Enayetullah Khan, The Holiday, and Rashiduzzaman
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By Narayan Gupta
What is the commonality between Enayetullah Khan and Rashiduzzaman?
They both were lower-ranking chamcha of Huzur-e- Ala FM Ayub Khan in
the 1960s. Enayetullah’s paper "The Holiday" was the dumping ground of
all Stuti-Path of Dacca’s pseudo-intellects. In those days, they used
to swear by Basic Democracy of Ayub Khan. Monem Khan of Mymensingh
used to be their spiritual guru. A fresh doctorate from England,
Professor Rashiduzzaman, was busily writing down the merits of Ayub’s
Basic Democracy. The same doctorate is now busily selling another
Snake Oil through the courtesy of the Internet. Who is buying this
Snake Oil? All the Asad Khans, Asif Hasans, and Tarek Alis of
Bangladesh.
Now only a few words re. the self proclaimed gutless of the Fourth
Estate of a Third World and its Seventh Grade magazine!
If you refer the paper stack of The Holiday of its 32nd anniversary,
you will notice the admission of Enny Khan of being uncontrolled
sycophant of the Huzurs, i.e., the Pathan Khans of Rawal Pindi. Old
copies of the Holiday during the Basic Democracy days are still
available for interested researchers.
How to cover up the misdeed of this Deshi Khan - mere Parti Shekh in
the eyes of the blue eyed Pathan? He found a ploy - ten times more
laughable than the famous "Dog ate the homework" excuse.
"I wore a M-A-S-K", he pleaded to justify his nefarious acts of Ayubian
era, "in order to protect from the wrath of the Dictator". Come on
Enny, why do you underestimate the English-speaking Bengalis? The
other day someone commented in the web page of NFB that Dhaka based
Inellecties are no more worth than the livestock of the West Bengali
intellecties (that person wrongly attributed the phrase to Nirad
Chaudhuri). That man, however racist he may be, must have come to the
erroneous conclusion after reading Deshi Khan's plea.
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naray...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Enayetullah Khan, Holiday, and Rashiduzzaman
>
> By Narayan Gupta
>
> What is the commonality between Enayetullah Khan and Rashiduzzaman?
Very little, except that they are both anti-Awami League NOW. I was a
regular reader of the Weekly Holiday in the late sixties and recall that
Mr. Enayetullah Khan wrote articles that were supportive of
"progressive" and "left-leaning" parties, including AL, and very
critical of "Islam-pasand" parties (the paper used to carry cartoons
ridiculing Mr. Nurul Amin and Moulana Maududi on a regular basis). In
fact, it was a mouth piece of the pro-Peking National Awami Party, whose
student wing was led by his younger brother Mr. Rashed Khan
Menon. This political group was pushing for independence even before
AL. One of its student wings (Porbo Bangla Chatro Union, Mahbubullah
Group) coined the slogan, "krishak sramik ostro dhoro, purba bangla
mukta koro" in early 1970, ONE YEAR BEFORE the independence movement
launched by AL (I know because I saw them chanting this slogan while
staging a protest march on Dhaka University campus).
I was not familiar with Dr. Rashiduzzaman those days. I understand that
he was a centrist or conservative academician at that time.
> They both were lower-ranking chamcha of Huzur-e- Ala FM Ayub Khan in
> the 1960s.
Do you have any info to substantiate this allegation? I do not recall
either being "chamchas" of Ayub Khan. I followed the political
developments very closely in those days, and know who was a "chamcha"
and who was not.
>Enayetullah’s paper "The Holiday" was the dumping ground
>of
> all Stuti-Path of Dacca’s pseudo-intellects.
"Stutipath" of whom or what? As I said, the Holiday, at that time,
had a radical left posture. The only "intellectuals" that wrote in
that paper belonged to the extreme left, and included Badruddin Omar
(noted author), Alamgir Kabir (movie director) and Serajul Huq Khan
(labor leader, not to be confused with Serajul Alam Khan, another left
leader and founding father of Jatio Shomajtantric Dal). I do not recall
any of these people writing anything but condemnation of the Ayub-Monem
regime.
> In those days, they used
> to swear by Basic Democracy of Ayub Khan.
Again, Mr. Enayetullah Khan was extremely critical of the Ayub regime
and Basic Democracyin the late sixties. I understand that Dr.
Rashiduzzaman wrote a book analyzing the merits and demerits of Basic
Democracy, and do not know that he "swore" by Basic Democracy. I have
not read this book. Have you?
> Monem Khan of Mymensingh
> used to be their spiritual guru.
Mr. Monem Khan was a constant object of ridicule in Holiday.
> A fresh doctorate from England, Professor Rashiduzzaman, was busily >
writing down the merits of Ayub’s
> Basic Democracy.
Did you read this book? Was the book an academic, research-type analysis
of Basic Democracy, or was it an advocacy document for Basic Democracy?
Can you elaborate?
If an academician were to write a political analysis of the Bath
Socialist Party of Iraq, that would not make the academician a
"chamcha" of Saddam Hossain. Would it?
> The same doctorate is now busily selling another
> Snake Oil through the courtesy of the Internet. Who is buying this
> Snake Oil? All the Asad Khans, Asif Hasans, and Tarek Alis of
> Bangladesh.
Would you mind telling us your opinion on the SUBSTANCE of specific
issues addressed by Dr. Rashiduzzaman's recent article? Calling
something "snake oil" does not make it so. Personally, I do not support
further political rearrangement of India. I believe such rearrangements
will exacerbate the problems of all the countries of the Indian
subcontinent, as I indicated in a previous debate with Dr. Jaffor Ullah.
But, that is my personal opinion.
> Now only a few words re. the self proclaimed gutless of the Fourth
> Estate of a Third World and its Seventh Grade magazine!
I do not know where you are going with these invectives!
> If you refer the paper stack of The Holiday of its 32nd anniversary,
> you will notice the admission of Enny Khan of being uncontrolled
> sycophant of the Huzurs, i.e., the Pathan Khans of Rawal Pindi. Old
> copies of the Holiday during the Basic Democracy days are still
> available for interested researchers.
Can you tell me how I can access these copies? As I told you, I recall
Mr. "Enny Khan" being very critical of the Ayub regime in late sixties.
So, did these "sychophancy" take place in early sixties?
> How to cover up the misdeed of this Deshi Khan - mere Parti Shekh in
> the eyes of the blue eyed Pathan? He found a ploy - ten times more
> laughable than the famous "Dog ate the homework" excuse.
>
> "I wore a M-A-S-K", he pleaded to justify his nefarious acts of
Ayubian
> era, "in order to protect from the wrath of the Dictator".
Again, can you tell me which issue of Holiday carried this confession
and when did this act of sychophancy take place? If it is true, then Mr.
Khan must have changed his stance during the sixties.
> Come on
> Enny, why do you underestimate the English-speaking Bengalis? The
> other day someone commented in the web page of NFB that Dhaka based
> Inellecties are no more worth than the livestock of the West Bengali
> intellecties (that person wrongly attributed the phrase to Nirad
> Chaudhuri). That man, however racist he may be, must have come to the
> erroneous conclusion after reading Deshi Khan's plea.
That man was a racist and a communalist, period. Like all racists and
communalists, his disdain for "Dhaka-based intellects" represents
ignorance and falsehood.
Do you realize, Mr. Gupta, that the mindset represented in the above
statement promote racism and communalism, and may have led to the
unfortunate and bloody partition of India?
Best wishes.
M. Harun uz Zaman
Columbus, Ohio.
Artho-niti-bid
As a family member of the Founding Printer and Publisher of the
"Weekly Holiday", I do not disagree with M. Harunuzaman. The ties
between Enayetullah Khan and Rashiduzaman are from their days at the
University of Dhaka in the early Sixties. Rashiduzzaman is a pseudo
Bangladeshi (much like Harunuzaman in the Left). Wahiduzzaman Manic
is the brother of Rashiduzaman, a regular insane contributor to this
forum. If you check the archives, you can learn more about this dual
strategy of one brother boot-licking the left while the other one's
passport getting confiscated by Sheikh Mujib Govt. of the early 70s.
Enayetullah Khan is a good writer. All his brothers are very highly
accomplished members of the Dhaka elite. His brothers: Obaidullah Khan
(former Ambassador,Minister, Civil Servant),his brother Sadeq Khan
(eminent journalist and intellectual), Rashed Khan Menon (another
brother, who is a Communist Stalwart) and Badal Khan ( a Millionaire).
