Naming names II on May 24, 2011Enter Nurul Amin. This unscrupulous character, born on July 15, 1893 in the village of Shahbazpur in what was then Brahmanbaria District in the Bengal Presidency of the British colony of India, followed an upward path in his political career much like that of our unsung hero, Joginder Nath Mandal — all the way up […]
The long journey backwards on May 3, 2011The cowardly assassination of Pakistan’s federal minister for minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, in Islamabad on March 2 has taken one’s thoughts back to the tumultuous times of the country’s creation more than 63 years ago. More precisely, to the time and circumstances that forced Pakistan’s first minister of law and labour, Jogendra Nath Mandal, to part […]