Nice DS article

http://www.thedailystar.net/2005/04/08/d50408020330.htm

A brilliant article by Zafar Sobhan. Apart from the little bit of patronising at the end of the article that the DS engages in, I think this piece is spot on.

The interesting thing about this is we are not the first country to experience this transformation, nor the second, or even the third. Countries from Egypt to Pakistan to Malaysia have seen the same wave of Islamist revival, and they were all because a significant segment of the population felt that the government was performing at unacceptable levels.

And by "government", I mean the current one, the one before this, and the one before that, and so on... 1971, 1975, 1991 - were all great chances to start with a clean slate. Unfortunate are we indeed that successive politicians throughout the last three decades have come heavy with erasers, and light with pretty much anything else.