Post-election (or selection) twelve month caesuras of 2014 was the cauldron where unabashed hatred and miasma were brewed only to spill over by the sheer lack of political wisdom on the part of the one-person-rule-of-SHW (Sheikh Hasina Wajed).
Yes, BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) too, is ruled by one-person wish and whims and it made and continues to make serious political mistakes. This, however, does not negate their continued 30+% popular support.
Buoyed by winning a flawed election, SHW just cannot wish the opponent away. And with the headwind of public mood as evidenced by the local elections of previous year, she also cannot offer a fair and interim election in which her boat is almost certain sink. So, she took the hawkish stand to tame the political enemy by brute force; underneath which, a sense of moral guilt and/or uneasiness is easily palpable. She is showering the military and other law enforcement outfits with all-they-want … being unbeknownst of the power of people – her ultimate master!
Yes, BNP (Bangladesh Nationalist Party) too, is ruled by one-person wish and whims and it made and continues to make serious political mistakes. This, however, does not negate their continued 30+% popular support.
Buoyed by winning a flawed election, SHW just cannot wish the opponent away. And with the headwind of public mood as evidenced by the local elections of previous year, she also cannot offer a fair and interim election in which her boat is almost certain sink. So, she took the hawkish stand to tame the political enemy by brute force; underneath which, a sense of moral guilt and/or uneasiness is easily palpable. She is showering the military and other law enforcement outfits with all-they-want … being unbeknownst of the power of people – her ultimate master!
Whatever rotten it can be, Begum Khaleda Zia (BKZ) needed a little space to maneuver; pressed against the wall, even a dog shall bark. So it happened, and now we live in the dark dungeons of BKZ/SHW paradigm.
It is now a fight unto finish for the two leaders. No – it is not a fight between the file and rank of BAL (Bangladesh Awami League) and BNP; they socialize, they intermarry and they all are not hate mongers …
In her zeal to fight the melee, supposedly unleashed by BKZ’s unwilling utterance of “OBORUDH” when she herself was “OBORUDDHO” by the silly acts of some very silly police-politicians on a silly presumption of “SECURITY”.
SHW has ordered her gun-bearing outfits to do all they can without worrying about any legal consequences. She may not have the “Lal Gora” her farther had, but she has the equivalent in totally politicized police, BGB and RAB.
Well, she also is borrowing a chapter from the dark days of BKZ's regime when she granted indemnity to military thugs – Operation Clean Heart whereby was morphed into an Operation Heart Attack.
It is now a fight unto finish for the two leaders. No – it is not a fight between the file and rank of BAL (Bangladesh Awami League) and BNP; they socialize, they intermarry and they all are not hate mongers …
In her zeal to fight the melee, supposedly unleashed by BKZ’s unwilling utterance of “OBORUDH” when she herself was “OBORUDDHO” by the silly acts of some very silly police-politicians on a silly presumption of “SECURITY”.
SHW has ordered her gun-bearing outfits to do all they can without worrying about any legal consequences. She may not have the “Lal Gora” her farther had, but she has the equivalent in totally politicized police, BGB and RAB.
Well, she also is borrowing a chapter from the dark days of BKZ's regime when she granted indemnity to military thugs – Operation Clean Heart whereby was morphed into an Operation Heart Attack.
The other day four senior ministers of SHW-regime had a meeting with the who’s who of Bangladeshi Media. No, they were not there to intimidate. There were there to lay the facts on table that things are all hunky dory in the land of BAL.
By the way, which country they live in? Do their kids go in school in Bangladesh? Do they ride on public bus? Do they do their health check in Bangladeshi hospitals? Nope… but they surely have visited the burn unit in DMCH along with their big entourage including a few television cameras …
By the way, which country they live in? Do their kids go in school in Bangladesh? Do they ride on public bus? Do they do their health check in Bangladeshi hospitals? Nope… but they surely have visited the burn unit in DMCH along with their big entourage including a few television cameras …
No, things are not hunky dory. Lives of the little people are in ruins. State power is helpless and cannot provide security to its people. And this reminds this scribe of another dark age of our history, when state was in tatters and melee was the norm.
Yes, after the death of Sasanka, sociopolitical construct of Bengal (from late 7th to early 8th century AD) was in chaos. Harshavardhana of Kanauj- Sasanka’s perpetual nemesis took a big bite while the rest was wrested by Bhaskaravarman, king of Kamrup.
Without an overarching power (of Hobbs’ Leviathan), the petty chieftains were running amok. Rule of law vanished. Rich and powerful were preying on the poor and weak. Taranath, the astute Tibetan Monk coined the word ‘MATHSHANNYA (a moral parallel of large fish eating small fish)” to describe this state of total entropy. It was the six hundreds and early seven hundreds.
Now fast forward more than a millennium to first month of 2015; two unwise persons, driven largely by personal animosity for each other are the prime movers and their minions and the elites of the civil and arms-bearing outfits abetted by a self-serving genre of business-bureaucrat nexus is running amok and gobbling up the little fish,
I mean, the poor and the powerless … its déjà vu all over again …
Yes, after the death of Sasanka, sociopolitical construct of Bengal (from late 7th to early 8th century AD) was in chaos. Harshavardhana of Kanauj- Sasanka’s perpetual nemesis took a big bite while the rest was wrested by Bhaskaravarman, king of Kamrup.
Without an overarching power (of Hobbs’ Leviathan), the petty chieftains were running amok. Rule of law vanished. Rich and powerful were preying on the poor and weak. Taranath, the astute Tibetan Monk coined the word ‘MATHSHANNYA (a moral parallel of large fish eating small fish)” to describe this state of total entropy. It was the six hundreds and early seven hundreds.
Now fast forward more than a millennium to first month of 2015; two unwise persons, driven largely by personal animosity for each other are the prime movers and their minions and the elites of the civil and arms-bearing outfits abetted by a self-serving genre of business-bureaucrat nexus is running amok and gobbling up the little fish,
I mean, the poor and the powerless … its déjà vu all over again …
But wait – out of ruins and melee came Goplala – the first elected king of Bengal.
