Attack on Taposh : Forcing the Issue to Go Elsewhere?

The recent attack on the young ruling party lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh MP was not the first among deadly forays over politicians of Bangladesh. A common phrase in our country goes like, “where the murderers of Bangabandhu & Ziaur Rahman are never held, there will be no surprise if other high profile murders are let getaway.” Even after the unparallel massacre inside Bangladesh Riffles HQ at Pilkhana, Dhaka, many told that “the murderers here too will getaway and we won’t mind because we’ve seen trials on murders of Sheikh Mujib and Ziaur Rahman unsolved and it doesn’t matter whether we do mind or else”.

Confusions are being created that why the ministers are extensively making statements to relate the carnage with Bangabandhu assassination trial.

Nobody has anything to deny the fact that most of the legal fights for assassinations or attempts on high profile statesperson have not been properly conclusive just because the government at office has tried to politically utilize the issues, has ignored unhealthy diversion of investigation for sake of discomforting domestic political rivals. This is a tragic fact that’s applicable for almost all trials of the kind.

General population often gets annoyed at the common obsession that our politicians have of debating past sour issues. Here some sentences about past have been written just to amplify the fact that, may be a powerful bomb flew toward a member of the house all of a sudden shook the nation, but it won’t be a surprise if his legal fight too is found to have the same fate of being on pursuit of a zero.

Fazle Noor Taposh MP, although a very young lawmaker and is in quite an early stage of his expectedly brighter political future, has been put on the top of the current political focus by the attempt and it has rang to the minds of us that indeed Fazle Noor Taposh is stringed fervently to various high profile political concerns. He is,

• a notable panel lawyer in the trial on Bangabandhu’s assassination,
• a figure related to the controversy of government’s unpopular dialogue attempt with BDR mutineers at the late night of 25 February, 2009,
• an anticipated select by Sheikh Hasina to fight the upcoming mayoral elections in Dhaka for Awami League,
• and again a very close aide to Sheikh Hasina, almost the most trusted one having a political future brighter than almost anyone of his stage.

These are few positions we consider when we think about how Fazle Noor Taposh MP has been politically being since his appearance to acclaim.

Now let also have a serial of what the senior figures in the ruling party or the government have been saying over the matter.

• Advocate Sahara Khatun, the Minister of Interior who already has seen the wrath of few AL leaders for possible security negligence, told “Taposh attack is ‘linked’ to Mujib killer”.

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• Syed Ashraful Islam, General Secretary of Awami League and Minister of LGRD & Cooperatives, told “the nation believes the killers of Bangabandhu, the extreme communal and anti-liberation forces were involved with the attack”.

• Barrister Mahbubey Alam, the Attorney General and leader of a pro-AL lawyers’ group, told “The attack on Taposh proves that those who do not want the trial of the murder of Bangabandhu are trying to become active.”

• Barrister Shafique Ahmed, the Minister of Law, told “Taposh attack aimed to save Mujib’s killers”

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• Dr. Dipu Moni, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, told “The attack was made by those who don’t want progress in trial of Bangabandhu’s murder”.

I don’t understand that why these senior AL leaders and others are pushing the matter to be a concern of Bangabandhu assassination trial. I mean it can be a fact that those who don’t want the trial being conclusive orchestrated the attack. But this is just a possibility, a speculation; so are the others that attack on Taposh could be a knock-off attempt by his domestic or broader political rivals.

One of several arrested people is Karmul Haque Shwapon, brother of Maj. Dalim, also a 5-years long neighbor of Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh MP. We expect the arrest to be a part of true investigation, not by a provocation of some minister's supra-enthusiasm to relate the case with Bangabandhu's trial. (Photo: BDNews24)

There has been a complaint made to police and they will investigate it, they will have to do it to dig for the truth. At this stage of investigation where nobody knows more than it was a bomb, the series of statements from AL leaders is just looking like a planned media manipulation where the immense influences are being made to manipulate public opinions. Questions may arise that how the ministers and the Attorney General are so confident that the attackers are linked to Bangabandhu’s assassins. Did the attackers tell them before bombing? Or did Bangabandhu’s assassins confirm that the new generation carnage will take place on Taposh?

