Ekushey Padak Bitorom Ebong Kich'hu Katha
Shakil Sarwar
Awami year - mostly islamic bashing muslim name-bearing low lives
and/or communal hindus. And see how BUET Prof Shahjahan was humiliated
by the Awamis - a fascist party not known to show respect to true
intellectuals. Did the neutral Daily Star mention anything about Prof
Shahjahan incident? Why not?
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Ekushey Padak distributed
Let's show respect to language martyrs:PM
New Nation, February 20, 2002
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia on Tuesday urged all concerned to
make concerted efforts rising above ideological differences to forge
greater national unity for the welfare of people.
"Let all of us show genuine respect to the memories of the martyrs of
the Language Movement by contributing from our respective positions to
the uplift and welfare of the country's poor people, who passed
through afflictions in every turn," she said while speaking at a
function here organised on the occasion of "Ekushey Padak"
distribution and a seminar on the completion of 50 years of the
Language Movement.
The Prime Minister distributed "Ekushey Padak" among 11 personalities
and one organisation for the year 2001 and 14 personalities for the
year 2002 as a recognition of their contributions to the fields of
language movement, literature, culture, journalism, education, music,
film and drama at the function held in the Osmany Memorial Hall.
Each award contains a gold medal, a cash of Taka 40 thousand and a
citation.
The recipients of the Ekushey Padak for the year 2001 are Abdul Matin
for Language Movement, "The Mother Language Lovers of the World",
Prof. M. Rafiqul Islam and Shamoly Nasreen Chowdhury in education,
Poet Mahadev Saha, Prof. Zia Haider and Nirmalendu Goon in literature,
Golam Mustafa in film, Ataur Rahman in drama, Kabial Fani Barua
(posthumously) in music, Shah Abdul Karim in folk-music and Binoy
Bashi Jaladas in instrumental music.
The recipients of Ekushey Padak for the year 2002 are Moulana Abdul
Hamid Khan Bhasani (posthumously) in language movement, Dr. Mohammad
Shahiddullah (posthumously) in literature and language movement, Prof.
Dr. Sufia Ahmed in language movement and culture, Kabial Ramesh Shil
(posthumously) in music, Sirajur Rahman in journalism, Sadek Khan in
language movement and film, Gazi Mazharul Anwar in music, Dr. Manzur
Hossain (posthumously) in language movement, Advocate Kazi Golam
Mahbub in language movement, Prof. Sharif Hossain and Prof. Dr. Abul
Kalam Azad (posthumously) in education, Abdur Jabbar Khan
(posthumously) in film, Ahmed Safa (posthumously) in literature and
Protiva Mutshuddhi in education.
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Shahjahan was nominated for Ekushey Padak for the
year 1996 for his contribution to the field of edcuation. But his
padak was not awarded and rather it was postponed by the then
government in 1997. As per customs, Prof. Shajahan came to the Osmany
Memorial Hall as usual to receive his Ekushey Padak but he had been
asked by the higher authority at that time to leave the auditorium. He
died on September 20, 2000.
Postponement related to his padak giving has now been withdrawn and
his wife Mahmuda Jahan received padak on his behalf.
From this year, Ekushey Padak will be distributed among recipients in
the same year for which they would be nominated.
Family members and relatives of Moulana Bhasani declared that the
Ekushey Padak given to this legendary leader would be given to the
National Museum for preservation while the cash would be given to
Islamic University Trust Fund.
The function was also addressed by State Minister for Cultural Affairs
Selima Rahman and Secretary of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs Nazmul
Ahsan Chowdhury. Director General of National Museum Dr. Iftekharul
Awal presented a paper on the occasion.
Tarek Ali
is this 'ekushey podok' for Prof. Dr. M. Shahjahan. It shows that what
low mentality the behaya matari possesses. When Dr. Shahjahan was one
of the few who got the 'pododk' most deservingly for his outstanding
contribution for education in general and for BUET in particular, the
Aoami goons shamelessly deprived him of the medal after coming to
power purely because Prof. Shahjahan did not belong to Aoami group.
