Time allowed—3 hours
Full marks-100
[N.B. — The figures in the right margin indicate full marks. Answer all the questions.]

l. Write an essay on any one of the following:— 30
(a) Green Revolution;
(b) Dreams;
(c) Need for consensus in Nation Building: A Bangladesh Perspective.

2. Write an essay on any one of the following topics according to the given guidelines:— 30
a) Emancipation of Women:

(i) Introduction
(ii) What you mean by emancipation of women
(iii) Why emancipation of women is crucially important for society in general
(iv) The status of women in the developed world
(v) The status of women in the underdeveloped and developing societies
(vi) Why emancipation of women is an imperative in Bangladesh
(vii) Conclusion

(b) Political Violence:

(i) What you mean by violence
(ii) When violence becomes ‘political’
(iii) Its manifestations
(iv) Circumstances leading to political violence
(v) Reasons advanced for and against it
(vi) Possible effects of continued political violence on the body-politic ‘
(vii) Political violence in the Bangladesh perspective
(viii) Conclusion

3. (a) Write a letter to a friend expressing your anxieties over forces threatening to harm the cherished ideals of our Liberation War. 20

Or,

(b) Write a letter to the editor of a newspaper about slums in every city of Bangladesh and solution to the problem.

4. Write an objective report on any one of the following:— 20
(a) Fire on a garment factory
(b) A vote centre
(c) Cyber cafe