Compared to Enayetullah Khan's family, both Rashiduzaman,
Wahiduzzaman Manic and Harunuzaman are Small Rats by Bangladeshi Elite
standards.
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Mymensingh. Mr. Narayan Gupta has penetrating view about our
subcontinental affair. He often speaks his mind. He just reminded me
the sordid affair of the 1960s Dacca. I was just a student in the high
school when Gen. Ayub Khan forcibly took the power of Pakistan. The
historian would say that it was a bloodless coup. Correct. But a lot
of things went wrong in the decade following Ayub’s ascension to
power. Ayub’s Chamcha and that includes professor Rashiduzzaman would
call the decade – A decade of Development. But humorously, we used to
call the decade – the Decade of Decadence.
In Dacca then, a group of Muslim Leaguers was kowtowing Ayub Khan.
Prominent among them was Abdul Jabbar Khan. Two of his sons were very
active those days. The oldest (correct me if I’m wrong) Obaidullah
Khan became a government servant by qualifying the coveted CSP exam.
Jabbar Khan’s other son, Enayetullah Khan, opened a new weekly
newspaper, The Holiday. I will not repeat what Mr. Narayan Gupta wrote
in his posting. But one thing is very clear. The Bangalees of
erstwhile East Pakistan suffered heavily because of the few families
that have sold their souls to Punjabi-Pathan clique. Jabbar Khan was
prominent among them. He later became the speaker of the national
assembly. Enayetullah Khan’s Holiday soon became the mouthpiece of
Dhaka’s Pseudo-intellectuals. First we saw the left leaning Maoists
writing essays. But later when Ayub Khan extended his hand towards Mao
in the aftermath of 1965 War, Enayetullah’s paper became a mouthpiece
for Ayub Khan too. If my memory serves me right, the Holiday may have
good thing to say about Ayub’s “Friend, not Master.” Enayetullah sold
softly Ayub’s Basic Democracy, because Ayub wanted to have friendly
relations with Uncle Mao. So much for intellectual honesty of
Enayetullah.
Enayetullah was not alone in this game of appeasing Ayub Khan.
Rashiduzzaman when he returned from England with his coveted prize,
also joined the Tamasha. As a college kid, I used to be a dissident.
Without having a doctorate, some of us who used our left brain to
collect data and analyze them and used our right brain to come to a
conclusion being intuitive, we knew that our wing of Pakistan was
bleeding non-stop. But young suave, polished, and articulated person
such as Enayetullah and Rashiduzzaman without even knowing joined the
propaganda machine of Gauhar Altaf (the mastermind behind the Basic
Democracy). Enayetullah did it for the love of his guru from Beijing.
Rashiduzzaman did it for self-promotion. For a while, the professor
was a darling of his boss G.W. Chowdhury because he belonged to Pindi
Pasand group favoring the status quo of Punjabi domination. In the
same department of DU (Political Science Department), there was another
group favoring strong autonomy. This group headed by MAC (Prof.
Muzzafar Ahmed Chowdhury) was believed to be the author of Awami
League’s Six-point formula. From the account of the history, it turns
out that Ayub lover such as Enayetullah Khan and Rashiduzzaman was in
the wrong camp from the very beginning.
Does it surprise anyone that the same Rashiduzzaman still to this date
pens anti-Indian article in Enayetullah’s pseudo-intellectual potrika,
the Holiday. Rashiduzzaman could not come out of pre-1965 paradigm.
In the vicissitudes of time the entire world has changed, but we cannot
say that for both Enayetullah and Rashiduzzaman. Both of them are
still diehard anti-Indian, trapped in Auyb’s paradigm. . And they
would remain so for a long long time. Anyone who knows how to put some
disjointed notes badmouthing India will be able to publish his or her
article in the Holiday. No kidding!
In article <94s64i$rou$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
naray...@my-deja.com wrote:
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By Narayan Gupta
I am delighted to note that there are persons in this world who would
jump from the sofa and come in defense of Mintu Mia (Mr. Enayetullah
Khan), founder- editor of The Holiday. This offers me another
opportunity to further unmask the Chameleon like performance of this
well-circulated magazine of Dhaka. I have seen someone who writes
castigating for the support his father lent to FM Ayub Khan. I
disagree with him. Mr. Enayetullah Khan should be able to stand or
fall on his own merit.
To start with, I am obligated to offer a clarification to Mr.
Harunuzzaman’s misdirected assertion at this Banda. He wrote that it
is the kind of my mindset that led to the formation of Pakistan.
First, I was not even born when the struggle for formation of Homeland
for the Indian Muslims was gaining momentum in large cities like
Allahabad, Hyderabad, Lahore, Delhi, Bombay, Ahamedabad, Meerut,
Aligarh and Lucknow. Calcutta and Dhaka (then a town of no more than
2.5 lakhs) joined in the fray at the very late stage. Thus to accuse an
unborn for something that was taking place in Bombay and Karachi sounds
to be little too unconventional - even in the standard of a Tol-
Madrassah method of teaching. Will it be fair to blame the Caliph
Harun-al-Rashid for the assassination of Julius Caesar an event that
happened a 1000 year before Rashid was born?
Now, when Pakistan was actually born, I was too young to understand
what was going on. I can tell with documentary proof that some members
of my family did in fact SUPPORT the demand for Pakistan. One such
member was roughed up and narrowly escaped death at Habiganj in the
hands of Ansar Bahini. It was also remembered with immense gratitude
that four of my relatives who were not in favor of partition were
rescued in Lahore by a person who just buried his sister. The innocent
girl and all other members of her group were escaping in a Delhi-Lahore
train in September1947. Instead, the train brought their mutilated
bodies to Lahore station. That did not deter the good Samaritan of
Lahore. In men like him I see a true teaching of any religion. Where
are such men these days?
What was my opinion when I stepped into adulthood? I thought that the
splitting was inevitable considering the fact that the two communities
were so mistrustful of each other after the events that shaped the
country in the first half of the 20th century. I will give an example
or two on this matter. The Zamindar who deeded the land for the
Mymensingh Railway Station had precondition that the Station Master of
that station shall be no other than a Barendra Brahmin - thus Muslims
and "Low Caste" Hindus are barred for life. No self-respecting person
will accept this as an example of good intention and will obviously
seek for redress. Divorce is a natural option. Annada Shankar Ray
does not need any introduction. In the highly competitive ICS exam, he
came out probably fifth. But the British government, to please the
pressure groups of the UP/Punjab Muslims, moved up less meritorious
candidates pushing back Mr. Ray about 20 position behind and thus
depriving him of prestigious postings. What do you think about this?
Same British trick- Divide and Rule. (Incidentally, Mr. Ray served in
Mymensingh.) Here is another. Take a typical year in thirties of
Punjab Engineering College at Lahore. The seats were so reserved in
favor the Muslim Landlords that there were no rooms for admission of
more than four Hindus, two Sikhs and two Christians in a class of about
forty.
Thus, the trap was laid and a stage was set for showdown. In the East,
the ALL Hindus were portrayed as "Dushman" while in the West and North
it was the reverse. Majority people of earlier generations, including
mine and probably Mr. R. Zaman’s smilingly walked into the trap.
Result? Fratricidal killings and unparalleled cross exodus (in some
cases, premeditated expulsion). That is what I failed (even do now)
understand. I am not ready to assume blame for those happenings. If
you are serious, come with me and I’ll tell you where to point out
accusing fingers. It may start with those who willingly walked into
the trap of Brits without ever spending a day in the Jails. It shall
NOT be forgotten that despite bullying and cajoling, there were saner
men in Bengal like Comrade Muzaffar Ahamed, Poet Nazrul Islam, Md.
Nausad Ali. The Poet went as far as calling the Pakistan as Fakistan -
Land of the Fakes. Mr. Harunuzzaman, please do not bring the theory
that Nazrul Islam was influenced by his wife and few misdirected
idealists!
As I said before, I saw whole lot of justification of a political
division of a Raj, which was seldom a single political entity. Who
foresaw in 1947 that there will be another division and who will bet
his 401K fund that there will not be two or three more splits of any of
the three splinters in another 50 year? The point is, who will stand
up and admit, "Yes, I did participate and still will take part in
expulsion of the minorities - rich or not?" Will you, Mr.
Harunuzzaman, do you personally know anyone who will?
