Mohit Ul Alam

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Mohit Ul Alam is a Professor of English literature. He’s also a member of the editorial board of the Bangla Journal. His publications include Nigor (1991); Sahityapath: Totto O Talash (2022).

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The Tragic Death of Bangabandhu: Analyzed through a Shakespearean Trajectory

“How many ages hence / Shall this our scene be acted over / In states unborn and accents yet unknown?” (3.1.111-13) Cassius in Julius Caesar This is quite a challenging topic I have willfully chosen to explore. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the architect of the country Bangladesh, adorably called Bangabandhu, was cruelly murdered in his own house along with his wife, three sons, two daughters-in-law, and a younger brother in the early hours of August 15, 1975. It was a small contingent of some junior to middle-ranking disgruntled army officers who masterminded the offensive at the execution level. Along with Bangabandhu’s house at 677 Dhanmondi, Road Number 32, they also separated into groups and attacked two more houses in the same hours to kill Bangabandhu’s close relatives, Abdur Rab Serniabat, who was Bangabandhu’s own sister’s husband and a minister at the time, living on Minto Road, and Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni, Bangabandhus’s other sister’s son along with his pregnant wife, who was a Dhanmondi resident. In total 20 people were killed in those three houses. This macabre happening was an outcome of a deep-set conspiracy plot led by one of Bangabandhu’s close allies and long-time party leader, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, with tacit support from the then Deputy Chief of Staff, Major General Ziaur Rahman.

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Tagore and Shakespeare: A Comparative Study of their Views of Daughters as Reflected in their Works

In this study, I want to show that the greatest Bangali writer and the greatest English writer had one concern in common as fathers—how to marry their daughters to suitable bridegrooms. This anxiety of the daughters’ fathers is counterpoised by the greed for dowry among the young men seeking a rich father-in-law.

Appears in 240313174231 (2023) Read Article →