Prof. Shahjahan was one of the very few with distinctions of being
academically top and administartionwise superb. During his VC-ship,
BUET reached its glory. He saved the university from destruction by
his leadership in a very difficult time when the other universities
were going down the drain. But the behaya matari demonstrating her
father's character did not hesitate to strip the honor from Prof.
Shahjahan. It is a shame that the govt. did not give enough
clarification on the disgraceful Aoami act and simply casually
provided the medal to his family. As some one wrote after that, it is
not honoring Dr. Shahjahan with this 'ekushey podok', but it is rather
honoring the 'podok' by confering it upon Dr. Shahjahan. Dr. Shahjahan
was much bigger than this podok, but the Aoami gordovs did not value
talent, as there is a saying that a donkey can not understand the
value of the load it carries except its physical weight.
-TA
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Mohammed Kalam
the BUET tradition of seniority and based on entirely on loyalty to
petty party politics of BNP (Bangladesh Nazi Party) and during his
VC-ship BUET sufferred the most.
He has no 'abodan' in BUET's excellence rather he introduced
factionalism among BUET teachers and led almost complete destruction
of BUET's reputation as an Institute of Excellence. We thank Allah
that Awami League came to power in 1996 and saved BUET from complete
annihillation.
During the last 5 years of Awami League rule, BUET was free from
politically motivated VCs. But we might again witness the viscious
Nazi 'thaba' on BUET's campus soon!
mkal707
scb bibek
Tarek Ali
But I will reproduce a post from another cyber forum whose contents
sqaurely refutes the bekub's ignorance (or prejudice). The same bekub
finds Azad Chowdhury, a card carrying member of Aoamis and a member of
the Aoami presidium perfectly ok as DU VC who Aomized the
administration from the top to bottom perfectly ok. The fact of the
matter is that the gordov makal does not have any shred of proof of
what he said. But what is new here, is it not the general case for
makal? ....
-TA
For the sake of setting the record straight, a few lines need to be
said here.
Dr. Shahjahan became the Vice Chancellor of BUET by dint of his
qualifications,
experience and demonstrated administrative ability. There is no rule
(or
tradition) that ‘the senior-most’ professor has to be the
Vice Chancellor.
(And there would not be any rational behind such a rule if it
existed). It is
not at all true that the senior-most teacher was always appointed as
BUET VC
before Dr. Shahjahan. Anybody who is familiar with BUET over the last
two decades will identify such cases. Dr. Shahjahan was academically
among the two
senior-most professors serving the university when he was appointed
BUET VC.
Dr. Shahjahan was not politically aligned or biased to any political
party when discharging his duties as Vice Chancellor. He may have his
own personal political opinion like everybody else, but that never
interfered in maintaining his neutrality as the VC. This can be easily
verified from the members of the teacher, student and employee
communities of BUET. He treated every teacher and
student fairly irrespective of their political ideologies.
When Dr. Shahjahan was not a part of BUET anymore, he was free to
pursue any
work he liked. He became the President of IEB, which was an honorary
position. He essentially infused new life to this organization with
his
usual style by initiating a number of new projects for the engineering
profession in Bangladesh. He energized IEB and freed it from the
mundane
cycle of some routine activities.
One does not have to go too far to find out about Dr.
Shahjahan’s sincerity,
integrity, dedication to duties, and capacity. General population of
BUET
will testify to the success of his administration when it enjoyed the
best
academic atmosphere and development in recent time. He was a person
who
always refused to yield to adversities and went beyond his routine
duties to
break the status quo. His dynamism, indomitable enthusiasm, courage
and work
for aggressive targets are hard to be matched by anybody in
contemporary
Bangladesh. It would only expose the extreme level of our intellectual
bankruptcy if we fail to take benefit of the vision of Dr. Shahjahan
for the
good of our country due to narrow partisan attitude.
Sincerely,
M. T. Rahman
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Mohammed Kalam
iota of BUET knowledge. He has mixed up BUET traditions with that of
Dhaka University!
shahajahan got the vc-ship through nepotism and favoritism, and not by
dint of his administrative and academic excellence. period.
mkal707
scb bibek
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