IN BANGLADESH鈥橲 political terrain, there is a philosophical puzzle that would have bothered Greek philosopher, Aristotle: how does a country that was founded on the highest ideals of self-determination end up fighting against the loss of the very principles that made it possible?
Academics said at a discussion on Tuesday that writings on academic, philosopher and essayist Sardar Fazlul Karim were not adequate...
IT WAS the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel who taught us: 鈥榃e learn from history that we do not learn from history.鈥� What an all-encompassing pithy remark, for all time to come! It was right yesterday, is right today and will unfortunately remain right tomorrow. If Sheikh Hasina had believed in it, she could have remained a venerated...