Let me now turn to subject of The Holiday Fan Club. It appears that
there are more lessons to be learnt. I’ll not deny that the magazine
did not offer space to many secular, even Communist leaning writers one
time or another. That is the whole issue. If it were a blatant
reactionary paper like Maulana Atahar Ali’s Doinik Millat or Maulana
Akram Khan’s Doinik Azad, then no one will pay any attention. The only
credit I can give to Mintu Mia is for his belated admission of hiding
behind a M-A-S-K (Aygga Korta, Mukhosk - like a Bohurupe). What
remains undetermined is: What is the True Face? I cannot tell, I
admit. Gouge out my eye as prescribed in the code if you will for that
fault.
I can hardly restrain myself from giving a few more examples of the
Mukhoshdhari for the extreme loyal members of the Fan Club:
1. An issue of the Holiday about two years ago, it was the time when
Bangladesh has an official holiday for Janmasthami - the Birth Thithi
of Hindu God Lord Krishna. For the dwindling Hindu citizen, the
government still has two or three official holidays in a year - which
makes Bangladesh only the second government among sixty other Islamic
countries to offer a holiday for the Hindus. The other being
Indonesia. The editor the magazine, in a signed editorial, contested
the reason for declaring a holiday on that occasion. No problem with
Shiite Muharram (because Mir Musharraf Hossain may have written a book
by the name Bishad Sindhu) or Christain X-Mas holidays. His arguments
were: First, that Krishna was a mythological figure. I did not know
that before the Khan told us. Anyway, his strongest argument was that
the Kafirs’ god was "W-O-M-E-N-I-Z-E-R"!!! First, accuse the blue
skinned guy as a fiction figure, on the same breath you accuse him of
doing hanky-panky with village girls! If we call this Hindu Avtar
(Prophet) a WOMANIZER, what phrase will be appropriate who sleeps with
several including a nine year old? I reckon there is a sort of
Blasphemy law in Bangladesh - to equally respect the sentiment of
religious minded people. Where was the righteous columnist like Dr.
Rashiduzzaman then, and now? For the benefit of permanent members of
the Fan Club, let me say this: Other than the Bajrangis of Bharat and
its admirers, I seldom use my hometown phrase Gobbo’sab in private
discussions; of late The Holiday is approaching fast towards the same
laurel.
2. Let me talk about a very recent issue of the same magazine. Seldom
I have seen any editor attempting to describe the gruesome killings of
August 15, 1975 as mere "E X C E S S." Where do the excess lie,
Mohapondit Atish Dipankrji - the Tenth Jewel of the Durbar? Under
whose dictate you still push your pen? Ayub Khan, the patron of Miss
Christine Keeler’s thighs is already in the arms of the Almighty, so
are Ishkandar Mirza and even the taller of the two Zias. What length
of sadistic cruelty on that night would have been sufficient and
acceptable to the Fan Club? Killing of couple of dozen men, women and
children is an "EXCESS" in his judgment? Which school of sycophancy
teaches such thing, may I ask Mr. Harunuzzaman?
The case of Badar Ud Din Omar was cited to prop up the collapsed
credibility of the 7th grade magazine of the Fifth Columnists of
Dhaka. I have not every single piece of Mr. Omar. He is highly
respected person since many years. Why has he lent his name to the self-
confessed masked men is something that only Mr. Omar can (and should,
if he wants) explain. I also know this, the same Mr. Omar has written
for Bangla "Desh" Magazine. Desh did publish writings of diverse men
like Rabindranath to Atulya Ghosh (an arch reactionary politician).
That by itself prove nothing, does it, Mr. Harunuzzaman? If someone
has to disprove the guilt by association, the responsibility for this
is not mine. Both Mr. Rashiduzzaman and Omar have the opportunity
still open to them. Also, it is neither my responsibility to make
available relevant copies The Holiday for the researchers. Mintu Mia
the editor is only a phone call away. I do not save his papers nor
copies of the Organizer of the RSS. The latter is often utilized for
cat litter. Holiday office is right in the middle of the City. Its
address is something like 421 Telephone Wire Lane, if my memory is
correct.
About the sacrilegious phrase used about some Dhaka writers, please be
noted that his name is Mr. Shibly Azad. He claimed to be know a lot
about Dhaka’s IIT. Thus, full credit for coining phrase should go to
him and his Alma Mater, not this Sharamayo (stray dog). However, I got
the message and promise not to quote Mr. Azad again. This Sharamayo
(stray dog) is dedicated to weed out bigotry of all shades, especially
of saffron color in South Asian context and also all remaining colors
in global context. There is no other alternative. Let us take a vow in
this regard and work in this direction starting this moment.
I will be ready to discuss about reimbursement of the phone call
charges to Dhaka.. I hope, I have covered most vital points. Other
points raised in Mr. Haruuzzaman’s commentary are inconsequential
compared to those discussed here. However, if pressed upon, I am ready
to discuss those as well.
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MY Response to Narayan Gupta alias Fatemollah: Let’s Shun the
Intellectual Hoodlums
By Asad-Khan
Introduction
I had no idea when I posted several articles in SCBs that I will be
busy in “writing” articles (as the intellectual frauds claim) for
“helping” our homeland. Since I am a novice in this business, I have
been reading many posts from SCB archives to understand the nature and
extent of Mir Jafforian propaganda against some of the SCB posters or
writers of articles. I found gold mines in SCB archives. Don’t be
surprised if I even re-post some of those rejoinders, especially those
which have been selectively and mischievously doctored or left out from
the Mir Jafforian Web site. At an appropriate time, I will also freely
borrow facts (even vocabularies) from the SCB ARCHIVES. It goes
without saying that I am not in competition with any bogus
intellectual. I am also in the process of collecting some relevant
information on couple of slanderers to depict their hypocrisies.
Two Intellectual Hoodlums, Narayan Gupta and Mir Jaffor Ullah, are
waiting for a response from me. They love to be engaged in “DEBATE.”
They have substitute name-calling and slandering others for “debate.”
They are dedicated to the salvation of our motherland by writing
“articles” for saving our motherland. They want me to take part in
this. Both of them have flooded SCBs with their “important articles”
for rescuing our motherland from the imaginary enemies of our
motherland. For them, spreading rumors and lies about individuals for
expressing opinions is going to help Bangladesh. For them, slandering
individual human beings for holding different views is crucial to
develop Bangladesh. For them, attacking personal sentiments and
religious beliefs will transform them into neo-secularists. Bashing is
their business—may be their only pre-occupation is with bashing
something: they are engaged in Bangladesh-Bashing, Rashiduzzaman-
Bashing, Muslim-Bashing, Islam-Bashing.
EXCHANGE: (according to Mir Jafforian version, this is a Debate)
M. Rashiduzzaman, the author of “Bangladesh and the Separatists Quest
Across the Border (Holiday, January 12, 2001) is once again under
slanderous attack from Narayan Guptas and Mir Jaffor Ullahs. These
bogus secularists get very sensitive if Dr. M. Rashiduzzaman writes an
article on any topic related to Indian pressures on Bangladesh.
Narayan Gupta alias Fatemollah, a celebrated self-serving secularist,
started his response with the following dirt: (Reference: Narayan
Gupta, “My Gut Reaction to Rashiduzzamn’s Holiday article," SCB,
January 26, 2001) : “The Rashiuzzaman's garbiticle (garbage + article)
that was published in Mr. Enayetullah Khan's stenchy mouth piece of Jan
12, 2001 issue surprised none. Remember the dogs of the famous Hounds
of Baskerville? That the dogs did not bark when it should have helped
to resolve the case. Here too, only the street dogs did not bark in the
fateful days of 1971. What more convincing evidence is wanted of them?
A Mahmud Ali or a "Raja" Tridib Roy have at least the guts to admit
that they did and still do lick the Masters' boots.”
My Response: Any reader can easily note from the opening indecent words
of Narayan Gupta that he is engaged in all kinds of name-calling even
though Mir Jaffor Ullah calls “it” an “analysis” of Rashiduzzaman’s
article. In stead of writing a rebuttal to Dr. M. Rashiduzzaman’s
article, Narayan Gupta (may be with some MIR Jafforian editorial
assistance) characterized the article as Garbage. Having tasted that
“Garbage,” Narayan Gupta is now accusing both the author of the article
and the Editor of Holiday . he caled them “some kind of street dogs.”
It seems that Narayan Gupta has a fancy for garbage. He loves to smell
and lick “garbage.” So he is now looking for street dogs.
