Nationalism issue
We congratulate Dr Anwar Hossain for having the Ekushey Podak this year. I thank him especially for bringing up a very important and interesting topic in Aajker Sangbadpatra episode moderated by Mr. Motiur Rahman Choudhury.
He has very correctly mentioned about "unmesh" of Jatiyatabad during pre-independence period of India followed by Pakistan and finally by Bangladesh. He has mentioned about language based Jatiyotabad and religion based Jatiyotabad. He has very rightly pointed out that Bangladesh was born on the basis of language based Jatiyotabad ;whereas Pakistan was born out of religion based Jatiyatabad.
The above analogy about "Jatiyabad" by Dr Anwar has a very significant impact on our social, political and cultural arena. In fact our two main stream political parties are following the path of "Jatiyatabad" on those two concepts. Bangladesh was born on the language based "Jatiyatabad", which ironically changed to religion based “Jatiyatabad” after august 15, 1975.
Now the question is: How to resolve this deep and big ideological difference between the two mainstream political parties?
The religion based “Jatiyatabad” will never ever agree to embrace the ideology of birth of Bangladesh. How to solve the issue ?
A big question before the new generation and new generation politicians. Will they follow politics of religion or follow the universal liberal democracy where religion is absolutely an individual property.
Thanks again to Dr Anwar Hossain and Mr. Motiur Rahman Choudhury for presenting such a thought provoking segment on "Amar Ekushey Prothom Prohorey". We learned and enjoyed this segment sitting thousands of miles away from our motherland.
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