Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation

Quotations of Abdur Razzaq

“Progressive politics is politics which helps broadening the base of power. We don’t have yet a society anywhere in the world which bases its power structure so that the entire population may claim to have an equal share in the exercise of it.” “The most abiding product of the genius of a people, its language, is neither the product of labour in isolation or unshared by other people.” “The state of the nation, the surface view of it, is what the articulate gives it out to be. The spokesman is the intellectual, the intelligentsia, the educated class.” “We are, of course, all of us, determined to do only what is good for the people – on both sides of the barricade.” “The business of policy makers in government or outside is to take note of the unmistakable wishes of the people and act on it and not to deliver homilies on the merit of Arcadian paradise.” “The state of the nation, the quality of it, is in the recognition and continuance of the struggle. The nation that has no struggle to carry on either because it finds the odds against itself too heavy or because it believes itself to haveRead More

Message from the DG

Please let me extend a very warm welcome to all visitors to the Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Foundation web site. The Foundation was formed in 2002 and was named after National Professor Abdur Razzaq, a legendary educator and an inspirational mentor to legions of Dhaka University students. It was dedicated to the proposition, which eventually became its vision statement, that it will seek “to become a premier institution of intellectual excellence engaged in the pursuit of learning and scholarship on issues relevant to Bangladesh from the perspective of the social sciences, arts and the humanities”. The Gyantapas Abdur Razzaq Bidyapeeth came into existence in 2015 to become a library initially built around his rich and eclectic personal collection, but is being augmented with subscriptions to current magazines and journals, addition of new books, and the incorporation of contemporary technological assets. While membership to the Bidyapeeth is required, all its services are available free of cost. The Foundation expects to contribute to creating a more enlightened intellectual environment in the country, to encouraging research and scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities, and to providing the resources, as well as a welcoming milieu, for those seeking knowledge, scholarly companionship, and diversityRead More

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