This is highly concerning that why respective AL leaders and also the party’s Central Working Committee in absence of Sheikh Hasina is pressurizing the people to believe the attack having a link to Bangabandhu’s trial. What’s their source of confidence, what’s their source of information and finally what’s the motive of such premature statements? There are other grounds those have to be considered, why we have not heard a single person anywhere to talk about that?

Bangladeshi people have already learnt that they have a legal system that is not blind. This system can smell one’s political identity, can see the height of one’s political influence and finally can realize one’s power. The system drives itself in accordance with those feelings that a legal system is immensely malicious to have. Forgoing the attackers of a Member of Parliament won’t be a surprise because murderers of the Presidents and Prime Ministers in this country are let getaway.

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Tribute : The Bangladeshis Killed in 9/11

Clockwise: Mohammed Salahuddin Chowdhury, Mohammad Shahjahan, Nurul Haque Miah, Abul Kashem Chowdhury, Shakila Yasmin and Shabbir Ahmed.

Immediately after the horrible 9/11 attacks, the perception about Bangladeshi fatalities was that at least 50 of our countrymen have been missing in the rubles, dead or else. Watching the twin towers of the World Trade Center emitting smokes almost like two sky-scrapping chimneys, initially very few people overseas were concerned about knowing how much people of what nationalities have been victims, apart from those who knowingly had family members, coworkers or friends working in New York’s Lower Manhattan that day.

People of approximately 60 nationalities were among the victims. The initial perception of around 50 Bangladeshis killed was later corrected as there were 12 Bangladeshi victims documented. Now this information too ain’t assuring as there were talks that there could be some Bangladeshis working around but ‘not documented’, might have been in terms of legal measures. This means disappointment, that the actual number of how many Bangladeshis were killed in 11 September 2001 attacks won’t be known ever.

For someone looking for stuffs about the Bangladeshi victims of 9/11, the initial disgust will be offered by the authority of Bangladesh, that’s our government. Throughout a staggering hunt for information about brothers & sisters we lost that day, one will completely fail to get something that can be thought is given or provided by any agencies or departments of Bangladesh government. It’s understandable that during the attack the administration at home was to execute a general election of nearly 70 million voters, so it couldn’t respond at once. But not only years passed rather it’s being almost a decade after a number of Bangladeshi deaths overseas, we rarely found any of our government people to pronounce a word about it or to provide at least some statistics. It can be that we ain’t keen enough to get them so they ain’t keen enough to provide.

Among 12 confirmed Bangladeshis who were killed on September 11, 2001 there are Mohammad Sadeque Ali, Shabbir Ahmed, Nurul Haque Miah, Nurul’s wife Shakila Yasmin, Mohammad Shahjahan, Mohammed Salahuddin Chowdhury, Abul Kashem Chowdhury, Navid Hossain, Osman Ghani and Ashfaq Ahmed. As the Bangladesh High Commission at United States has a confirmation of 12 victims, definitely there are two more names those I’ve failed to mention here. However all the mentioned 10 were the citizens of United States of America and except Ashfaq Ahmed, Navid Hossain & Osman Ghani, I can provide at least something about seven others.

Mohammad Sadeque Ali

Mohammad Sadeque Ali, 62, according to a former Bangladeshi diplomat Syed Muazzem Ali, was a newspaper vendor. He lived in New York’s Jackson Heights with his wife Mumtaz. During the attack Ali was at Lower Manhattan presumably somewhere too-close-to or inside the World Trade Center and was later never found.

