জাফর স্যারের পদত্যাগ ও আমার বাজিতে হেরে যাওয়া

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1. আপনার বক্তব্যে বিজ্ঞানী জাফর ইকবালকে নিয়ে বেশ কড়া সমালোচনা আছে তা বেশ ভালো কথা। এবং, এই মৌসুমে এই টপিক বেশ ভালো চলবে, সেটাও বেশ ভালোমতোই জানা। সুতরাং, ঝালমুড়ি বিক্রি করতেই পারেন – সেও মেনে নিলাম।

   কিন্তু, আপনার পুরো লেখাটার বক্তব্য স্পষ্ট নয়। গবেষক হিসেবে জাফর ইকবালকে মূল্যায়ন করেছেন আপনি। তাতে তিনি ফেল মেরেছেন – বেশ ভালো। কিন্তু, যে হেতুতে জাফর ইকবাল নিয়ে মাতামাতি, এই পদত্যাগ, বিক্ষোভ, সেই হেতুটির সঙ্গে আপনার এই লেখার প্রত্যক্ষ সংযোগ পেলাম না।

   আবার, এও হতে পারে, সিলেটবাসীর দাবীর পরোক্ষ সমর্থনেই আপনি জাফর ইকবালের ব্যর্থতাকে তুলে ধরছেন। এই মৌসুমে হট কেক বিক্রি করে আপনিও একপ্রকার চেতনার ব্যবসাই করছেন – দুঃখজনকভাবে এইটুকুই পর্যবেক্ষণ করলাম।

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   • জাফর ইকবাল স্যার জনপ্রিয় বিজ্ঞান লেখক। তার গুচ্ছ পদ্ধতি দাবী যথেষ্ট যৌক্তিক। তিনি শাবিপ্রবির কোটা প্রথারও বিরোধীতা করেছেন। কিন্তু সমস্যা হলো যখন পুরো দেশে বিসিএস পরীক্ষায় কোটা প্রথার বিরুদ্ধে আন্দোলন হচ্ছিলো তখন তিনি একেবারেই চুপ মেরে ছিলেন।
     বাংলাদেশের তরুণ সমাজের একটা বড় অংশ মনে প্রাণে বিশ্বাস করে জাফর স্যার একজন মহান এবং অতি বিশাল একজন বিজ্ঞানী। আসলে তিনি বিজ্ঞানী নন। কারণ তার জন্য গবেষণা এবং নিয়মিত সে গবেষেণার পর্যবেক্ষণ কোন আন্তজার্তিক মানের জার্নালে আসতে হবে। তিনি আসলে বিজ্ঞানের মৌলিক গবেষণার চাইতে বই লিখা, চেতনা ফেরি করা এবং ধর্ম বিদ্বেষ ছড়ানোতেই বেশি ব্যস্ত।
     জাফর স্যারের বিরুদ্বে যারা কথা বলেছেন তাদের মধ্যে তারই জিগির বন্ধু বাম, আওয়ামীলীগ উল্লেখযোগ্য। তিনি মানুষ হিসেবে নিজেই নিজেকে বির্তকিত করেছেন।

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2. ভালো লাগলো অনেক কিছু জানলাম

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3. You don’t have the ability or compitence to understand what he have done this 20 years, let alone evaluate about it. What is your educational qualification? Do you even know what research is? Did you do any kind of research ever? Any one in you 14 generation of your predecessors? Do you know in the academic world when people guide/supervise a student and the student publishes a paper that is actually the teachers publication too? Did you try to find the student’s publications under Dr. Iqbal’s supervision?

   Even if you tried, where did you do that? In PubMed and Jstore. And that demonstrate how awfully ignorant you are. Pubmed is the archival of medical papers and Jstore is that of math. None of them are Dr. Iqbal’s field of research.

   Your choice of words (chetonabadi, shahabagi) say where do you live. In the darkest cavern of ancient caveman. Dr Iqbal worked last 20 years to bring people like you in light. To show the beauty of the world, to inspire people to acquire and practice knowledge. He is successful because millions of young people are IN light now. The fact that bugs like you still live in darkness demonstrates the fact that, some people worships darkness. Darkness gives their food and power. They live on darkness.

