Mushfique Wadud and Ariful Islam Mithu reveal the need for reforms in the qoumi madrassah education system, which still follows a curriculum from the Mughal period
photo by Al-Emrun Garjon
Yusuf was not born in a well to do family. His father always struggled to provide for and manage their big family, and so when it was time to send Yusuf to school; he was sent to a qoumi madrassah, where his father hardly had to pay anything. Read more at http://www.newagebd.com/2009/may/08/may08/xtra_inner3.html
Mushfique Wadud, Khamin and Mohiuddin Alamgir list the various illegal businesses that make student politics so dear to the average student
photos by Al-Emrun Garjon
Riaz Uddin always dreamt of making his son a doctor. So when his son, Abul Kalam Asad Rajib came tenth on the SSC examinations merit list, he considered it the first step in the fulfilment of his dream. Rajib, second of Riaz’s three sons, soon got admitted to Dhaka Medical College. Everything was going according to plan and Riaz only had to wait a few years to become ‘a doctor’s father’.
But soon Rajib became involved in student politics during the early years of his medical college life. He was made general secretary of the Bangladesh Chhatra League in the DMC unit. This year, Rajib was killed in a factional clash of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, the ruling Awami League’s student front on March 31, 2009, ending the life of a brilliant student and shattering Riaz’s dreams.
Mushfique Wadud and Khamin reveal the gross irregularities and nepotism that revolve around the second-largest NGO in the country, Proshika and Qazi Faruque, its controversial chairman
photo by Prito Reza
Abul Kashem Palash, the acting director of Proshika Manobik Unnayan Kendra, was arrested by the law enforcement authorities just after the declaration of the state of emergency in the country on January 11, 2007 for being involved in anti-social activities during the pre-election violence from October to December 2006 as well as in the Awami League leader Abdul Jalil’s infamous ‘trump card’ deadline. Read more at
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