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THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2025
Going back to Bangabandhu’s founding principles helping our current progress: Radwan

Bangladesh

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21 September, 2020, 07:50 pm
Last modified: 21 September, 2020, 07:57 pm

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Going back to Bangabandhu’s founding principles helping our current progress: Radwan

"Newly launched policy magazine WhiteBoard will always give 'balanced objective and clear messages' to the policymakers," said Radwan

TBS Report
21 September, 2020, 07:50 pm
Last modified: 21 September, 2020, 07:57 pm
Going back to Bangabandhu’s founding principles helping our current progress: Radwan

Bangladesh's development in the last ten years has a lot to do with going back to its founding principles, said Bangabandhu's grandson and Centre for Research & Information's Trustee Radwan Mujib Siddiq on Monday during the online launching of the policy magazine 'WhiteBoard'.

Radwan, also the magazine's editor in chief, added that the policy of the current government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of 'leaving no one behind' was a policy of Bangabandhu. 

"Newly launched policy magazine WhiteBoard will always give 'balanced objective and clear messages' to the policymakers," said Radwan.

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As revealed by Radwan, WhiteBoard will create space for the brightest minds not just in Bangladesh but for the Bangladeshis making a difference abroad and being capable of guiding the country in overcoming the challenges it is dealing with.

The grandson of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman reflected on the vision of the magazine, launched by the ruling Awami League's research wing CRI, which will cover the gamut of policy issues in Bangladesh.

"We are always open to our primary audience, which is the young generation," said Radwan, valuing youths as the driving force of this magazine.

Syed Mafiz Kamal, co-editor of the magazine, moderated the event while Samia Huq, Department of Economics and Social Science, BRAC University took part in the event.

Samia is also a member of the Editorial advisory board.

Reasoning why this is a timely initiative, Radwan wrote in the editor's note of the magazine, "Why have we launched this new initiative? Because Bangladesh is growing rapidly and confronting new challenges, with young people at the helm."

"Bangladesh is set to be among the world's top 30 economies by 2030. But there is a lack of data-driven and coherent analysis of what is happening in our country. This is where WhiteBoard steps in. Aimed at students and young professionals, policymakers, and practitioners, both at home and abroad, WhiteBoard will be the go-to resource for the latest commentary on Bangladesh."

"We promote evidence-based analysis and incisive debate on topics ranging from the economy to gender-based violence, from tech innovation to youth employment. Nothing is off the table," said Radwan.

The first issue brings forth Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's policies that outlined the nation's progress in the post-liberation war-torn country.

As revealed by CRI sources, this issue debunks the myths about Bangabandhu's administration -- created and disseminated following the assassination of Bangabandhu and 16 of his family members in 1975.

The policies and methodologies of Bangabandhu, often lost under the weight of his other charismatic accomplishments such as fiery speeches and pro-liberation leadership, do deserve a chance to be heard by modern policymakers, youths.

Radwan added that all the content developers of this magazine are endowed with a track record of possessing ample knowledge of the vision.

A total of eight contributions were made to the first issue by eminent personalities including renowned economist Rehman Sobhan, humanitarian activist Julian Francis, and journalist Syed Badrul Ahsan, Professor Shams Rahman, and political scientist Rounaq Jahan.

The future editions of WhiteBoard will delve into crucial matters of national policymaking from an angle that usual advocacy groups and donor agencies have left a void. During the webinar, Radwan Mujib also disclosed that the upcoming issues of the magazine will cover Covid-19 and Bangladesh-50.

In a detailed interview published in the magazine, Syed Badrul Ahsan shed light on the common misperceptions about the formation of the Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Awami League (BaKSAL) by Bangabandhu. 

Recounting how Bangabandhu had to build everything from scratch in a war-ravaged country, Julian Francis wrote, "During the war, all communication, social and industrial infrastructure had been targeted. Transportation networks had been destroyed – bridges, roads, culverts, railways, and waterways."

"The challenges before Mujib were thus huge, especially in the early phase of the reconstruction process. The government took up this Herculean task along with its development partners. It was estimated that the reintegration of refugees and the internally displaced would require the construction of 43 million houses."

There are many developments the youths can see today but what they don't know is that the seed of those developments was sown and nurtured by Bangabandhu and those futuristic policies have come alive through the pages of this magazine.

The unveiling of this chapter is a tribute to the Father of the Nation on his birth centenary, and the magazine will be a lighthouse for policymakers who will be able to model their policies on his vision, said CRI on Monday.

"We are launching WhiteBoard because we believe we will bring in new ideas into the policy-sphere of our country; the quality of our magazine should speak for itself," said Syed Mafiz Kamal, co-editor, WhiteBoard.

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