Kamal Uddin Siddiqui

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Kamal Uddin Siddiqui
কামাল উদ্দিন সিদ্দিকী
Kamal Siddiqui in 2006.JPG
Siddiqui in 2006
NationalityBangladeshi
OccupationEconomist

Kamal Uddin Siddiqui, is a Bangladeshi economist and social scientist. He is faculty member of Monash University, [1]

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In 1971, he participated in the Liberation War of Bangladesh. A career civil servant, he served as the principal secretary to Prime Minister Khaleda Zia until 2006. [2] He was nominated by Bangladesh for election to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, and served from 2005 to 2009. [3] [4] He was, until 2006, chief editor of the Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, the first volumes of which were published in 2008 by the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. [5]

Career

Bangladesh's war of liberation commenced on 25 March 1971. At that time, Siddiqui was serving as the sub-divisional officer (SDO) of Norail. He quit his job and walked to India to participate in the war against the Pakistani army. After the establishment of Bangladesh on 16 December 1971, he returned home and was appointed as the deputy commissioner (DC) and district magistrate of the Khulna District.[ citation needed ]

Since February 2005, he has been serving as the chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child of United Nations High Commission for Human Rights. His achievements during the last three years include the release of a large number of children from jails, establishment of nurseries in prisons and safe homes, raising the age of criminal liability and converting correction centres for children into development centres. Recognized as a champion of children by the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh in its landmark judgement in a child rights case in 2003, owing to these activities. [6] [ failed verification ]

In October 2006, Siddiqui was terminated from his position as the principal secretary of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia after the caretaker government assumed power. [7] His contractual appointed was extended five times by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, a record for the civil administration of Bangladesh. [7] He went on the run after a number of corruption cases were filed against him. [8]

Research

While teaching at Monash University, Siddiqui co-authored a book on diplomacy which was published in 2009. [9]

Siddiqui coined the term "cocktail ideology" to characterise the cultural profile of the Bangladeshi people in the 21st century. A "cocktail ideology", combining the retrogressive interpretation of religion and tradition with vulgar elements of the so-called modernity, has emerged in many developing countries since the 1960s and the population of Bangladesh, among other developing courtiers, reflects uneasy and tense co-existence of these two components. Women and middle-aged men are, in general, the bearers of tradition and religious orthodoxy, while the younger generation tends to carry the flag for "decadent modernity". It has been found that the poor tend to be more affected by this "cocktail ideology" than any other class of society. [4]

Social formation in Dhaka City is a study which takes stock of the social formation of Dhaka city as it has evolved in the latter half of the 20th century. Kamal Siddiqui has carried out this research in association with Sayeda Rowshan Qadir, Sitara Alamgir and Sayeedul Huq. [10]

Publications

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  2. ↑ "Court orders to return passports of BD Foods chairman". The Daily Star. 16 February 2009. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
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  4. 1 2 "Deadly Sins of Cocktail Ideology and the Vicious Cycle of Poverty in Developing Countries" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2009. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
  5. ↑ "Encyclopedia section of Asiatic Society website". Archived from the original on 26 August 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2011.
  6. ↑ "Towards a Sustainable Strategy of Child Poverty Reduction" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
  7. 1 2 "Chief Adviser Swings Into Action". The Daily Star. 31 October 2006. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  8. ↑ "US cable: Tarique phoned for JMB leader Khamaru's release". Dhaka Tribune. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
  9. ↑ Monash University description of Siddiqui book
  10. ↑ Zingel, Wolfgang-Peter (November 1990). "Kamal Siddiqui, Sayeda Rowshan Qadir, Sitara Alamgir, Sayeedul Huq: Social formation in Dhaka City. A study in third world urban sociology" (PDF). Internationales Asienforum. 21 (3–4): 369–372.
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