It is very clear from Narayan Gupta’s name-calling and name-dropping
that he has essentially nothing substantive to refute Rashiduzzaman’s
observations. If Narayan Gupta-cum Fatemollah had any decency left in
his character then he would have tried to refute the observations of
the author. Given the fact that the author of the said article had
relied, I assume, on many national Indian Dailies and Weeklies, I would
like to conclude that neither Narayan Gupta nor Mir Jaffor ullah has
stomach for digesting the truth
Any reader can look for Indian dailies or weeklies like Statesman or
Outlook etc to substantiate what Rashiduzzaman has narrated in refined
English. Narayan Gupta’s agenda driven name-calling will take him
nowhere. Mir Jafforian diffusion of blatant falsehoods about a single
individual can’t give any ounce of credibility to MIR JAFFORIAN lies.
Having lost his mind, Narayan Gupta, known for his Bangladesh-bashing,
kept on name-calling and name dropping without adding any concrete
comment on the content of the article. This is nothing but an act of
desperation. Having followed the Mir Jafforian dictum, if you can’t
repudiate the MESSAGE, try to REPUDIATE the MESSANGER, Narayan Gupta-
cum Fatemollah tried to assassinate the author’s character with the
following lies: “I believe Mr. Zaman has earned at least a Doctoral
degree somehow and have learned the mastery of licking Masters' boots
without being easily recognized. When it becomes obvious, he adopts the
tactics of soiling the throwing pie at the nemesis of masters'. Thus,
anything Indian is his target. He can paint Indian landscape with only
one brush - that of F.M. Sam Maneckshaw and Gen. Aurara who assisted
the thugs away with heads bend up to knees. He is the same analyst, in
his quest to be a Kuldip Nayar or a M. J. Akbar, tried to scuttle the
CHT Peace treaty and the Water Treaty with India. He announced that
these treaties were the result of intense "Goading" by the big brother
India. Any proof for such assertion? What proof, has he not heard the
rumor at the Gandaria neighborhood?”
My Response: I found Narayan Gupta’s reckless comments totally
irrelevant to the contents of the article. It is below dignity to
comment on Gupta’s shameless behavior in public forum. However,
suffice it to say that only a bootlicker with Narayan Gupta’s tainted
past can characterize a scholar of good standing or any another
ordinary human being for expressing his opinions in signed article in a
reputed weekly like HOLIDAY. It is an open secret that “Bangladesh
Government” was “goaded” by India for reaching a CHT Treaty. We don’t
need Rashiduzzaman to tell us about this. There is a consensus among
most of the observers of Bangladesh politics about the fact that India
pressured Bangladesh before, during and after the signing of CHT
treaty. I read several of his articles on CHT treaty including the one
published in the Asian Survey. Since I am a die-hard supporter of CHT
treaty, I found Rashiduzzaman’s observations on CHT treaty stipulations
more critical. But I found nothing anti-Indian or unpatriotic in
Rashiduzzaman’s articles on CHT treaty. In fact, he seems to be much
more balanced than most of the critics of CHT treaty. Shame on Narayan
Gupta and Mir Jaffor Ullah for distorting facts.
Bangladesh’s Water Treaty with India is a sham—it is a mockery. The way
the Indian Government has treated various Governments of Bangladesh
over the years is less than fair. Neither Mir Jaffor Ullah nor Narayan
Gupta will concede that the Awami League Government has persistently
expressed frustration for India’s non-compliance of the stipulations of
the Water treaty. The present Government of Bangladesh intensely
dislikes India’s maneuverings and pressures for demanding a linkage
between transit facility and water treaty. All of the newspapers have
been critical about India’s pressures on Bangladesh for opening up
transit facilities in exchange of normal flow if international ways
through Farrakka. I don’t know if Rashiduzzaman has authored any
article on Farraka issue. Truth is stranger than fiction. It is
tragic that in stead of writing rebuttals, Narayan Guptas or Mir Jaffor
Ullahs have taken the cheap path for disseminating slanderous
propaganda against the author. Shame on Narayan Gupta.
Having nurtured a sense of hatred against anything to do with Muslim or
Islamic identity, NARAYAN GUPTA alias Fatemollah wrote: “Now in his
latest thoughtful analysis, no better than the write-ups of Khoir Khans
and Nayeb Alis, asserted that the eastern region of India will
disintegrate and there is a security risk of Bangladesh itself. Thus
"WATCH OUT." Get armed, make alliance with the pariah Islamic republics
like Pakistan and the Talibanis. Result? Consolidation of reactionary
forces of the young Bangladesh. Chase out outspoken writers and
journalists, blast bombs at rallies of secular parties, spread rumors
and sow disaffection among various religious and ethnic groups who are
fairly well dealt by the present administration.”
My Response: I re-read the entire article of Dr. Rashiduzzaman more
than once. The author clearly underscored Bangladesh’s persistent
problems in dealing with spillover effects of insurgency movements in
several North Eastern States of India. No one, excepting some anti-
Bangladeshi elements like Narayan Gupta and his Bangladeshi
collaborator Mir Jaffor Ullah can deny this predicament of Bangladesh.
It is a travesty of truth to suggest that the article suggested for
Bangladesh to build alliance with “talibans.” That’s pure nonsense.
Such distortion is the fruit of collusive collaboration between Narayan
Gupta and Mir Jaffor Ullah.
I think Mir Jaffor Ullahs and Narayan Guptas also got really upset when
they found out that Rashiduzzaman truthfully observed the following:
“So far, the clouds of confusion hang over what actually the Kamatpuris
and Gorkhas want. The Kamatpuris are the Koch people who came to be
known as the Rajbongshis in the 19th century and they lived in the
districts of Dinajpur, Jalpaiguri and the Cooch Behar Princely State in
British India. On the one hand, the dissident voices sound like an
independence demand. But on the other, they appear to be the vibrations
for two more states in West Bengal's north much like the seven states
carved out of the former provinces in the region. However, West Bengal
would not like its vivisection losing the tea producing and other
resource-rich districts on the periphery of the Indian insurgency-prone
states, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. No matter if those are merely
demands for states as part of India or a radical campaign for separate
and sovereign states. Both are strategic omens for Bangladesh for more
than one reason, which the leaders in Dhaka cannot ignore, no matter
what stripes divide them politically
Dr. Rashiduzzaman also observed: “More frequently than others, the
chief ministers of Assam and Tripura accused Bangladesh for sheltering
the resurrected ULFA and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland
(NDFD) activists. It is feared that their suspected "copy cats" now
raised heads in West Bengal. The public perceptions on this matter are
even more accusatory and many Indians in the northeastern states
believe that the ULFAs operated from undercover in Bangladesh. A few
years back Anup Chetia, the ULFA leader, was arrested in Dhaka, and he
is still in jail, but not extradited to India that New Delhi wanted
very much. In the past, the ULFA campaign was directed against the
"outsiders" of Bangladeshi origin as a contrast to the recent campaign
against the Hindi-speaking settlers in Assam. It is not inconceivable
that the feared anti-Bengali campaign could result in large-scale
refugees fleeing the insurgency-prone Northeast, and seek shelter in
Bangladesh.”
Let the readers judge for themselves.
Dr. Rashiduzzaman also observed: “Whatever happens in the north of
West Bengal or in the Northeastern states of India spills over in the
neighbouring countries and whatever insurgency occurs on the other side
of the border propel Bangladesh into strategically dangerous
territories and New Delhi's diplomatic pressure cooker. Meanwhile, the
spin of the Indian media and Indian leaders are summed in the following
paragraphs: (a) India squarely blames the Pakistan's ISI operatives who
allegedly ran their activities from Bangladesh that the authorities in
Dhaka deny; (b) The ULFA activists are presumably well entrenched in
Bangladesh, and the banned organisation supported the creation of
separate states in West Bengal's northern districts that might give
them future logistical support; and (c) India also blames the
Bangladeshi Islamic forces, which presumably wanted to foment trouble
on the entire Indian side of the border.”
I find nothing illegitimate or provocative in Rashiduzzaman’s
observations.
Narayan Gupta and his collaborators have failed to refute the following
observations of Dr. Rashiduzzaman: “For the last couple of years,
Bangladesh has found itself in the quagmire of domestic terror, armed
confrontation, violent crimes and lawlessness. The weapons smuggling
and illegal drug trafficking are often linked with the militants on the
Indian (to a less extent Myanmar) side of the borders. Large-scale
smuggling of illegal merchandise and consumer goods also constitutes a
security concern for Bangladesh. Earlier this year, a high Bangladeshi
official observed appropriately that Bangladesh was a victim of the
insurgency in India's Northeast. But, on the contrary, New Delhi
routinely accuses Bangladesh (more recently also Bhutan) for becoming a
hidden rendezvous for the separatists - it is believed that the
Pakistan's covert support to the Indian dissidents are smuggled through
Bangladesh, an allegation that the GOB has denied more than once.”
