But it was already set upon a different trajectory. In colonial Dhaka, the university might have seemed to be, as far as literary culture was concerned, an outpost of Kolkata in the backwaters of East Bengal. We can start by identifying three historical periods: Colonial Post-Partition and Post-Liberation. Has Dhaka University played a comparable role in the creation of a Bangladeshi literary culture? Let us examine the record. It gave birth to Young Bengal and the so-called Bengal Renaissance. If we go back to the origins of modern Bengali literary culture in Kolkata, we realise the pivotal significance of the Hindu College (subsequently Presidency College, and now a university), the first institution of modern, western education for Indians. This is the view from Kolkata that Dhaka will reject as both myopic and blinkered.įor all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. In discussing "Literary Culture in Bengal", in Sheldon Pollock's anthology "Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia", Sudipta Kaviraj argues that Bengali literary culture excludes Bengali Muslims and their writings as alien, and concludes that modern Bengali literary culture is a "Hindu affair". It involves recognition of the role of socio-political and economic forces as well as non-literary cultural factors in shaping literary practices. Literary culture implies more than the aggregate of literary works. I have been asked instead to highlight the role of the university in the development of Bangladeshi literary culture. I will not go into the history of the Liberation War in which so many of us played small roles-it has been written about by many and will be written about by many more. When I went up in 1969, both the campus and the country at large were convulsed by the onset of the mass upsurge that, within a couple of years, would deliver a blood-soaked, new-born nation-state. We must not be naïve in thinking that Communist China wants to operate in the modern world order and cooperate with other world powers.I have already spent the biblically allotted three score years and ten on this planet, and of these, roughly two-thirds have been associated with Dhaka University, first as a student and then as an academic. There is no point in sacrificing our interests for the hope of compromise with a country that will never live up to its end of any agreement, is openly committing genocide against millions of Uyghur Muslims, and continuously threatens not only America’s security, but that of our allies in the Asia-Pacific region.Ĭommunist China is focused on one thing – world domination through oppression and communist rule. We need to cut Communist China off from the American economy that it relies so heavily upon to feed its oppression machine. must demonstrate America’s strength and resolve, and our commitment to our allies. This is where our legislative efforts must begin.
Since being elected to the Senate, I have sponsored and supported more than 40 pieces of legislation focused on addressing the security of our supply chains, holding Communist China fully responsible for its disgusting human rights abuses and genocide against Uyghur Muslims, enhancing our ability to innovate and develop new technology, and countering Beijing’s unfair trade practices.
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