Professional colleagues in Bangladesh, especially the seniors, used to call me a pioneer in reporting on AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) because many of the breaking news stories in this arena were done by me in the late eighties of…
Tag: Glorious days
Glorious days: Waste dumping remains a never ending story
Mostafa Kamal Majumder Despite the official announcement from the highest level of the government of rejection of their proposal for the import of toxic industrial wastes in the guise of generating cheap electricity for a caustic chlorine plant, the waste…
Glorious days: Campaign blocking waste import had life risks
Mostafa Kamal Majumder My lookout for news stories landed me on a move by some greedy people coming up with a formal proposal submitted to the government in October 1988 to import toxic wastes camouflaging it under the cover of…
Glorious days: New Nation escaped internecine Ittefaq feud
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The publication of The New Nation remained uninterrupted and its journalists and employees worked in unbelievable safety for one full year when the proprietor and the members of his family were unable to enter the Ittefaq Bhaban,…
Glorious Days: Dream housing society of Dhaka’s Journalists
Mostafa Kamal Majumder From the early eighties I started getting offers to contest elections of the Jatiya Press Club Managing Committee. I always sidetracked such offers because I felt I had little time to spare in Press Club activities. I…
Glorious days: Walkout, division at first sitting of 1991 JS
Mostafa Kamal Majumder After the election of the 1991 Parliament on 27 February that year following nine long years of movement that toppled the rule of President Hussain Muhammad Ershad, private members belonging to the BNP, the Awami League, especially…
Glorious Days: Experience of working with senior bureaucrats
Mostafa Kamal Majumder When The New Nation became financial stable by the year 2007, the proprietor of the paper started experimenting with CSP cadre bureaucrats to establish themselves at its helm. They were retired secretaries to the government. I took…
Glorious days: Offer to be Press Secretary to the President
Mostafa Kamal Majumder As The New Nation became more or less self-reliant and I could respond to demands of working journalists to improve their working conditions in the paper with a mission to make it sustainable I got a phone…
Glorious days: How AL made BNP alienate JP in Parliament
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The Old Sangsad Bhaban at Nakhalpara was where I started my Parliament reporting. My seniors most of the time used to engage me to cover the question hour held at the start of sittings every day. The…
Glorious days: How a newspaper lost 14 years of web database
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The New Nation was at a high trajectory in respect of its circulation through the Internet. But at least 14 years of soft copies of the paper were lost as the website from where it was available…
Glorious days: Wide DU teacher-student gap makes hit story
Mostafa Kamal Majumder I began attempting scoop news items apart from doing event-based stories and started attracting more attention of seniors and gradually made my place secure in The Bangladesh Times. One such report was on the worsening teacher-student relations…
Glorious days: Plugging in loopholes for economic baseline
Mostafa Kamal Majumder The proprietors of The New Nation did not ask me to look after the financial management of the paper. Yet I felt the burden because the journalists and general employees readily find the editor to tell of…