Setara bibi under the lamp post - Literature - observerbd.com : The glittering city aroundLife is rich with red, blue light of neonWide sky over the headPieces of moonlight, scatteredAnd in that splashed pieces of meteorThose are taken by the scientists of NASASo height the civilization reachesThis city is the flow of happiness nowSome men like us pass the wayWith frustration
In
Bangladesh,
the concept of Bangladeshi Nationalism was established against the concept of
Bangalee nationalism. But this was not all about our nationalism. In the
subcontinent the Bengal was the vital place
where the root of nationalism engraved by the revolutionary activists during
the period of 1905 to 1910. Though the concept of nationalism was arisen both
in the minds of moderate politicians and revolutionary activists during the
same period it was true that the revolutionary activists were successful to
show it as a matter of fact. Revolutionary activists, especially Aurobindoo
Ghosh, considered it as a religion. But his religion did not mean so called
religion. Actually, it was nothing but a principal for him which acts like a
religion in human life.
In
Bangladesh,
the concept of nationalism, Bangalee or Bangladeshi, whatever it is, highly
interacted with the concept of religion. For Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founder
of Bangladesh,
secularism is the key factor of his Bangalee nationalism and according to his
view; secularism is not the state of absence of religion. It means no one will
use religion as a political weapon. It is quite different from the basic
western idea of secularism where secularism means the separation of politics
from the church and that is why the term secular was derived from the term
“saeculum”.
But
for Zia’s Bangladeshi nationalism, it was the complex composition of secularism
and religious concept. Zia did not declare Bangladesh as an Islamic country
but Islam as a religion got a priority over all the religions and he introduced
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim at the beginning of the constitution.
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