Shabbir Ahmed

Shabbir Ahmed

Shabbir Ahmed, 47, worked in the famous ‘Windows on The World’ restaurant on the 106th floor of the WTC North Tower. Migrated to US from Bangladesh in 1981, he loved the job he had in ‘Windows on The World’ and he stayed there for 11 years. Ahmed was married to Jeba and the couple had three children. Ahmed became able to meet his dream of sending all of them for college education. At the time of Ahmed’s death, a son named Tanvir was 16-year old and a daughter that went to Brooklyn College were 19-year old. The family’s home is at Marine Park, Brooklyn, New York. At the time a plane penetrated the tower, Ahmed was at work in his beloved workplace with 89 other coworkers including Mohammed Salahuddin Chowdhury, another Bangladeshi employee in there, reportedly were serving 76 guests; none of the people survived.

Mohammad Shahjahan

Mohammad Shahjahan

Mohammad Shahjahan, 41, lived with his wife Mansura at Spring Valley, a neighborhood at the border of towns Ramapo and Clarkstown at Rockland County, New York. He was a Computer Administrator in the professional service provider & insurance brokerage farm Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC)., which held offices between floors 93 & 100, the ultimate impact zone of the attack. 295 employees including Shahjahan and two other Bangladeshis, Nurul Haque Miah & Shakila Yasmin, were working at MMC at the time of attack; among them nobody survived.

Abul Kashem Chowdhury

Abul Kashem Chowdhury

Abul Kashem Chowdhury, 30, was 2nd generation Bangladeshi-American, child of a former Bangladeshi diplomat. He resided in New York with his family of his wife, parents, a brother and two sisters. A College of Staten Island graduate, Chowdhury was about to pursue a career on computer expertise, which even he had one at financial services farm Cantor Fitzgerald L.P. as a Senior Assistant Analyst. His brother Abul Qaiser Chowdhury said that he and his brother worked to support their family; have been like two arms to their loved ones. During the attack Chowdhury was on the 103rd floor, who even called his brother after the plane made the hit and he was approaching to come down, but the communication was tragically brief and everything was finished in hours. Months before the attack Chowdhury got married to Young Kim, a 2nd generation Korean-American. Kim, remarking his husband as a ‘devoted moviegoer’, was about to go to movies with him after work on the fateful day.

Mohammed Salahuddin Chowdhury

Mohammad Salahuddin Chowdhury

Mohammed Salahuddin Chowdhury, 38, was a Queens, New York resident where he lived with his wife Baraheen Ashrafi. Salahuddin, a Dhaka University physics graduate, migrated to US in 1987. In US he studied real-estate and also obtained a diploma in Computer Science. Initially he worked in Baltimore but later came to New York for something better would come up. He decided to stay in New York in anyways so he started working in the famous ‘Windows on The World’ restaurant as a waiter. Salahuddin & Baraheen had a 6-year old boy. In the time of attacks Baraheen was pregnant and was due to operate at late hours of the fateful date. In fact Salahuddin usually attended the work in evening hours but that day chose to serve in the morning so that he could stay with his wife to the operation. Farqad Chowdhury, born 48-hours after deadly attack took away his father with 88 other coworkers, has been perhaps one of the first 9/11 orphans to be born. HBO’s 9/11 documentary “In Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01” has covered the tragic fate of Salahuddin’s family.

Nurul Haque Miah

Nurul Haque Miah

Nurul Haque Miah, 35, was born in Bangladesh to an immensely pious family in 1966. A mid-80s immigrant to US, Nurul started working for Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., (MMC) in 1986. In 1999 he married Shakila Yasmin; an early-90s immigrant whom he met in a friend’s wedding in 1995 & dated for 5 years. Nurul had a very good reputation at work & was awarded as recognition of merit in MMC. Nurul studied and had a degree in audiovisual technology, as the final position he had in MMC was an Audiovisual Technologist where he worked for 15 years. Nurul’s workplace was on the 93rd floor. But during the attack he was in a meeting on the 99th floor, while his wife Shakila, also an MMC employee, was on the 97th floor; MMC was a tenant holding 8 floors from 93rd to 100th. To mention, all these floors got the worst impact after the plane made hit especially the floors 93th-99th through where the plane actually penetrated, let as assume Nurul and his wife to be two of the very initial victims of the deadly attack.

