Humiliation of Teacher

The fault in our star-gazing: Do we care about teachers?

The beating of the principal is symptomatic of a time when teachers have lost their “value” in the system.

Narail teacher's humiliation: 4 accused placed on remand

A local court today (July 3, 2022) granted three-day remand each for four accused in a case filed over humiliating the principal of Mirzapur United Degree College in Narail.

HUMILIATION OF A HEADMASTER / A symptom of the disease

How can freedom of speech flourish when sensitivities are so high, and public patience so low, when dissent is considered dangerous, any critique is considered to be a challenge, and all opposition is viewed as an existential threat that must be crushed? How credible are the preachy platitudes about democracy coming from people who are not its best exemplar?

STRANGER THAN FICTION / MP plays judge-jury-prosecutor!

An MP – who paradoxically represents the ruling coalition as well as its opposition in the parliament – recently played the proverbial role of the judge, jury and prosecutor.

CROSS TALK / A teacher has been taught his lesson!

Greek historian Herodotus, living in the fifth century, couldn't have known in advance that a headmaster was going to be humiliated in Narayanganj on the second Friday of May 2016.

Humiliation of teacher: Islamist group comes to MP's defence as protest continues across Bangladesh

Tehrik-e-Khatme Nabuwwat, an Islamist group, has come on the scene apparently to counter the public outrage over the humiliation of a Hindu schoolteacher in Narayanganj.

July 15, 2022
July 15, 2022

The fault in our star-gazing: Do we care about teachers?

The beating of the principal is symptomatic of a time when teachers have lost their “value” in the system.

July 3, 2022
July 3, 2022

Narail teacher's humiliation: 4 accused placed on remand

A local court today (July 3, 2022) granted three-day remand each for four accused in a case filed over humiliating the principal of Mirzapur United Degree College in Narail.

June 2, 2016
June 2, 2016

A symptom of the disease

How can freedom of speech flourish when sensitivities are so high, and public patience so low, when dissent is considered dangerous, any critique is considered to be a challenge, and all opposition is viewed as an existential threat that must be crushed? How credible are the preachy platitudes about democracy coming from people who are not its best exemplar?

May 21, 2016
May 21, 2016

MP plays judge-jury-prosecutor!

An MP – who paradoxically represents the ruling coalition as well as its opposition in the parliament – recently played the proverbial role of the judge, jury and prosecutor.

May 20, 2016
May 20, 2016

A teacher has been taught his lesson!

Greek historian Herodotus, living in the fifth century, couldn't have known in advance that a headmaster was going to be humiliated in Narayanganj on the second Friday of May 2016.

May 19, 2016
May 19, 2016

Humiliation of teacher: Islamist group comes to MP's defence as protest continues across Bangladesh

Tehrik-e-Khatme Nabuwwat, an Islamist group, has come on the scene apparently to counter the public outrage over the humiliation of a Hindu schoolteacher in Narayanganj.

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