Mainstream Weekly

Why Minorities are under Attack in Bangladesh

Manas Ghosh — 2013-12-19T19:58:28Z

Ever since the partition of India, the minorities in Pakistan, especially in East Pakistan, had never been allowed to freely exercise their franchise during elections. Things did not change much after emergence of Bangladesh. Except in the 1973 and 2008 parlaimentary elections when they could cast their votes without fear or favour, minorities in Bangladesh have always been attacked by the Islamic parties so that they could not vote for secular parties like the Awami League or parties of the (…)

- 2013

Behind BNP-Jamaat's Onslaughts on the Shahbag Movement

Manas Ghosh — 2013-03-25T06:33:00Z

The euphoria that the Shahbag Square movement had generated all over Bangladesh over a month ago is clearly on the wane in the face of murderous onslaughts unleashed by the pro-Pakistani Islamists who have threatened to wage a civil war so as to bring down Sheikh Hasina's democratically elected government. Already Begum Khaleda Zia, leader of the pro-Pakistan Islamist alliance, is on record saying that her alliance's one-point programme was to wage an unceasing movement against the so-called (…)

- 2013

A Tragic Road Map

Manas Ghosh — 2008-10-25T00:58:57Z

The improper resettlement and rehabilitation package for 2500 agricultural households of Singur owning 164 hectares (400 acres) of rich multicrop land forcibly acquired by the Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Government for the Nano car project would surely lead to their loss of livelihood, starvation, morbidity, social and economic degradation, not to forget a high incidence of untimely deaths.
This is the substance of a fact-sheet prepared by D. Bandyopadhyay, West Bengal's former Land Reforms (…)

- October 18, 2008

Singur: How Buddha 'Implemented' Jyoti's Pledge

Manas Ghosh — 2008-09-03T19:13:22Z

When Jyoti Basu was sworn in as the Chief Minister of the first Left Front Government in West Bengal on June 21, 1977, one of the many “solemn pledges” that he and his senior Minister, Krishnapada Ghosh, made to the mammoth gathering that had assembled before Writers' Buildings, which spilled over to the neighbouring streets, was that his credo was that his Ministry would “never betray the interest of the State's small and marginal farmers and landless agricultural labourers”. He was candid (…)

- August 30, 2008

CPI-M's Sleight of Hand delays Justice for Victims of Massacre at Shuchpur

Manas Ghosh — 2008-05-28T18:17:47Z

For the past two years, the reign of terror unleashed by the Government of West Bengal and CPI-M in Singur and Nandigram has drawn headline attention through the length and breadth of the country. However, long before these events unfolded, surreptitious efforts were on to interfere with the course of justice in Suri court (the administrative headquarters of Birbhum district, West Bengal) by the State administration under the directives of the CPI-M, to save from punishment the perpetrators (…)

- May 24, 2008