate and implement strategies with extra zeal and passion. Knowledge diffusion will craft avenues to develops skills.

Those who are involved in providing quality education in this money centric world must posses high ethical and moral values. Quality education will be able to create ample opportunities for knowledge diffusion to build a distinguished record and provide a guideline for the present and future domestic and global scenario.

Present government may be thanked for their recent decision to give permission to open new private universities. Hope that in each district at least one public university should be set up. Side by side good colleges like Chittagong Government College, Dhaka College, Eden Girls' College may be considered to make full fledged universities. In a country where population is more that 16.8 crore we need more universities. Further we need high quality cross border educational institutes branches in Bangladesh. UGC can compulsorily ask for the faculties to do research work as a mandatory and at least two articles in a peer reviewed journal may be published in each year. Standard of the institutes/colleges under National University is very low. As such present government may set up an inquiry commission to find out how to improve the quality education of the institutes /universities. Expenditure on higher education must be raised by the government. Also philanthropists should come forward to provide donations to public universities. Syllabus should be international standard and suitable to the needs of the industry and class room atmosphere should be improved. Cross border higher education regulations should be prepared by the Ministry of Education of Bangladesh and a special bill may be placed in the National assembly. During the last three years our education minister tried to develop higher education of the country. But without global institutes higher education is not properly feasible for which special steps are required by the government.

The writer is Head of M.H. School of Business, Presidency University (Bangladesh) and Chairman, Centre for Breakthrough Thinking in Bangladesh, email: pipulbd@gmail.com












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All great looters received permit to open Banks, thanks to Bharotbondhu Hasina's love for corruption and nepotism. Hasina may have received
commiision from those new Bankers. Shob Durnitir Hishab Dite Hobe Hasina, "Tar Bapkeo Chare Nai Allah Takeo Charbe Na". Interesti gly Bangladesh Banks Deputy Governor
announced this permit, Governor was absent , Why ?


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