Shakila Yasmin

Shakila Yasmin

Shakila Yasmin, 26, wife of Nurul Haque Miah, went to US with her parents Sharif A. Chowdhury and Shawkat Ara Sharif when she was 16. She did her S.S.C in Bangladesh and in US got admitted in Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. Obtaining US citizenship in the sixth year of stay, she graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1999 with a degree of Management Information Systems. As told before, she was married to Nurul Haque Miah in 1999, joined her husband’s workplace MMC as a Computer Assistant one year prior to the deadly attack. She was on the 93rd floor when the first plane penetrated the building.

Renaming Brooklyn Streets after Shakila and Nurul

Shakila Yasmin and Nurul Haque Miah

Nurul and Shakila lived in Brooklyn, New York and they had a very good relationship with the neighbors. One of their neighbors Diane Hunt, touched by her neighbors’ tragic deaths, took an initiative to propose renaming of the street in Brooklyn in names of Shakila and Nurul, took the matter to the city council. At her proposition and consent from the fellow councilors, the Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg (world’s 8th richest man, the Republican politician who owns Bloomberg L.P) passed a bill 746-A on 29 December, 2005 that renamed a total 67 streets of New York, including the Evington Avenue and the Third Avenue in Brooklyn those got the new name “Shakila Yasmin & Nurul Haque Miah 9-11 Memorial Way”. Mayor Bloomberg, fellow New Yorker Hunt and others who consented in paying respect to our fallen countrymen are yet to receive gratitude officially from Bangladesh. You know we have a lot of real works to do than just go thanking people like recently dead Senator Ted Kennedy who was singled out in US Senate just for talking for Bangladesh in 1971, or the Jewish NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg who honored Bangladesh by naming streets whereas he could choose from people of 59 other nationalities.

When Media Turns to A Bad Weapon

Prothom Alo and Daily Star. I actually don’t blame myself while being highly skeptical about two most notable newspapers of our country, because they practically were correlated to my association with blogging in past. I remember the role that Prothom Alo and Daily Star played amid the 1/11 misrule in fact when I started active blogging, where I and many other bloggers can quite rightfully state based upon facts that they were becoming the engineers to establish the public support for the 1/11 regime which appeared to have been having ill-motives against Bangladesh. Whenever we had a confusion about what the then ‘Lord of the Rings’ Gen. Moeen U. Ahmed were trying to say or do, we were used to read Prothom Alo or Daily Star editorials or others’ write-ups inside them. In fact their articles or news reports at that time were written in such way that Gen. Moeen and his conmen were being quite well explained.

Prothom Alo and Daily Star, have been subjected to several controversies.

Prothom Alo and Daily Star claim themselves to have the highest circulation among those of their competitors, which I don’t deny. And considering them as two leading newspapers of Bangladesh, they have so far faced handful of allegations which I believe no other leading newspaper in Bangladesh did and in most of the countries are too much rare to face. The series of allegations include with, being weapons to knock down their owner’s business rivals, being an unofficial media body to provide subsequent explications of an undemocratic and unlawful government’s series of ill-motivated steps etc. Deeds they did to viciously support the undemocratic 1/11 government should be enough to completely discourage number of people who could have respect on them as honest journalists.

