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PLEASURE IS ALL MINE

Shah Husain Imam

PLEASURE IS ALL MINE

Columnist, The Daily Star

An album on the poet of politics

Commemorating Bangabandhu's Birth Anniversary / An album on the poet of politics

16 March 2019, 18:00 PM
My first impression of Bangabandhu dates back to around the mid-sixties. A helicopter service had been in operation between Dhaka
16 March 2019, 18:00 PM
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An avoidable mayhem

14 February 2019, 18:00 PM
Last Tuesday, from the northerly Himalayas, a blustery wind cascaded down to Haripur area of Thakurgaon leaving a patch of ruins in
14 February 2019, 18:00 PM
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Uprooting corruption: We can do better

31 January 2019, 18:00 PM
The seasonal discussion on corruption is back in full swing following the release of Berlin-based Transparency International's global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), 2018.
31 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Which way is pluralistic democracy headed?

17 January 2019, 18:00 PM
We have known democratic pluralism, pluralistic democracy and multi-party system to be synonymous terminologies. But is it as simplistic as that? Conceptually and ideally, it is; but in practice and real-world situations, it may not be so!
17 January 2019, 18:00 PM
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Change of style or substance?

10 January 2019, 18:00 PM
With at least 27 new faces and only a few septuagenarians around, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was greeted on her re-election to a record fourth term at Gono Bhaban on Tuesday.
10 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Sheikh Hasina's fourth term

Sheikh Hasina's fourth term

3 January 2019, 18:00 PM
It is the huge gaps in the numbers of votes polled by the winners and the losers in the 11th national election that apparently unveiled a “controlled and patterned” nature of the process of polls.
3 January 2019, 18:00 PM
Election 2018

Wintry mist from a non-level playing field!

27 December 2018, 18:00 PM
If almost every past election in Bangladesh had been a test case for democracy, the one the nation is going to in two days' time is a veritable litmus test for the country's democratic future.
27 December 2018, 18:00 PM
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Nomination cauldron bubbling away, electioneering heat awaited

6 December 2018, 18:00 PM
It was for the BNP leaders “a strategy” of filing multiple sets of nomination papers to cover the contingency of rejections. This came in the way of 141 party nominees out of 696 who had applied to the EC for a go-ahead.
6 December 2018, 18:00 PM
Cricket

An entertaining critique on our T-20 campaign

Given the high passion aroused by India-Pakistan matches, one might have expected a slice of that rivalry to radiate through some kind of a cheer for Bangladesh struggling through an uphill chase of a big Pakistani total. Again that was not to be!
31 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Reflections on March 1971

Usually, the first hudred days of parliamentary election
24 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Gambling with the sweat of our workers' brow!

We are doing a postmortem on the sensational cyber crime that has depleted us of Tk 800 crore in foreign exchange from the reserve
17 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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A classy win at a height and more

The early success should act as tonic for the Bangladesh team which they need, especially in the nippy weather of Dharmashala to face Ireland, a good team, and Oman which has defeated the former in a two-run stunner.
10 March 2016, 18:00 PM
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Hail the Midas touch on national cricket!

Bangladesh's jinx over the highly popular T-20 format cricket has disappeared in a flash as if in a comic strip to put it picturesquely.
3 March 2016, 18:00 PM
Indian victory

Indian victory largely scripted by luck

The backdrop was dramatic, full of expectancy for the growing numbers of cricket-lovers in the country – almost to a last man...
25 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Truth making itself felt

The beehive mentality of surpassing each other in ingratiating themselves with the higher ups, if not checked, may hold the system to ransom.
18 February 2016, 18:00 PM

Passports ranking, IS' mapping and us

The up-scaling of the passport is indicative of the country's potentiality as a vibrant investment destination. We must build up on the image, and not allow it to be chipped away by any indiscretion whatsoever...
11 February 2016, 18:00 PM
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From the crossroads to the highway

When I joined The Daily Star in mid-December 1993, a few months after the sudden and sad demise of the Founding Editor S. M. Ali, I was struck by the organisation's attention to detail and the starry-eyed philosophy behind it.
4 February 2016, 18:00 PM
Migrants

From the frying pan to the fire?

If the last two centuries were of inconclusive and asymmetrical globalisation, the present one deserves to be called the century of migration.
28 January 2016, 18:00 PM
Jatiya Party

Ershad, still an unspent political force

Whatever may be his infamy, flippancy and punching above his weight in the eye of his critics, H. M. Ershad hardly seems ready for his swan song.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Sloshing oil, slapping bouts, our interests

While maxi-oil wars are playing out in the Middle East and North Africa we have our mini version of an oil battle to be won at home.
7 January 2016, 18:00 PM
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Embargo, Islamophobia and neo-fascist retreat

Abolt from the blue has hit Bangladesh as if we didn't have a plateful on our hands already: SMS threats to some Christian bishops as
24 December 2015, 18:00 PM
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Help is around the corner, court it and benefit

There's a sigh of relief breezing through the country's 18 million internet users over the unblocking of the social media sites the
17 December 2015, 18:00 PM

Missiles, politics and cascading effects

If there is a generic confusion at the top in terms of decision-making to fight fundamentalism of all hues and stripes this will have a cascading effect on to the bottom.
3 December 2015, 18:00 PM
Vote

Mini national polls, mighty excitement in store

The schedules for polls to the 234 municipalities are upon us, as if tip-toeing on a slippery wicket to a sudden grand curtain raiser about to happen.
26 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Who's taking the brunt of the backlash?

The IS nicknamed Daesh, an Arabic word meaning a group of bigots imposing their will on others not only killed innocents but also put majority of Muslims on the harm's way by giving Islam a bad name.
19 November 2015, 18:00 PM

The answer is with us

Frankly, who is not mentally carrying a travel advisory of his or her own seems to be the question today.
5 November 2015, 18:00 PM
Dark Cloud

Arguments you cannot brush aside

The operative words are extremism and terrorism; so what's in a name, terrorism is terrorism. The threats have always been there and to be fair to ourselves some of the major terrorist acts have not seen handing out of convictions to the perpetrators.
29 October 2015, 18:00 PM

LET THERE BE LIGHT

The see-saw between the government of Bangladesh and the Western diplomatic community over threats to foreigners' lives shows no sign of remission...
22 October 2015, 18:00 PM

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