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   • Jafar Sir has a list of publications in his own website. You dont have to search for Gold, sir is not hiding any of his esteemed research and only showing the crappy one in his own website!

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   • Do you know in the academic world when people guide/supervise a student and the student publishes a paper that is actually the teachers publication too? …………..
     if you have any of such publication link plz find it out for us…….it will help us to know him better.

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   • Iftekhar> not everyone campaigns his/her academic and professional credentials to little children. Believe me or not the guy in question here; from professional achievement point of view is miles ahead of Mr. Iqbal – miles.

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     • How many scientific publications or patents “the guy in question” has?

       Perhaps, being a “wall street guy” can make you filthy rich. But money implies nothing in scientific or academic field.

     • this is the problem with you guys. you are so angry that you don’t even bother to read what I am writing. Did I say Aniks a scientist? I said that he understands a thing or two about academic qualification.

       the fact that you say money implies nothing in science or academic field is enough for me to conclude that you probably know a very little about how academia functions. In fact money (as grant) is THE most important thing for most of the academics, which comes to you only through good publications and research, which is not at all steller for Mr. Iqbal. This is a fact, not opinion. So please don’t base your argument on this.

     • @Faham:

       1. “… the fact that you say money implies nothing in science or academic field is enough for me to conclude that you probably know a very little about how academia functions…”

       I think Iftekhar meant ‘personal wealth’, not research funding!

       2. “…In fact money (as grant) is THE most important thing for most of the academics, which comes to you only through good publications and research, which is not at all steller for Mr. Iqbal. This is a fact, not opinion. …”

       Would you care to explain the ‘fact’ mentioned above?

     • Bro…I am not sure if you ever had the opportunity to talk to a professor in a research univ about funding. From the looks of your comments, it is evident you are either not an academic in a credible university or an academic in a university where no one does research…so you have no clue

     • @aniksays:

       My questions and concerns were directed toward Faham, not to you. I would rather prefer him to step up and defend himself.

       On a side note, let us not get derailed here. Neither my affiliation, nor my credibility is relevant here. If anyone thinks of me not knowing something, he should better explain it to me like I am 5 year old kid. No need to brag about it.

       In the mean time, you may continue to assume that I ain’t nothing but a hillbilly boy. If that gives you orgasmic pleasure of your achievements and if that feeling is an absolute essential ingredient to motivate you to engage in a public forum discussion, then why not, be my guest. But If were you, I would have a little more self-respect and refrain flashing that smart-ass badge of yours.

     • Shah>
       Let’s consider this. Impact factor of Nature is 38ish. I don’t expect a bangladeshi academic to publish in a 30 impact factor journal. However, if a scientist of ANY institution fails to publish in a 5 impact factor journal for 20 long years – you have to accept he/she is not a professor material. Even technicians have better track record. Now I haven’t checked Mr. Iqbal’s publication record as thoroughly as Anik did, but it looks like he hasn’t published in a 2 impact factor journal in the last 20 years. To be brutally honest Mr. Iqbal is probably not going to get a post doctoral position in a reputed university with this record. Now I know you’d say this is Bangladesh, not enough grant etc. But hang on there are MANY Bangladeshi academics working in Bangladesh and having stellar track record even in western standard (for example Dr. Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani >http://bmpt.du.ac.bd/faculty_member/rabbani/). How come these guys do it?

       The bottom line is – if you fail to publish something significant for 20 years – you shouldn’t be in academia. You might argue that its ok for a teaching university. I give you that but CERTAINLY you are not a professor material.

   • Iftekhar, you’re indeed right. Choice of words in communication helps define one’s depth of knowledge and respect for others! The junk piece simply testifies the merit and capability of the author. If he had the credential, he would have written opinion for more known and respectable outlet. But, then, the quality of his writing suggests that it wouldn’t be published in better outlet. So, he hides his weakness in character assassination of a loving person!

     Who gives a hoot!

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4. Iftekhar, why dont you do some search and prove both me and Jafar sirs own website wrong, now that you know everything about scientific research publications. The funniest comment was when you said all students research credit goes to Jafar Sir, who bybthe way didnt publish anything credible in 20 years on the topic he teaches and works as the head of the department. No wonder you are the type of “alokito manush” he ended up creating!