The Gulshan Avenue house which was raided by perpetrators with sign-board saying “Owner of This Land is ATN Bangla – এই জমি ক্রয়সূত্রে মালিক এটিএন বাংলা”

What Salman F. Rahman today has told, I consider it to be his right to defend himself if someone throws dirt to him. We remember that after the unlawful grab attempt of a Gulshan Avenue residential building by group of people claiming themselves to be conmen of Mahfuzur Rahman holding a signboard which says “This Property Belongs to ATN Bangla”, Salman F. Rahman being a relative to the actual owner of the building got involved in the case to support his family member, and that was the beginning of a series of ATN Bangla reports against both Salman F. Rahman and BEXIMCO. As similar sort of allegations have come forward about Prothom Alo and Daily Star for a number of times before, we cannot mark someone to be completely without logic if he says a same affair might have taken place between Salman F. Rahman and Prothom Alo & Daily Star. More importantly, according to Daily Star editor Mahfuz Anam’s claim that they are committed to present substantial news to their readers, Prothom Alo and Daily Star were supposed to carry out at least a follow-up of the Gulshan Avenue flap, which they eventually didn’t do. So Prothom Alo and Daily Star’s general claim having ‘social responsibilities’ eventually becomes arguable.

As a reader and subscriber of both Prothom Alo and Daily Star which I was two years back, I will strongly support if someone claims that Prothom Alo and Daily Star both have been a party to the previous 1/11 regime to help them build their public support, as Salman F. Rahman.

I just can put a shortlist of their assistances. Incidentally and now I feel it was most unfortunate that it were Prothom Alo and Daily Star who gave me the first details of the 1/11 coup d’état. However as the 1/11 regime accommodate some tasks in their plans those where necessary for the harmonious run of a state, distinctive parts of their plans can be marked as they were not completely malicious. These not-malicious plans are often chosen to state that “1/11 also did some good things”. These ‘good things’ were given good coverage by Prothom Alo and Daily Star which I don’t think to be disappointing, and to some extent I was not suspecting about their roles or any of its appeared-to-be-association with the 1/11 government till those moments. But after the 1/11 government was on its political plans like minus-1/2, gagging major parties, creating king’s factions in name of reformists, forcing media to filter presentations, torturing journalists, politicians, teachers, students etc., I attentively noticed that Prothom Alo and Daily Star were being at very effective assistance where number of stories were being made to help the government have a convinced group of people and an apparent public support to their position completely against the ongoing political system. Following this notice, my delivery boy was told that no Prothom Alo and Daily Star should be seen in my house any further. Yes, I subscribed both and I unsubscribed both.

A screenshot from Daily Star website. ATN Bangla and Daily Star seem to have collaboration.

Now, one can ask if I have made detached from two newspapers. Well I haven’t been detached. When any important issue takes place and becomes attention of the majority media, I become curious about what role Prothom Alo & Daily Star are playing and I get in touch with their online edition. In fact their apparent apathy on the grab attempt on that Gulshan Avenue residential building came by my eyes when I specially checked that what’ve been their remark about allegation on their partial media partner (as ATN Bangla and Daily Star works together online in some cases) ATN Bangla in that illegal operation.

Anyways, about the beginning of 1/11, their reports really gave me and most of their readers an idea that the 10 January late night at Bangabhaban was really a scene full of merriness where D. Iajuddin Ahmed laterally handed over the state-running scepter to hands of the then military chief Gen. Moeen U. Ahmed. In fact the book written by Gen. Moeen U. Ahmed almost echoed what was reported by those newspapers on January 11, 2007. These ‘truths’ started being differed after other officials of Bangabhaban who were present during the overthrow and who were notable ‘non-military’, started to open mouths. Claims of the then Press Secretary of the President hint that Bangabhaban that night was an exact stereotype of how a presidential palace becomes amid a coup d’état; military officials in every rooms, regular house officials with faces like they were looking at ghosts, raiding military officials threatening Bangabhaban officials, officials getting to the President with prepared papers and having them signed etc. As the topic Press Secretary has come, I must mention that Syed Fahim Munaim, who was chosen as the Press Secretary to Dr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, was a Daily Star official prior to his appointment to the Chief Advisor’s office.

For sake of better acceptability of the claims Salman F. Rahman has made, I will suggest that the matter should be taken to the court as soon as possible so that there can be set an exemplary judicial action against Prothom Alo and Daily Star, if Rahman’s claims are found evident.

