Editor's Note
We have the pleasure of welcoming you to the special series of supplements beginning today to mark the 22nd birth anniversary of The Daily Star.
The special series is being launched into the first quarter of what practically is an election year, scheduled for January 2014. Although we are going through a stormy prelude and the year looks poised to be eventful in a very special way, we are hopeful that the political parties will be able to settle down to an election mode in not-too-distant a future. Good sense has to prevail if we are to pave the way for well-participated free and fair elections.
The five supplements to appear consecutively from the 17th to 21st, March are coming under titles Coming Elections; Political Culture and Governance; The State of the Economy; Infrastructure, Food Security and Climate Change; and Enterprise, Education, Foreign Policy and Connectivity, respectively. These will comprise 240-page four-colour well-illustrated series with supplements each consisting of 48 pages.
Eminent academics, researchers, planners, experts, professional practitioners in diverse fields, and above all, men and women of vision have enriched the supplements with their carefully crafted articles. We are grateful to them for enabling us to put together a large body of texts of considerable depth, dimension and vision.
Their analyses, incisive comments and recommendations on different issues of national life at this juncture will provide, we hope, valuable inputs for informed decision-making and valued judgments.
We have words for those but for whom we would not be where we are today. We remember with gratitude the leading lights like S.M. Ali, our founder Editor, Azimur Rahman, founding Chairman, A.S. Mahmud, founding Managing Director, Media World and founding Managing Editor Taufique Aziz Khan.
It has been one long chronicle of progressive ascent through unfailing teamwork, committed leadership, purposeful journalism and the Board's enlightened approach to editorial independence. We promise much more in content, quality and technology as we move along.
A word of praise for my colleagues, the Team Daily Star but for whose relentless work, untiring zeal and commitment to independent and fair journalism we would not have reached the niche we have.
Let me end on a note of acknowledgement to our readers, patrons and advertisers, but for whose support this paper would not have become what it is today.
Editor & Publisher