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On the Road to Freedom

When Bangladesh freed itself from the clutches of the Pakistani ruling class 40 years ago, it promised to establish a society based on democracy and social justice. The call to bring about socialism and the economic emancipation of the masses was in the air. Democracy we have established, but its principles have remained merely on paper and with the birth of a perverted form of capitalism, the gulf between the rich and the poor is widening every day. How far away are we from the promised Golden Bengal, which thousands of martyrs of our Liberation War only dreamt of but could not achieve?

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Manan Morshed

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