Incidentally the political targets of the 1/11 regime have been interesting matches with Prothom Alo and Daily Star targets to be defamed with series reports, substantial or insubstantial. Now those newspapers can defend this that the matches have been coincidental or they were simply doing the duties of ideal journalists. But we, the people who read those (at least once have read) newspapers, have opportunities of their analysis and do know that there exists a term called ‘yellow journalism’, won’t like to be fed and satisfied with these fancy ‘social responsibility’ explanations. People will play with the facts. And the claim that Prothom Alo and Daily Star were party to the promotion of unconstitutional and unlawful regime does have facts to back.

At least this has to be appreciated that Salman F. Rahman stood vocal against Prothom Alo and Daily Star despite many of their targets simply had things forgone or dealt by other means. I will expect that the information that Rahman provided have been substantial. For sake of better acceptability of the claims Salman F. Rahman has made, I will suggest that the matter should be taken to the court as soon as possible so that there can be set an exemplary judicial action against Prothom Alo and Daily Star, if Rahman’s claims are found evident. I also wish courage to the honorable judges that before ensuring justice against the practice of any illegitimate journalism, they will overcome the uneasiness of possibilities that they also can become suitable targets of Prothom Alo and Daily Star.

“Lawrence of Arabia”

 

I have just finished watching “Lawrence of Arabia”, which has been made on T.E. Lawrence’s expedition to Arabia to unite fighting Arab clans & tribes for assaulting against Turkey during the World War I.

T.E. Lawrence was a Lieutenant of British Army in Middle East, who was buttoned to negotiate between conflicting clans. On behalf of Prince Faisal, Lieutenant Thomas Edward Lawrence started negotiation between Faisal’s loyal Sherif Ali & Auda Abu Taiyi. Finally Lawrence succeeded to unite two clans & invaded Turkish Army at port city of Aqaba & later Damascus with a joint troops of Ali & Taiyi. Lawrence’s approach to unite them later led these clans to argue for Arab independence under loyalty of Prnice Faisal after the fall of Damascus.

Legendary British film director, David Lean had added another milestone after his record of highest Academy Award winning film “The Bridge on The River Kawai“. T.E. Lawrence has been portrayed by Academy Award winner Peter O’Toole. The main supporting actor Omar Sharif has portrayed Sherif Ali. Ecstatic performance by its actors & brilliancy of David Lean has made this film a real piece to enjoy. Those who have not yet watched “Lawrence of Arabia”, you will never know what you have missed.

 

Awards

This film is a sacred name in Academy Awards Hall of Fame. “Lawrence of Arabia” had crushed into the Academy Awards arena in 1969, this had won 7 Academy Awards for 7 different grounds.

Academy Awards for Best Film by Sam Spiegel (Producer of Lawrence of Arabia)

Academy Awards for Best Director by David Lean

Academy Awards for Best Sound Engineer by John Cox

Academy Awards for Best Music by Maurice Jarre

Academy Awards for Best Art-director by John Box

Academy Awards for Best Cinematographer by Freddie Young

Academy Awards for Best Film-editor by Anne Vivian Coates

Not only that, Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif & its screen-play writer were nominated for the Academy Awards.

“Lawrence of Arabia” also won 4 BAFTA Awards (British Academy for Film & Television Arts) & 5 Golden Globe Awards.

 

 

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Peter O’Toole as Thomas Edward Lawrence

Omar Sharif as Sherif Ali

Alec Guiness as Prince Faisal

Jack Hawkins as General Allenby

Anthony Quinn as Auda Abu Taiyi

Anthony Quyale as Colonel Harry Brighton

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Hail Tauqir for ‘Daruchini Deep’

