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Bangladesh is now divided as "our" country and "their" country. This division has been solely created by the critically close to authoritarian and exclusionary Awami regime-belligerent and BNPhobic. This book is a detailed account of the divided Bangladesh, where there has been a near-total suppression and extermination (since 2009) of the political opposition, BNP. It is a recount of the horror and terror resorted to by the regime addicted to governing the country through a process of complete politicization and criminalization of all the branches of the state.
Being a descriptive narrative of the regime's abuses of state tools and agents, the volume launches a crusade against the nearly autocratic and despotic one-party government, boastfully bragging about its denial of moral, political, and economic corruption and its obstruction of the democratic rights of the opposition.
List of contents
Notice to the Reader and Putting the Bartlebys on Notice - A Conch Preface: Why the Book, Why the Title -Acknowledgments - Introduction: Primary, Preliminary, and After - Democracy and Development: Development With Corruption and Without Democracy - The Role of the Police and the RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) in the "Development Sans Democracy" Conversation and the Gopal/Gopali Parrots and Predators in the Police - Politics Bangladesh Style: All Sick and Rotten to the Core - Bangladesh: A Trial Separation or a Complete Divorce in a Broken or Near-Broken Family? - The Chiefs and Their Uddinization of the 2006-2008 Caretaker Government - From the Opposition's (Wishy-Washy Dalliance) to the Position's (Red Light District): In Defense of the Three (Former) Female Opposition Parliament Members, the PAR ( /DeshKonnya Ashrafi Papia, Shammi Akhter, and Rehana Ranu) - Let's Follow the Example of Mujib's Clemency and Compassion and Not Set One of Cruel Otherization - The Quagmire of Partisan Politics Over the Dead: Controversies Over the Image and Status of Mujib and Zia - The Politics of the Past and the Honorifics of Titles - Bangladeshi Nationalism: A Cause and Concept Right and Just - Secularism in Bangladesh: Questions of Politicocultural and Religious Conflict - Taslima Nasreen: An Ultra-Feminist of Politicocultural and Religious Divide - When Bangladesh Is Divided Over Its National Anthem "Amar Sonar Bangla" (A Tagore Song): A Politico-Literary Perspective - Conclusion (Parts A and B) - Afterword.
About the author
Q M Jalal Khan is a professor of English teaching in the Arabian Gulf. He has a (Fulbright) MA from American University in Washington, D.C., and a PhD from New York University. The author of numerous articles and books, Dr. Khan¿ever mindful of whatever concerns Bangladesh¿is settled in and maintains permanent ties to North America. Under preparation by Dr. Khan is a slim postscript volume further detailing the absence of social justice and the rule of law in the one-party police and prison state under the fascistic Awami regime and its Indianization of Bangladesh.
Summary
This book is a detailed account of the divided Bangladesh where there has been a near-total suppression and extermination, since 2009, of the political opposition BNP.
Report
"Q M Jalal Khan made a serious intellectual effort to uncover the truth and justice behind Bangladesh being ruled by a brutal regime. Although politically sensitive (as it contests the current regime widely known for trampling democracy and for massive human rights abuse), Khan's work is a phenomenal contribution and hence is likely to have a wide marketability." -Md Saidul Islam, Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