In his name-calling campaign against Dr. Rashiduzzaman, Narayan Gupta
also wrote: “Dr. Zaman et al are busy in telling the Bangladeshi
readers about the Rajbangshis, Nepalis, Nagas, Tripuris and other
groups' dissatisfaction against the Indian and regional governments. He
would have us believe that their liberation is near imminent and that
there are some cards in Dhaka's hand only if the Gang of Four had a
chance! Alas, Dr. Zaman, Dilli Dur Ast. It is true that the struggle of
indigenous people of India had begun a thousand years ago. They have
been kicked by almost everybody, Sens, Pals, Mughals, Pathans, Brits
and even Habshis included. Only after 1947 they are receiving some
attention though not proportional to the amount they deserve. The
struggle will go on; the path is thorny but progress will definitely be
made sooner than later. How do all these can be a ground of pleasure
for Dr. Zaman and Mr. Enayetullah Khan? The same Khan who did not
hesitate to serve under a dictator only the other day? Have the spots
disappeared so soon? Talking of the Kamtapuri/Rajbangshis of North
Bengal, any anthropologist will agree that they are no less Bengali
than a Kaliganji like Dr. Zaman - just in case. Rajbangshi dialect is
far more understandable in streets of Jessore or Howrah than that of
guy from Chittagong. Where outside of Chittagong will understand the
phrase, "I coinn no fairoom." or "Puatto Chiaiee Dibek"? The real
sufferer of a destabilization of the region will be the people of the
entire North East India and Bangladesh and may be even some states of
Myanmar. Another exercise of mass scale population movement will
benefit none. Imagine, Kamtapuris sending back the Kishorganjis, the
Ahoms sending back the Mymensinghas, the Tripuris push back the
Comillaites and Sylhetis, Saidpuris kick back the folks who arrived
from Murshidabad and Kolkata. Who on earth can handle such a massive
cross-exodus that invariably will be associated with large scale
bloodletting? In our country, farmers would put a restrain on the mouth
of their calves until he learns the protocol of grazing. Can we not
have something of that sort for the pens of erratic pen pushers? Amen. “
My response: Let Narayan Gupta go to hell. Narayan Gupta jumps from one
theme to another without completing a thought or a sentence. All along
he writes incoherently without any reference to the topic under
discussion. Narayan Gupta has totally distorted whatever Dr.
Rashiduzzaman wrote about Koch-Rajbongshis in his article. Several
Indian weeklies and dailies have recently published that the
“Kamtapuris” in the northern districts of West Bengal are getting
assertive in demanding independence. This is a new development in the
context of pre-existing separatist movements in several North-Eastern
states of India. It is a matter of fact that Bangladesh has to be very
careful in dealing with separatist movements across its border.
Narayan Gupta does not like the idea that Rashiduzzaman has decided to
write an article on the issue of separatism. If Kamtapuris/Rajbonshis
regard themselves as Bangalees, then are they demanding independence?
Whether or not they are Bangalees is not the topic of the article. The
author just narrated that is a separatist movement in northern
districts of West Bengal. Rashiduzzaman observed: “Not yet a
catastrophic display of separatist bloodletting, but the roiling of the
new Kamatpur (Koch-Rajbongshis) Liberation Organisation (KLO) and the
nearly forgotten Gorkha movement are sending tremors in the Indian
Northeast, and beyond. The Kamatpuris want a separate state consisting
of six districts - Malda, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur, Darjheeling,
Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar in West Bengal. Their militant front, the
KLO, promised to "fight for independence of the Kamatpuri people". The
police arrested about 200 Kamatpuri activists in the last few weeks;
several people were killed followed by rallies and strikes. But they
were not the only full-throated advocates for separate homeland. The
Gorkha Liberation Organisation (GIO), nearly lying low for years,
recently stepped up its activities.”
Conclusion
It clearly shows that Narayan Gupta does not disagree with the facts
the author just narrated. The only thing is that he does not “approve”
of the fact Rashiduzzaman is the author of the article. Narayan Gupta’s
communally motivated comments on Rashiduzzaman clearly demonstrates
that his goal is to attack the author. He is desperate to see Dr.
Rashiduzzaman’s voice being silenced. Any decent individual can
understand that Narayan Gupta’s sole intent in SCB or NFB is to
continue to spread blatant lies about Rashiduzzaman. Both Mir jaffor
Ullah and Narayan Gupta alias Fatemollah are engaged in maligning and
defaming Dr. Rashiduzzaman. They have already earned “reputation” for
their indecencies. For me, neither Narayan Gupta nor Mir JafforUllah
is “intellectual” of any kind. However, they want recognition—
especially Mir Jaffor Ullah desperately wants recognition. He does not
mind even mind if I call him a “bogus” intellectual. As long as I call
Mir Jaffor Ullah an “INTELLECTUAL,” he doe not object if I call him a
“bankrupt Intellectual.” Therefore, I would like to characterize
Narayan Gupta and Mir Jaffor Ullah as “intellectual hoodlums”
Thanks for your time. Asad Khan
P.S. Narayan Gupta/FaTEMOLLAH should know that I will refute later all
of his falsehoods and slanderous commments in a separate rejoinder.
In article <94s64i$rou$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
naray...@my-deja.com wrote:
A.H. Jaffor Ullah
other than Wahiduzzaman Manik.
I have access to Wahiduzzaman's samples of lengthy writings which he did in
early 1998 where he shamelessly defended his brother Rashiduzzaman. His
diction remained the same. There, he started distorting my name. He is
doing the same now after nearly three years. They say, old habits don't
die.
Now that I have revealed Asad-Khan's identity, CIA Siddiky aka
Ortho-niti-bid will have a field day.
<asad...@my-deja.com> wrote in message news:950oqv$d5h$1...@nnrp1.deja.com...
> their business-may be their only pre-occupation is with bashing
> something: they are engaged in Bangladesh-Bashing, Rashiduzzaman-
> Bashing, Muslim-Bashing, Islam-Bashing.
>
>>The rest deleted for brevity>>
M FAROOQUE
> From: jaf...@my-deja.com
> Newsgroups:
soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.culture.indian,alt.religion.
islam
> Subject: Re: NFB, Daily Independent and Muktokantha/ Shakil Sarwar's
propaganda in SCB
> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 03:23:08 GMT
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.20.175.249
[deleted]
> Shakil Sarwer asked: "Who is this Abul Kasem? I am losing my sleep. I
> got to know who this fella is?" Narayan Gupta says: "Don't worry about
> who he is. Pay more attention to the message leaving aside the
> messenger." But that won't do in this forum. This pseudo-Islamists
> all of who attended secular schools all their life love to know in gory
> details all about the personal life of their antagonists. Why? So that
> they can malign a person with theirs personal vendetta. In the past
> years, we have seen how the bloodletting took place in this forum in
> public. CIA Siddiky started this with Wahiduzzaman. Next Harunuzzaman
> became the victim. Mahmood Farooque also was mutilated by the same
> abuser. Well, the buck has to stop somewhere. Siddiky's days are on
> the wane. He now hides behind some aliases. Ortho-niti-tibid? Or is
> it Onortho-niti-bid?
[deleted]
and what you just did here:
> From: "A.H. Jaffor Ullah" <Jaf...@netscape.net>
> Newsgroups: soc.culture.bangladesh,soc.culture.bengali,soc.culture.indian
> References: <94s64i$rou$1...@nnrp1.deja.com> <950oqv$d5h$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>
> Subject: Re: Enayetullah Khan, The Holiday, and Rashiduzzaman
> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:02:32 -0800
> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.20.174.140
>
> The prolix write-up of Asad-Khan tells me one thing and that is he is none
> other than Wahiduzzaman Manik.
>
[deleted]
>
> Now that I have revealed Asad-Khan's identity, CIA Siddiky aka
> Ortho-niti-bid will have a field day.
>
Where will the buck stop?
Best Wishes,
Mahmud Farooque
mafar...@msn.com
Artho-niti-bid
"A.H. Jaffor Ullah" <Jaf...@netscape.net> wrote:
> Now that I have revealed Asad-Khan's identity, CIA Siddiky aka
> Ortho-niti-bid will have a field day.
************************************************************************
Dear Mir Jaffor Ullahs and the Manics of the World:
Toomi AAdhaam Hoi-bay Bolia, AAmi Uttaam Na Hoi-Bo Kano ?