This was my first experience of watching a movie in Star Cineplex of Boshundhara City Shopping Complex. I totally agree that the thanks must go for Tauqir Ahmed, his ‘Daruchini Deep’ has made my first visit a glorious one. I must consider that, ‘Daruchini Deep’ is one of best Bangla films I have ever watched. Here I want to put a little note that, I believe in watching a movie for quiet many times [may be it sounds too much boring] which gives me the confidence to justify the movie. So, I have to wait until I buy the DVD of ‘Daruchini Deep’ as soon as it appears to stores. Appa (my sister), Jami Bhai (my bro-in-law), Bhabi, my cousines Tamal Bhaia, Emila, Tahnik, Maisha, Shadman, Shamik, Tanvi, Oyishik and my nephews Zaeen & Risat; total fourteen of us including me have enjoyed the movie. This was entirely sponsored by Jami Bhai as he took his beloved (damra) ’shala-shali’s to the movie.

This movie tells the story of 9 friends, who were preparing for a visit to Saint Martins Islands (fictionally featured as ‘Daruchini Deep’). But each of them was facing multiple familiar or, financial problems which were putting them into the tension that their dream to visit ‘Daruchini Deep’ is not going to come true. Many incidents have been featured by concerning Bangladeshi socio-economic reality. But finally the last minute of the movie made its viewers had a great relief when the dream of 9 friends was shown to be in the way of coming true, all of them managed to get into to the train to Chittagong, which apparently initiated their tour.

The movie is based on the popular novel ‘Daruchini Deep’, written by Humayun Ahmed. But it was the amazing brilliancy of Tauqir Ahmed who has shown this entire story keeping accordance to the reality, with a very realistic screenplay.

The most interesting thing was, Tauqir Ahmed also enjoyed the film with us with his family. His wife, another superstar and one of mentors of Bangladeshi modeling arena, Bipasha Hayat was present there too. After every funny scenes of the movie, I had a look on Tauqir Ahmed, who was just two rows behind from us. But Tauqir was never seen to laugh rather he was looking a little tensed. May be he was continuously scrutinizing what he did in the set. After the show ended, I didn’t forget to say thanks & congratulate Tauqir for excellent piece of work he did.

Each and every actors & actress have done amazingly well that sticked us into our seats all along. Momo, Riaz, Abul Hayat, Abdullah-Al-Mamun, Challenger, Bindu, Imon, Mosharraf and all of other artists deserve to be hailed. Specially Momo, I never expected this kind of stuff from a newcomer, she has done awesome. Go ahead Mom! Go ahead Tauqir!

Robin Left For UK

Robin, widely known among us as Potla has started for United Kingdom this morning (August 15). His Emirates flight was at BDT 1000HRS. He will be passing a transit period of 6 hours at Dubai & is expected to reach London’s Heathrow International Airport at BDT 0400HRS (GMT 2200HRS). Nayeem & I went his home at Priyo Prangon Apartments at Poribagh at 7:30AM to say goodbye. Robin has become the second of our friends to leave Bangladesh for higher education. Abid was first to leave to Australia.

Robin has got admitted in London Metropolitan University in Electronics & Communication University(ECE). He was with me at North South University ETE. Most hopefully Robin will take less than four years from now for completing the graduation.

Good Bye to My Fifth Semester at NSU

Finally my fifth semester at North South University has got waved good bye. Comparing to others, this semester has been a little tight, we don’t know why. My courses this semester, ETE341, ETE132, ETE283 & MAT240, fortunately or unfortunately I have got all of these courses at ST schedules, my luck!

In last classes, my fellow classmates (myself included unfortunately) have been found to cheer up a bit and laughing all along the “bidaye muhurto” instead of grabbing each other with tears. Such a thing to regret! I believe we should have dropped some tears at least as a showdown (I laughed more than others).

Bunch of photos have been taken on this last day and and for my fellow classmates, I have uploaded them here, in this site. You people can click here to get those pics at once.

Hell !! is Trishan Bhai crying or something ???

