Letters From Europe : An Asian Perspective 2000-2014

Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam

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In the eurocentric culture of the West, as Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam, the author of this book who had been a regular columnist, sees that people are often blinded by a false sense of superiority and an obsession with skin colour. Everybody wants to be “whiter than white”. Every issue involving ethnicity, race, class and gender is looked at from this angle. Chaklader Alam observes that European colonialism, undoubtedly, is at the root of this very narrow intellectual perspective of the world. It has given rise to a simplistic oppositional thinking process which uses a binary method of “dividing the world and its people into hard and fast categories like “good versus evil” or “civilized versus savages”. Professor Paula S. Rothenberg wrote in a slightly different context, “this arrogant approach carries with it the rationale for the unequal distribution of power, privilege and opportunity that characterizes society”. The author has a completely different worldview. In his opinion, there are no hard and fast categories. Everything is constantly changing, adapting to new circumstances and evolving, hopefully for the better. We believe that this book will arouse curiosity among the readers, provoke them to ask questions and to seek answers from many different sources.

Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam

Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1935. He was educated in Bangladesh (University of Dhaka) and in Spain (Instituto Hispano-Arabe de Cultura and the University of Alcala de Henares). He is a life-member (fellow) of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a retired member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of England. Chaklader Alam retired from his professional career in 1992. Since then he has been writing essays and opinion pieces for newspapers and journals in Bangladesh, Spain and the United States. For many years, he worked as a regular columnist for The Daily Star of Bangladesh. During that period he also wrote in The Independent and The Bangladesh Observer. In Spain, he has contributed regularly to El Adelantado de Segovia (in Spanish) and El Pais (in English) Because of his academic, professional and journalistic background, Chaklader Alam has been deeply exposed to diverse cultures and faiths. All his life, he has worked very hard to promote better understanding between the East and the West. He is the co-author (with Ambassador Arturo Perez) of a recently published book in Spanish on Bangladesh called 'Bangladeshy (de repente) España'.

Title	Letters From Europe : An Asian Perspective 2000-2014
Author	Chaklader Mahboob-ul Alam
Publisher	Pathak Shamabesh
Number of Pages	220
Language	English (US)
Category	Culture Society Bangladeshi Economics Contemporary World
First Published	SEP 2021