Drishtipat Blog

Welcome to the newest Bangla blogging platform Muktangon.  The Bangla blogging space is a fast growning area and Muktangon brings in fresh ideas and we wish it all the best.  Here are a few words from the organizers on the motive behind creating this blog.

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“Muktangon” (www.nirmaaan.com/blog) is the Bangla blogging platform of “Nirman” (www.nirmaaan.com), an online magazine on art, literature, culture and society. The blog is launched ahead of Nirman (under construction).

After the so-called “1/11″, the whole country felt trapped and confused as the walls of militarisation were quickly closing in. Emergency Rules crept into the public sphere stifling the very spirit of democracy. It was an environment like this that inspired launching Muktangon as a blogging platform. Most of our bloggers are relatively new in the blogsphere but many of them have considerable track record in political and human rights activism. Although none of us is party-political in the conventional sense, many of our members are direct products of Anti-Ershad movement (of the 80s) and anti-Jamat-Shibir movement (of the 90s). Together we aspire to create a serious and clean discussion space, and to share the values many of us once thought so important. We want to seek each other out through this blog who we believe also share the same values, and reach out to others who do not. We want to engage with our relatively younger Generation Y members in this depoliticising climate who are increasingly becoming so fashionably apolitical (for good reasons, perhaps).
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In Bangladesh general peoples’ disgust over corruption can’t be over emphasized. The collective anger, hatred and the plea for a relief is enormous. It is clear that, even in the short term, people are ready for any sort of sacrifice, like giving up their fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of meeting, politics etc, if that helps routing out corruption from the society. In this context, it is not very surprising that this current government has enjoyed an overwhelming public support despite many drastic measures.

It is also not a meticulously hidden secret that General Moeen U Ahmed is the de facto ruler of the country although he maintains that he is merely the army chief under civilian leadership. Let me give some example why I say so. Example 1. Remember the camera front outburst of estranged Magistrate Rokonuddoula? He was saying that he visited General Moeen three times regarding the separation of judiciary issue and Gen Moeen rebuffed the demand to halt stripping administrative magistrates of judicial power. Why a leading administrative magistrate will go to army chief for such a purely non military issue and how the general will give decision in that regard? In Example 2, General Moeen has been repeatedly making statements about election date. In an ideal civil government, the army chief will only be there to help out the civil administration during election time. When or whether election will be held or not, that is purely the decision of the civil cabinet and the election commission.
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