This book, by Q M Jalal Khan, is a detailed account of what its writer calls the divided Bangladesh, where there has been a near-total suppression and extermination of the political opposition, BNP. It is a recount of the process governing the country through a process of politicization of all the branches of the state.Bangladesh is now divided as “our” country and “their” country. This division has been solely created by the critically close to authoritarian and exclusionary, belligerent and BNPhobic forces.
Being a descriptive narrative of the regime’s abuses of state tools and agents, the volume launches a crusade against the ‘denial of moral, political, and economic corruption and its obstruction of the democratic rights of the opposition.’
Q M Jalal Khan is a professor of English teaching in the Arabian Gulf. He has a (Fulbright) MA from American University in Washington, D.C., and a PhD from New York University.