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   • All knwoing ‘fahamabdus’ made an argument (what argument!) based on a fact (what fact!) and concluded that his fact is indeed a fact, not an opionion!

     Based on what evidence? This “In fact money (as grant) is THE most important thing for most of the academics, which comes to you only through good publications and research, which is not at all steller for Mr. Iqbal”?

     Very funny, indeed! থামেন একটু হাইসা লই!!

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     • @Shotto: Spot on. That was way too ridiculous.

     • When and where did I do that?

5. জাফর ইকবাল স্যারের রিসার্স লিস্ট:
   “A Technique for Measuring Parity non Conservation in Hydrogenic Atoms”, E. G. Adelberger, T. A. Trainor, E. N. Fortson, T. E. Chupp, M. Z. Iqbal and H. E. Swanson, Nucl. Inst. Meth. 179 (1981)181.
   “Study of Prototype Xenon TPC”, M. Z. Iqbal, B. G. O’Callaghan, F. Boehm, Nucl. Inst. Meth. A243 (1986) 459.
   “A Low Cost Pulse Shape Digitizer for a Time Projection Chamber”, M. Z. Iqbal and J. L. Gimlett, Nucl. Inst. Meth. A248 (1986) 434.
   “Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron Trajectories in High Pressure Xenon”, M. Z. Iqbal, B. M. G. O’Callaghan and H. T. Wong, Nuel. Inst. Meth. A253 (1987) 278.
   “The Electronics for the High Pressure Xenon Gas Time Projection Chamber”, M. Z. Iqbal, B. M. O’Callaghan, and H. T. Wong, Nucl. Inst. Meth. A263, 387 (1988).
   “An 11Gb/s optical transmission experiment using a 1540 om DFB laser with non-return-to-zero modulation and a PIN/HEMT receiver”, J. L. Gimlett, M. Z. Iqbal, J. Young, L. Curtis, R. Spicer and N. K. Cheung. Elect. Lett. 25, p 596, 1989.
   Performance of Directly Modulated DFB lasers in 10 Gb/s ASK, FSK and DPSK lightwave systems”, R. S. Vodhanel, A. F. Elrefai, M. Z. Iqbal, R. E. Wagner and J. L. Gimlett, J. Lightwave Technol, vol. 8, p 1379­, 1386, 1990.
   “An 11 Gbit/sec 260 kIn Transmission Experiment Using a Directly Modulated 1536 om DFB Laser with Two Er-Doped Fiber Amplifiers and Clock Recovery”, A. Righetti, F. Fontana, G. Delrosso, G. Grasso, M. Z. Iqbal, J. L. Gimlett, R. D. Standley, J. Young, N. K. Cheung and E. J. Tarbox. Elect. Lett.,Vol 26, No 5, pp 330­331, 1990.
   “10 to 20 Gbit/s modulation performance of 1.5 urn distributed feedback lasers for frequency-shift-keying systems”, R. S. Vodhanel, A. F. Elrefaie, R. E. Wagner, M. Z. Iqbal and J. L. Gimlett. J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 7, pp 1454-1460, 1989.
   “The Effect of Pulse Shaping on the Transmission Performance of 11 Gbit/s Lightwave Systems”, J. C. Cartledge and M. Z. Iqbal, Photonic Tech. Lett., Vol. 1, pp 334-336,1989.
   “An 11 Gb/s 151 kIn Transmission Experiment Employing a 1480 nm Pumped Erbium Doped in-line Fiber Amplifier”, M. Z. Iqbal, J. L. Gimlett, M. M. Choy, A. Yi-Yan, M. J. Andrejco, L. Curtis, M. A. Saifi, C.Lin, and N. K. Cheung. Photonic Tech. Lett., vol. 1, pp 334-336, 1989.
   “Impact of Multiple Reflection Noise in Gbit/sec Lightwave Systems with Optical Fiber Amplifiers”, J. L. Gimlett, M. Z. Iqbal, L. Curtis, and N. K. Cheung. Elect. Lett. 25, p1393, 1989.