“…I’ll reason with him…” -Don Corleone

The book which is taking the total attention of mine right now is “The Godfather” written by Mario Puzo. I can’t remember myself reading a book with all along focus of mine like I am doing to “The Godfather” now. This is a real awesome book where Mario Puzo has put down all of his efforts to make it a real attraction to readers fond of thrillers. I have already done almost thesis on three parts of the movie “The Godfather” which has been made by Francis Ford Coppola & Mario Puzo. Now when I came to read the book, it feels me very familiar about the characters as I am not facing too much trouble during visualizing all of incidents in the book. The novel is simply far more precise than the movie as many incidents has been detailed in the novel where the movie shows just the incident. If you read the novel then you can justify that Coppola as well as Puzo should be rated top for their extraordinary casting skill. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, all of these actors have been very well synthesized and that’s why “The Godfather I,II,III” have been found the most entertaining and  as the best choice of many fans since 1974. Though the story tells about pre-war & post-war (World War II) mafia arena according to that time’s style, you will find many of characters of our present society and will realize that the world has not gone through a mass change. The underworld is as it was before.

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Marlon Brando as Vito Andolini Corleone “The Godfather”

Al Pacino as Michael Corleone

James Cann as Santino Corleone

Robert Duvall as Tom Hagen “The Consigliere“

Diane Keaton as Kay Adams 

Richard S. Castellano as Peter Clemenza

Al Lettieri as Virgil Solozzo“The Turk” 

Richard Bright as Al Neri

 Mario Puzo has been deeply inspired by the  Sicillian mafia arena especially Puzo got his instrumental inspiration for the novel “The Godfather” from the real life crime family of Vito Genovese, who was the most powerful underworld don among New Work crime families to his arrest in 1969, Puzo too published this novel in 1969. Many of elements of this book has been simulated to the testimony of Joe Valachi, who was a ‘button’ (or, member/soldier) of the Genovese crime family of New York in 1965. A character has also made in the novel according to Joe Valachi’s testification infront of the Senate. That character was Frank Pentangeli who was presented to the court by FBI to testify against Michael Corleone. In real life story, the entire Genovese family was hooked down after the testification of Valachi, but the novel shows Frank Pentangeli refused to testify against Michael Corelone and later committed suicide.

I just can make a comment for people who haven’t read “The Godfather” & haven’t watched the movie, that is, “you never know what you’ve missed”.

 Vito Genovese 

 

Big Bird in The Cage

A most common message which is sent to the headquarters after arresting any big shot, “big bird in the cage“.

Finally Sheikh Hasina has been arrested from her husband Shudha Mia’s residence at Dhanmnondi called “Shudha Bhaban”. Most probably there were four FIRs which could have Sheikh Hasina inside the jail, but this morning she has been taken to the CMM court because of an FIR at Tejgaon Police Station filed last month. Her lawyers Barrister Amirul Islam & Advocate Sahara Khatun has been rejected by the court while they appealed a bail for Sheikh Hasina.
Sheikh Hasina has been taken to a newly formed sub-jail inside the Parliament House Complex. Notably, this building was constructed in 2003-04 to be alloted as the governmential residence of the Deputy Speaker of the House.
Sheikh Hasina’s supporters, Awami League workers & pro Awami League lawyers have shown their anger in front of the court building. 14 RAB & Police jeeps made convoy with Sheikh Hasina’s NISSAN Patrol to the court. The total matter was highly cordoned by thousands of Police & RAB personnels. Awami League’s student wing Bangladesh Chhatro League is passing restless time by showing anger inside Dhaka University.

Apart from “reformantion” issues, Bangladeshi politics have got some new threads to be concerned about. But the thing is, those who have charges and FIRs, must be arrested. If somebody claims innocence, it should be evidently submitted in front of the court.

Finally Its Fixed

Finally xanthis has come to fix this site as his homepage. Being under confusion for a quite long time, xanthis has found the www.xanthis.wordpress.com as his homepage. Already there have been some uploading by xanthis mostly links & images to let you know about himself. Xanthis, that means myself, M Tawsif Salam is going to keep posting & uploading in this site. Other sites those have been constructed by xanthis, will be served too. Click here to see other sites by xanthis.

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