In the words of my imaginary Bengali Hindoo sweet-heart and
pleasure-giver, Kamini Ray,
"Kookoor-er Kaaj Kookoor koreche,
Kaamore diyeche paaye,
Tai Bole, kookoor-er kaamrano kina,
Maanusher Shobha Paay ? "
****** Bangladeshi Arthonitibid.
--
Ananda Lok-e, Mongol-o Aalok-e,
Ri-Doy-A, Satya Sundar-o.
-- Sir Rabindranath Tagore in "Gitanjali"
"Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty --
That's All, Ye know on earth, and
All Ye need to know."
-- John Keats in "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
mhz...@my-deja.com
naray...@my-deja.com wrote:
> The Holiday Fan Club: A reply to Mr. Harunuzzaman
>
> By Narayan Gupta
>
> I am delighted to note that there are persons in this world who would
> jump from the sofa and come in defense of Mintu Mia (Mr. Enayetullah
> Khan), founder- editor of The Holiday. This offers me another
> opportunity to further unmask the Chameleon like performance of this
> well-circulated magazine of Dhaka. I have seen someone who writes
> castigating for the support his father lent to FM Ayub Khan. I
> disagree with him.
I applaud your objectivity. The Khan family is spread all over the
ideological and political map. Each person in that family should be
judged on his own merits.
> Mr. Enayetullah Khan should be able to stand or
> fall on his own merit.
Agreed. Please see above.
> To start with, I am obligated to offer a clarification to Mr.
> Harunuzzaman’s misdirected assertion at this Banda. He wrote that it
> is the kind of my mindset that led to the formation of Pakistan.
> First, I was not even born when the struggle for formation of Homeland
> for the Indian Muslims was gaining momentum in large cities like
> Allahabad, Hyderabad, Lahore, Delhi, Bombay, Ahamedabad,
I was talking about your statement (citing someone) about Dhaka-based
"intellects" not matching that of the cattle owned by WB "intellects."
You cited the statement in an approving tone. I was saying that mindset
represented by that quote reflected the patronizing attitude that the
Calcutta-based elite harbored toward the East Bengali (mostly Muslim)
people. I was saying that this kind of mindset may have contributed to
the painful partition of Bengal and India.
My statement (about your quotation) has nothing to do with when and
where you were born. The genesis and intial location of the Pakistan
movement also has nothing to do with what I said there. All I wanted to
point out that if you approved of that mindset NOW, you should realize
what painful outcomes it engendered. If you do not approve of that
mindset, clearly tell me so and I will go away.
[....irrelevant stuff deleted]
> Let me now turn to subject of The Holiday Fan Club.
I am not a member of the Holiday Fan Club. I also know that Mr.
Enayetullah Khan was not consistent in his political positions and
deserves to be criticized for that reason. Your article caught my
attention because it accused him of being a "chamcha" of Ayub Khan. I
have definite knowledge that it is simply not true.
Your other accusations about him may be true. Because I do not have
knowledge about them, I am not going to comment on them. I had definite
knowledge about his alleged "chamcha-giri" of Ayub Khan, and I just
wanted to comment on it.
[..deleted for brevity]
> About the sacrilegious phrase used about some Dhaka writers, please be
> noted that his name is Mr. Shibly Azad.
But he quoted someone from WB, didn't he? And that was my issue.
Best wishes.
M. Harun uz Zaman
Columbus, Ohio
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
naray...@my-deja.com
By Narayan Gupta
I am encouraged at the toning down of Mr. Harunuzzaman’s adulation of
Mr. Enayetullah Khan and his The Holiday - a 34 year old news magazine
of some repute. Still between the cracks, I notice the true colors of
the non-card carrying members of the club.
Let me refresh the facts and pose some questions for the consciences of
the educated people of Bangladesh. The answers are not expected in
public forum. Future deeds will tell what your positions are.
A. MASK - Issue
1. Who else in this subcontinent wore masks anytime in last 53 years?
2.. Which of his writings in last 34 years of his existence are
Masked? Can one help us separate the Masked ones from the ones with
true colors? Is he still wearing a mask?
3. Did he ever receive guidance from his famous father - a devotee of
FM Ayub Khan - in respect to the editorial policy of the magazine?
4. Has he ever apologized to his contributors like Mr. Omar and Dr.
Rashiduzzaman for wearing a mask?
5. Did any of his contributor-admirer ever ask (or, will now) any
explanation for his addiction for Masks?
6. To call an editor/publisher of a National magazine
merely "Inconsistent" when he himself admits of keeping a mask amounts
to no harsher than a slap on the wrist that too at a very late stage?
Does that not reflect an ardent affection towards the benefactor?
B. KRISHNA - A WOMANIZER Issue
1. Krishna is not someone who really walked on earth. The point is
there are more than ten million Hindus who still revere Krishna as a
God. If you want to dispute such belief and the belief like Sylheti
Raja Gobinda Chandra’s transformation into a humongous Gojjar fish,
please go to the 45,000 villages. But what will you call when a
national magazine calls only Krishna a WOMANIZER? Who are the real
targets?
2. Does such act qualify for prosecution under the existing Blasphemy
Law?
3. Are you prepared to demand prosecution in a public forum?
4. Why such behaviors escape the attention of all the three heavyweight
Zamans of Bangladesh when they resort to journalism? Selective
amnesia, I suppose!
C. Aug 15, 1975 EXCESSES Issue
1. On that fateful night about twenty unarmed men women and children
were assassinated in cold blood. When the little boy Russell was
bleeding to death out of bullet wounds and asked for water, Major
Dalim’s Jawans returned with more slugs (and slur too!), not water.
Mr. Enayetullah Khan calls it merely "EXCESSES." Do you agree?
2. You, all the three Zamans are unanimous about the "Goading" factor
behind both CHT treaty and Water Treaty. One of you tried to bring
out "proof" in support. Does your source ever tell where the Dalim
Brigade got instruction from for their "EXCESSES" of that night? Do
Dil-Ka-Payere, Jaan-se- Bada Pakistani Junta or Saudi Monarchy ring a
bell? This Asif Chokra (not a derogatory term, but mere a term of
endearment for being young and restless) is raising hell in this NG
lately calling CIA to be the mastermind of August 15 massacre. But
like you all, he also does not see the shadow of a newly promoted Major
General (who wore a Rayban goggles even in the darkness of an evening)
who reportedly was pacing up and down in the Kurmitola cantonment to
hear the "good news" from the death squad dispatched for an urgent
mission right after the midnight.
3. Please refresh the memory and recollect that one of you found some
merit in "Basic Democracy" of FM Ayub? Can you now tell us what were
the merits. I remember he referred the voters as a "Herd of Cattle"
and thus did not want them to lineup in polling booths. Do you still
agree with Ayub Chacha?
4. If Killing of twenty persons is an "EXCESS," then how many killings
and mutilations would have been JUST and SUFFICIENT to the guest
members of the Club?
5. Would you support similar tool being used in future to resolve a
political issue?
6. Did you or would you support kind of treatment handed out to the
Mussolinis of Bangladesh?
D. NIKHIL DA Issue - this is a new item.
When the Editor of the New Delhi-based weekly "The Mainstream" passed
away, the editor of Holiday tried to rise to the occasion and
wrote "Nikhil Da, we will miss you." This Comrade Nikhil Chakraborty
had his childhood in Barisal - his father was professor of the BM
College. Nikhilda later went to London in late 30s and returned as a
dedicated revolutionary. He never had to wear a MASK. Neither did his
contemporary and comrade, Sajjad Jaheer. Mainstream stood like a Rock
of Gibraltar with the workers, minorities and progressive causes all
its 40 or so years. There were no shortages of tyrants in Delhi
either. Nikhil Chakraborty showed what Character means.
1. When a person like Khan says, "Nikhil Da, we will miss you," does it
not a smack of ultimate hypocrisy? An example of hypocrisy of eighth
order from a news editor of Seventh Grade? Were was I wrong in calling
it a Seventh grade news weekly? Will you accept it as a Third grade
trash?
2. After all this, will anyone of you advocate for this magazine and
say "Enayetullah Hip Hip Hooray!!!
Most of the above questions can generate an answer in binary (Yes/No)
format. If any of the FACTS is incorrect, please let the readers know
which ones?
Lastly, in respect to the infamous quotation coined by the gentleman
(supposedly a Columbia Graduate), Mr. Harunuzzzaman’s point was that
the originator of such observation (Livestock) was from West Bengal.
