Bangladesh in Bondage: Tarique Rahman, SQC, LB, and Other Essays

Foreword
Preface and Introduction
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1 Islam, Politics, and Human Rights in Bangladesh: A Call for All Opposition Forces to Confront the Awami Dictatorship
	Introduction
	Awami Carnival of Both Bottomless and Topless Corruption and All-Out Fascist Control and Coercion Competing and Conspiring to Go Ahead of Each Other, Not Just Together
	Fake, Corruption-Ridden Cosmetic Development, Gluttonously Glittering at Only a Few Selected Places, Hardly Golden Anywhere
	Grave and Gross Human Rights Abuses
	Like Trump, Like Hasina: An Analogy
	Media Clipped, Controlled, Curtailed
	Suppression of Islam and Muslims
	Pro-Hindu and Anti-Muslim Awami Secularism (ধর্ম নিরপেক্ষতা/ধর্মহীনতা) Sucks! Indian Cultural Aggression Sucks!
	Conclusion
Chapter 2 Obscenity of Awami Personality Cult
Chapter 3 Bangladesh’s War Dead: Controversy Over the Casualty Numbers
Chapter 4 Clemency and Compassion, Or Cruel Otherization?—Who Said What in Reaction to Captain Mazed’s Execution
Chapter 5 Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury: Remembering a Fascinating Political Personality Five Years After His Execution
Chapter 6 Comments On the Much Maligned Lutfozzaman Babar
Chapter 7 Context Bangladesh: Democratic, or Nationalist, or Both?
Chapter 8 On the BNP and Its Urgent Need to Confront the Ongoing Awami Brutalities
Chapter 9 In Response to One’s Utopian Daydream About Bangladesh
Chapter 10 On Certain Betrayals to the BNP
Chapter 11 Tarique Rahman: A Man Still to Be Cast and Carved in His Own Symmetry to Lead—Both a Critique and a Guarded Praise of Him and His Party
Chapter 12 Conclusion
Index