The wounded land

the long version

The book is a compendium of articles and columns which cover a wide variety of pressing themes mostly in context of contemporary Bangladesh. The subjects, among others, include unique single-topic issues like Language Movement and the Liberation War, global cutting-edge concerns like terrorism, religious militancy, and war crimes and crucial national events and pressing trends like the post- liberation political transitions and tensions, the rule of Alliance and Great Alliance Governments, Caretaker hegemony, Army interventions, recession, price- hike etc. The book has been written in excellent English. The readers can savour it with obvious literary relish, and finally be left with a sense of living history.