Thus his point was proven. Now, where did I tell that the pigs do not
lay their calves in West Bengal? In fact, both Mir Zafar and Miran
were West Bengalis. So was Umichand. It is also a fact that good
individuals like Haji Mohammed Mohsin and Kazi Nazrul Islam were the
product of West Bengal. Like wise, someday people of Bangladesh will
pay due honor to martyrs like Dhirendra Nath Datta, Ranada Prasad Saha,
Trailokya Nath Chakraborty, Tegra, Pritilata and thousands of others
unsung heroes.
In fact, if one looks beyond West Bengal, he may find quite a few
piglets in Dhaka as well. Otherwise, we would not have so many willing
khaki dressers surrounding Khondokar Mustaque Ahmed after the mid night
terror of Aug 15, 1975. People will someday find out who rewarded
the "Excesswallas" and still harbor affection towards them. An
affection that is MASKED for the time being and will be unmasked once
an opportunity arrives again.
On Kamtapuri/Rajbangsi issue, all I can say that let me hope that they
are not misguided by "Multi Nation" theory. A political separation may
be fine if that does not trigger a series of population expulsion
movement like "Kishoreganj Ferot Jao," "Sylheti and Comillaites Bari
Phero" or "Mymensinghira Mymenshing’e Bhago." That was my only
concern - someday others will realize that. But will that be too late
then?
In article <9542o7$t2t$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
mhz...@my-deja.com
naray...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Nostalgia of the Holiday Fan Club
>
> By Narayan Gupta
>
> I am encouraged at the toning down of Mr. Harunuzzaman’s adulation of
> Mr. Enayetullah Khan and his The Holiday - a 34 year old news magazine
> of some repute.
I have to tell you again. I am not a fan of Mr. Enayetullah Khan and did
not "adulate" him. I was just trying to correct what I thought was a
factual error in your post. So, there is no question of "adulation"
being "toned down." So that you are clear about my philosophy: I am
neither right wing nor left wing. I am a moderate. I mentioned Mr.
Khan's left-wing inclinations (whether actual or affected) as far as it
was relevant with respect to his alleged loyalty to FM Ayub Khan. Please
do not take that as my support or endorsement of either left politics or
Mr. Khan.
[..irrelevant stuff deleted.]
> Lastly, in respect to the infamous quotation coined by the gentleman
> (supposedly a Columbia Graduate), Mr. Harunuzzzaman’s point was that
> the originator of such observation (Livestock) was from West Bengal.
> Thus his point was proven. Now, where did I tell that the pigs do not
> lay their calves in West Bengal? In fact, both Mir Zafar and Miran
> were West Bengalis. So was Umichand. It is also a fact that good
> individuals like Haji Mohammed Mohsin and Kazi Nazrul Islam were the
> product of West Bengal. Like wise, someday people of Bangladesh will
> pay due honor to martyrs like Dhirendra Nath Datta, Ranada Prasad
Saha,
> Trailokya Nath Chakraborty, Tegra, Pritilata and thousands of others
> unsung heroes.
Your quote represented the unfounded arrogance of the WB elite. Your
mention of all the other info above does not address that point.
> On Kamtapuri/Rajbangsi issue, all I can say that let me hope that they
> are not misguided by "Multi Nation" theory. A political separation
may
> be fine if that does not trigger a series of population expulsion
> movement like "Kishoreganj Ferot Jao," "Sylheti and Comillaites Bari
> Phero" or "Mymensinghira Mymenshing’e Bhago." That was my only
> concern - someday others will realize that. But will that be too late
> then?
I did mention (in my first response to your post) and in a previous
debate with Dr. Jaffor Ullah that I am opposed to further political
rearrangement of India. Whether India is one nation or a million nations
is not of much interest to me (it is an arcane issue). I only feel that
political rearrangments of countries like India carry unacceptable
costs. Please try to recall that Dr. Jaffor Ullah was proposing
something which was quite similar to what Dr. Rashiduzzaman is
projecting now, a breaking away of the North-Eastern part of India. I
opposed the idea then and I am opposed to the idea now. Now, I am
surprised that Dr. Jaffor Ullah is attacking Dr. Rashiduzzaman for
proposing something similar. So, I am not the one that will tell
Mymensingh people to go to Mymensingh; you are barking up the wrong
tree.
Best wishes.
--
M. Harun uz Zaman, Ph.D.
The Ohio State University
Artho-niti-bid
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There are still 10 million Hindoos who revere the Monkey, and the
Elephant and the Cow to be their God. Laws should be designed to manage
the bounds of rationality and sanity within acceptable limits. For
example, 3000 lives could be saved in a recent Indian Train accident
where the train was derailed to save a holy cow on the tracks. Should
we called the train operator Stupid ? The extsting laws should be able
to manage adequately such superstition and ignorance based Hindoo
stupidity.
If you want to dispute such belief and the belief like Sylheti
> Raja Gobinda Chandra’s transformation into a humongous Gojjar fish,
> please go to the 45,000 villages. But what will you call when a
> national magazine calls only Krishna a WOMANIZER? Who are the real
> targets?
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The Bengali Hindoos are not only the Real but the desirable target.
They should either migrate for good to India or jump in the Bay of
Bengal, imagining in Good Faith that they have taken their religious
plunge into the Ganges (since Ganges flow in the Bay of Bengal and is
a good substitute for it because it isn't available in Bangladesh).
By doing so, they both earn Nirvana for themselves and relieve all the
Bengali Muslims from having to accomodate them.
> 2. Does such act qualify for prosecution under the existing Blasphemy
> Law?
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Getting rid of the Bengali Hindooos is never considered a blasphemy.
Narayan : If you are a "Naar-O Narayan-er Upashok" or devotee of an
Idol, you should leave Bangladesh and "Holiday" alone.
The "Weekly Holiday" Enterprise, for your very kind information and
the kind information of all in this public forum was Originally
Sponsored and Published by the Muslim Zamindars of Baliadi for the
consumption of All Bangladeshis. They are not meant to be a watered down
version of the "Daily Teligraph" or the "Ananda Bazar Patrika" that the
lower class in Bangladesh often use when they run out of toilet paper.
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> 3. Are you prepared to demand prosecution in a public forum?
> 4. Why such behaviors escape the attention of all the three
heavyweight
> Zamans of Bangladesh when they resort to journalism? Selective
> amnesia, I suppose!
>
> C. Aug 15, 1975 EXCESSES Issue
>
> 1. On that fateful night about twenty unarmed men women and children
> were assassinated in cold blood. When the little boy Russell was
> bleeding to death out of bullet wounds and asked for water, Major
> Dalim’s Jawans returned with more slugs (and slur too!), not water.
> Mr. Enayetullah Khan calls it merely "EXCESSES." Do you agree?
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What do you expect Dalim to serve the Bharatia "Kaambol Chors" ?
"Amrita" prepared by Hanuman for Raja Ram ? Or did you expect Dalim
to abduct Infant Priyanka for giving blow-jobs to Prince Russell ?
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> pigs do not
> lay their calves in West Bengal?
***********
But Hanumans do.
************
In fact, both Mir Zafar and Miran
> were West Bengalis. So was Umichand.
*****************
So was Former President Chief Justice Abdus Sattar, Hussain Muhammad
Ershad, and the rotten Hinducized products of the Muslim stocks of
West Bengal who formed their preferences under a situation of forced
coexistence with the Hindoos. Their manner are still Hindoo manners
and they have failed to adapt to Bangladesh. These are still the only
Mir Zafars in Bangladesh that continue to relive their Hindoo
experiences within a Muslim state and are protectors of the indigenous
Hanumans in Bangladesh.
It is also a fact that good
> individuals like Haji Mohammed Mohsin and Kazi Nazrul Islam were the
> product of West Bengal.
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Calcutta was the center of undivided India and undivided Bengal. So
before Bangladesh came into existence, it supplied us with the
necessary toilet paper, so that we need not use kala-pata as per Hindoo
ritual. Thus the center of civil life was focused on and controlled by
Calcutta and it's Lota Parading Dadas. Whether you were a Haji or Paji,
or whether you were Paan-Biri-wala or Kazi Hazrul Islam, it mattered
little as long as you culturally, and socially embraced Hindooism and
all it's Hanumanic manifestations from using Kala-pata instead of toilet
paper or singing Kirtaan and Brahma Sangeet.
to shit instead of
Like wise, someday people of Bangladesh will
> pay due honor to martyrs like Dhirendra Nath Datta, Ranada Prasad
Saha,
> Trailokya Nath Chakraborty, Tegra, Pritilata and thousands of others
> unsung heroes.
