Ramananda Sengupta's piece is good but nothing new too. NRBs have been waging a principled polemic against the BNP-Jamat bonhomie. President Zia and Ershad purchased intellectuals that were known as Maoists. The late Enayetullah Khan, founder editor of Holiday, Maoist mouthpiece and rapidby anti-Soviet and anti-Indian, became an ambassador. He was once associated with the American Center.He founded the New Age daily too as its editor too. Sankar Ray