August 2016

Enayetullah Khan In the dawn of August 15, 1975, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman made one of his final phone calls to his military secretary Col Jamil Uddin Ahmad. He had been attacked, Bangabandhu told Col Jamil, and the residence on Road 32 was surrounded. Then the line went dead. On a night when conspiracy was…

Mohammad Ali Sattar The early dawn of August 15, 1975 was easily the darkest dawn in the post liberation history of Bangladesh. The event that no one could imagine had its face bared in the ugliest way. The early autumn dawn was ominous in so many ways. The evil forces which gathered in places of…

Samiul Bashar Samin He looks into their eyes and the despair in their red eyes says it all. It seemed like it had been eons since they last saw the colors of the sky to be blue. Rainbows were just ancient mytholo to them. There was not a single cloud that failed to breathe out…

Sakib Khondoker I never thought in my dreams that I would get to witness the real life House Of Cards. If you haven’t watched this amazing TV series, do watch it. I can bet you won’t be able to relate to the ongoing US Presidential Candidate race with anything else. The US political drama portrays…

Ashik Kabir ashikk992@gmail.com The month of August had put a scare on the heart of those Bangladeshi people who always believe in the sovereignty of Bangladesh. 15th August 1975, is the day which remains as the darkest hour in the history of the Bangladesh. The leader of the nation, the prolific writer of the freedom…

First I had one; Now I have three best friends.

Tarannum Sattar 39 days on, Dhaka is still gripped with the fear of July 01. The post-trauma state of the family is only deteriorating. And the ones who went missing are being pleaded to get back home. Everywhere we look now, there is disbelief and mistrust in each other. A line has been drawn between…

Syed Nasir Ershad After they voted to leave the EU, there were huge celebrations among Brexit campaigners and Eurosceptics across Britain. On the morning of Friday June 24, Prime Minister David Cameron stepped down because he had lost his Project Fear campaign to stay in the EU. His statement was that he would do everything…

Fabia Shahzadi You’ve worked hard, and now there’s a hefty chunk of time out to enjoy. But whether you’re between years at university or finishing your A Levels, a summer wasted isn’t always a good thing. 1 – Drifting aimlessly Give yourself time to recover, but don’t lose all focus. Once you end up feeling…

Samiul Bashar Samin It is a familiar story. A superpower goes to war and faces a stronger-than-expected insurgency in distant lands, yet has insufficient forces to counter it because of political and military constraints. The superpower decides to hire contractors, some of whom are armed, to support its war effort. The armed contractors prove to…