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Please send the Dhaka Municipal Corporation with more Bengali Hindoo
names of Martyrs. Since they so frequently run out of names to name the
newly constructed Public Toilets, the names that you mention above
will be honored with our Public Toilet. So that, every time when a
day laborer or a Rikshaw Puller in Dhaka pees, his urine can flow more
clearly while looking at the picture of Trailokya Nath Chakraborty,
Tegra, Pritilata engraved on the toilet walls.
*****garbage snipped***********************
*******Arthonitibid.
--
Ananda Lok-e, Mongol-o Aalok-e,
Ri-Doy-A, Satya Sundar-o.
-- Sir Rabindranath Tagore in "Gitanjali"
"Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty --
That's All, Ye know on earth, and
All Ye need to know."
-- John Keats in "Ode on a Grecian Urn".
mwz...@my-deja.com
[Mr. Narayan Gupta, I thought I share the following article "COPY-CAT
TERROR' with the readers which I reprinted from the OUTLOOK, an
outstanding Indian Weekly. Mr. N. Gupta, I double checked with Dr.
Mohammad Rashiduzzaman if NITIN A. GOKHALE is his assumed name. I also
asked him point blank if he is the actual author of the following
article on Kamtapuris' separatist quest under an assumed name. His
answer was in the negative. I also asked him if he had drawn any
information, as indicated by Asad Khan,for his comments on Kamtapuris
in his ( by now much maligned at your behest) article "Bangladesh and
the Separatists Quest Across the Border," by M. Rashiduzzaman, HOLIDAY,
January 12, 2001) He answered affirmately. What do you say, Mr. Narayan
Gupta? Is Nitin A. Gokhale from Siliguri a collaborator or an anti-
Indian journalist? What about OUTLOOK? Is it an anti-Indian Weekly
Magazine? What about the EDITOR of OUTLOOK? Is he or she an anti-Indian
or reactionary journalist? What do you say, Mr. Narayan Gupta?
Respectfully, W.Zaman Manik, January 31, 2001]
[Reprinted from OUTLOOK, December 11, 2001]
Copy-Cat Terror
Militants in the state borrow tactics, training and arms from other
outfits in surrounding areas.
Nitin A. Gokhale In Siliguri
Tea planters in North Bengal are a worried lot today—scared for their
lives. For about a decade now they have been helplessly watching their
counterparts in neighbouring Assam waging a seemingly losing battle
with various militant outfits. But now trouble is knocking at their
doors too.
The year 2000 has brought them face to face with a new reality—at least
two new militant outfits have emerged in the state in the recent past
and they are adopting the same terror tactics as those employed by
insurgents in Assam and the rest of the northeast. Not surprisingly,
the ‘chicken's neck', the narrow corridor linking north Bengal and the
northeast, is fast turning into a hot-bed of militancy, sending panic
waves in the corridors of power in West Bengal and Sikkim.
A worried Buddhadev Bhattacharyya has decided to personally visit
North Bengal to take stock of the law and order situation, a crucial
task given that elections are just six months away.
And there are enough reasons for this panic. Consider this: l The
Kamatapur Liberation Organisation (klo), a fledgling outfit which wants
a separate Kamatapur state carved out of Bengal, has targeted tea
garden owners and rich businessmen for their massive extortion drives.
l The decade-old Gorkha Liberation Organisation (glo), which was lying
low till now, has become proactive and has enlisted the help of Naga
militants to train its cadres.
l Two banned outfits based in Assam, the United Liberation Front of
Asom (ulfa) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (ndfb), under
pressure from security forces there, are increasingly using Siliguri in
West Bengal to travel in and out of Bhutan where they have several
hideouts.
l Intelligence reports suggest that isi-backed Islamic militant groups
see North Bengal as a region where they can potentially foment trouble.
The reports are damning, if not scary. According to intelligence
sources, at least 60 klo cadres have been trained in ulfa camps in the
Kalikhola area of neighbouring Bhutan. Indeed, the klo has upped its
ante to make its presence felt. At the same time, organisations like
the Kamatapur People's Party (kpp) whose militant arm is the klo, and
the All Kamatapur Students Union (aksu) have launched an agitation for
a separate Kamatapur homeland, adding to the chaos. Says an
intelligence official: "The situation in North Bengal is becoming
critical with each passing day and it is likely to worsen in the months
to come." On November 28, for instance, two kpp activists were killed
when police opened fire to break a siege by a mob resisting a security
raid and the arrest of a teenage girl. Police had raided a village in
Siliguri sub-division in search of kpp activists. Four people were
arrested and sent to the police station in Phasidewa. One of them was
16-year-old Sujala Singha, who was picked up for resisting her
brother's arrest. Although those arrested were not klo activists,
police say that there is no difference between kpp and klo. Says
Darjeeling district SP Sanjoy Chander: "Evidence suggests that the
dividing line between the kpp, the aksu and the klo has become very
thin. They are one and the same organisation."
Those demanding a separate state have already identified the districts
to be carved out from North Bengal. These include: Cooch Behar,
Jalpaiguri, Malda, North and South Dinapur and the plains of Darjeeling
district. And their three main demands are: creation of a separate
state, inclusion of Kamatapuri language in the Eighth Schedule of the
Constitution and propagation of Kamatapuri language and culture through
All India Radio and Doordarshan.
In fact, the kpp movement for a separate state has gained momentum in
the past three years. {Reprinted from OUTLOOK/India. Com]
In article <94qt4e$r0j$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
naray...@my-deja.com wrote:
> My gut reaction to Rashiduzzaman’s article in Holiday
>
> The Rashiuzzaman's garbiticle (garbage + article) that was published
in
> Mr. Enayetullah Khan's stenchy mouth piece of Jan 12, 2001 issue
> surprised none.
>
> Remember the dogs of the famous Hounds of Baskerville? That the dogs
> did not bark when it should have helped to resolve the case. Here
too,
> only the street dogs did not bark in the fateful days of 1971. What
> more convincing
> evidence is wanted of them? A Mahmud Ali or a "Raja" Tridib Roy have
> at least the guts to admit that they did and still do lick the
Masters'
> boots.
>
> I believe Mr. Zaman has earned at least a Doctoral degree somehow and
> have learned the mastery of licking Masters' boots without being
easily
> recognized. When it becomes obvious, he adopts the tactics of soiling
> the throwing pie at the nemesis of masters'. Thus, anything Indian is
> his target. He can paint Indian landscape with only one brush - that
of
> F.M. Sam Maneckshaw and Gen. Aurara who assisted the thugs away with
> heads bend up to knees. He is the same analyst, in his quest to be a
> Kuldip Nayar or a M. J. Akbar, tried to scuttle the CHT Peace treaty
> and the Water Treaty with India. He announced that these treaties
were
> the result of intense "Goading" by the big brother India. Any proof
for
> such assertion? What proof, has he not heard the rumor at the
Gandaria
> neighborhood?
>
> Now in his latest thoughtful analysis, no better than the write-ups of
> Khoir Khans and Nayeb Alis, asserted that the eastern region of India
> will disintegrate and there is a security risk of Bangladesh itself.
> Thus "WATCH OUT." Get armed, make alliance with the pariah Islamic
> republics like Pakistan and the Talibanis. Result? Consolidation of
> reactionary forces of the young Bangladesh. Chase out outspoken
writers
> and journalists, blast bombs at rallies of secular parties, spread
> rumors and sow disaffection among various religious and ethnic groups
> who are fairly well dealt by the present administration.
>
> In article <94nu5k$8i3$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
> asad...@my-deja.com wrote:
> > Holiday, January 12, 2001
> >
> > Bangladesh and the Separatists quest across the border
> >
> > M. Rashiduzzaman
> >
> > Not yet a catastrophic display of separatist bloodletting, but the
> > roiling of the new Kamatpur (Koch-Rajbongshis) Liberation
Organisation
> > (KLO) and the nearly forgotten Gorkha movement are sending tremors
in
> > the Indian Northeast, and beyond. The Kamatpuris want a separate
state
> > consisting of six districts — Malda, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur,
> > Darjheeling, Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar in West Bengal. Their
militant
> > front, the KLO, promised to "fight for independence of the Kamatpuri
> > people". The police arrested about 200 Kamatpuri activists in the
last
> > few weeks; several people were killed followed by rallies and
strikes.
> > But they were not the only full-throated advocates for separate
> > homeland. The Gorkha Liberation Organisation (GIO), nearly lying low
> > for years, recently stepped up its activities.
> >> Rest of it deleted for brevity<<
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
>
In article <94vcid$bfr$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
naray...@my-deja.com wrote: