Sonar Bangla - Distant Thunder From A Rising Nation
Book Details
Author(s)Kurian Pampadi
PublisherVisual Possibility
ISBN / ASINB015ONZANO
ISBN-13978B015ONZAN4
Sales Rank2,830,226
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
SONAR BANGLA is an investigation into how Bangladesh can survive as a secular democratic entity under the shadow of religious extremism.
Bangladesh was born in blood and tears after a war of liberation against dictatorship of military-ruled Pakistan that led to its transformation and christening as an independent nation in 1971.
Dhaka, the capital, has the reputation of having the world’s largest number of cycle rickshaws, 400, 000 of them in the latest reckoning, symbolizing how its people are one of the poorest in the world.
And of late the country has emerged as the third largest exporter of garments in the world. A Chinese owned garment factory in Dhaka employs 40,000 women, to make it the largest in the country. Once up on time, it produced Dacca Muslin, the cotton fabric that bewitched the English colonizers.
A land locked country in the north east if the Indian sub continent, Bangladesh has five times the size of the tiny state of Kerala in the South western tip of India and a population of 161 million in 2014.
With the fourth largest Muslim population in the world (90% of the total), one can see purdah-clad women in the forefront of sterilization camps. Sure, they are battling it out on population.
The investigation zeroes into a nation determined to erase a past when its national heroes like its first Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman and successive military dictators were assassinated and yet survived as a democracy.
It hanged 15 leaders of the extreme Jama at Islami for war crimes for aiding and abetting the Pakistan army during the liberation war that is said to have cost the life of 3 million people.
Bangladesh is a beautiful country with the rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Brahmaputra, Meghna and Padma weaving its sinews into the open mouth of the irrepressible Bay of Bengal. A must read for political students as well as those who want to want to make it to the tiny nation as a backpacker.
About the author
Kurian Pampadi, is an award winning journalist in Kottayam, Kerala State on India. Covering 1976 Montreal Olympics as the first accredited reporter from his native State of Kerala was the big break in his over 50-years career as a media person.
He won the 1980 Statesman National Award for reporting about Sister Josna, a Catholic nun of the American congregation, Sisters of Notredam, leading the indigenous people of the State of Bihar in Eastern India in their struggle against exploitation and injustice.
The other two books to his credit are ‘Two Germanies’, (1978) and ‘In the Land of the Lions’ (1980).
He is also a compulsive traveler of the East and the West including North America, China and Japan not to speak of all the South and South East Asian countries.
Sonar Bangla comes from an intrepid journalist whose investigation into a network of human organ trafficking brought him the Kerala’s State Government’s Best Reporter of the Year award in 1987.
Bangladesh was born in blood and tears after a war of liberation against dictatorship of military-ruled Pakistan that led to its transformation and christening as an independent nation in 1971.
Dhaka, the capital, has the reputation of having the world’s largest number of cycle rickshaws, 400, 000 of them in the latest reckoning, symbolizing how its people are one of the poorest in the world.
And of late the country has emerged as the third largest exporter of garments in the world. A Chinese owned garment factory in Dhaka employs 40,000 women, to make it the largest in the country. Once up on time, it produced Dacca Muslin, the cotton fabric that bewitched the English colonizers.
A land locked country in the north east if the Indian sub continent, Bangladesh has five times the size of the tiny state of Kerala in the South western tip of India and a population of 161 million in 2014.
With the fourth largest Muslim population in the world (90% of the total), one can see purdah-clad women in the forefront of sterilization camps. Sure, they are battling it out on population.
The investigation zeroes into a nation determined to erase a past when its national heroes like its first Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman and successive military dictators were assassinated and yet survived as a democracy.
It hanged 15 leaders of the extreme Jama at Islami for war crimes for aiding and abetting the Pakistan army during the liberation war that is said to have cost the life of 3 million people.
Bangladesh is a beautiful country with the rivers Ganga, Yamuna, Brahmaputra, Meghna and Padma weaving its sinews into the open mouth of the irrepressible Bay of Bengal. A must read for political students as well as those who want to want to make it to the tiny nation as a backpacker.
About the author
Kurian Pampadi, is an award winning journalist in Kottayam, Kerala State on India. Covering 1976 Montreal Olympics as the first accredited reporter from his native State of Kerala was the big break in his over 50-years career as a media person.
He won the 1980 Statesman National Award for reporting about Sister Josna, a Catholic nun of the American congregation, Sisters of Notredam, leading the indigenous people of the State of Bihar in Eastern India in their struggle against exploitation and injustice.
The other two books to his credit are ‘Two Germanies’, (1978) and ‘In the Land of the Lions’ (1980).
He is also a compulsive traveler of the East and the West including North America, China and Japan not to speak of all the South and South East Asian countries.
Sonar Bangla comes from an intrepid journalist whose investigation into a network of human organ trafficking brought him the Kerala’s State Government’s Best Reporter of the Year award in 1987.