   “Design and Construction of a High Pressure Xenon Gas TPC”, M. Z. Iqbal, H. Henrikson, L. Mitchell, B. M.G. O’Callaghan, J. Thomas and H. T-k. Wong, Nucl. Inst. Meth. A259, 459 (1987).
   Multi gigabit/sec 1.5 urn 1/4 lambda shifted DFB OEIC Transmitter and its use in transmission experimes”, Y. H. Lo, T. P. Lee, R. Bhat, P. Grabbe, M. Z. Iqbal, M. Bagheri, Photonic Tech. Lett., Vol 2, p673-674, 1990.
   “Observation of Equivalent Rayleigh Scattering MiITors in Lightwave systems with optical amplifiers.”, J. L.Gimlett, M. Z. Iqbal, N. K. Cheung, A. Righetti, F. Fontanna and G. Grasso, IEEE Photonic Tech. Lett., Vol 2, No 3, pp 211-213, 1990.
   “Effects of Gain Ripples in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers on Very-High-Speed Lightwave Systems”, M. Z. Iqbal, K. B. Ma, C. E. Zah, T. P. Lee and N. K. Cheung, IEEE Photonic Tech. Lett., Vol. 2, No 1, 1990.
   “Low threshold Four Wavelength DFB Laser Array for multigigabit/s High -Density WDM Systems Applications”, L. A. Wang, Y. H. Lo, M. Z. Iqbal, J. Young, P. S. D. Lin and A. S. D. Gozdz, lEE Photon. Technol. Lett, vol. 3 pp 965-968, November, 1991.
   Low Threshold and high speed 1.5 urn strained layer multiple quantum well four wavelength distributed feedback laser arrays. C. E. Zah, K. W. Cheung, S. G. Menocal, R. Bhat, M. Z. Iqbal, F. Favier, N. C. Andreadakis, A.S. Gozdoz, M. A. Koza and T. P. Lee, OFC 91, San Diego, Elect. Lett.,Vol. 27, NO 12, pp 1040-1041, 1991.
   Multigigabit/s operation of 16 wavelength Vertical-Cavity Surface Emitting Laser Array, M. W. Maeda, C.Chang-Hasnain, A. Von Lehman, H. Izadpanah, C. Lin, M. Z. Iqbal, L. Florez and J. Harbison. Photon. Tech.Lett. Vol. 3, No 10, pp 863, 1991.
   New Limit on Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in Xenon 136 with a time projection Chamber. H. T. Wong, F.Boehm, P. Fisher, K. Gabathuler, H. E. Henrikson, D. A. Imel, M . Z. Iqbal, V. Jorgens, L. W. Mitchell, B.M. O’Callaghan-Hay, J. Thomas, M. Treichel, J. C. Vuilleurnier and J. L. Vuilleurnier, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 67, No 10, pp 1218, 1991.
   Tunable Four Wavelength DFB Laser Array with 10 Gb/s Sped and 5 nm Continuous Tuning Range, L. Wang, Y. Lo, M. Iqbal, A. S. Gozdoz, P. S. D. Lin, R. Bhat and H. Shirkomann, Accepted for Optical Fiber Communication 1992. TM-ARH-019933, 8/29,1991.
   Integrated Four-Wavelength DFB laser array with 10 Gb/s Speed and 5 om continuous Tuning Range. L. A. Wang, y. H. Lo, A. S. Gozdz, P. S. D. Lin, M. Z. Iqbal and R. Bhat, lEE Photon. Technol. Lett, vol. 4, pp 318-320, April 1992.
   A 3×3 Non-Blocking Switch for an Optical Data Network, M.R. Khandker, M. Z. Iqbal, SUST Studies of SUST; Vol. 1; April, 1996.
   Bangla Sorting Algorithm – A Linguistic Approach. M. S. Rahman and M. Z. Iqbal; SUST Studies of SUST, Vol.8, Dec, 2007.
   A Bangla Spell Checking System. M. S. Rahman, C. K. Karmakar, S. M. S. Shams and M. Z. Iqbal, SUST Studies of SUST, Vol. 10, Sep. 2008.
   Transformational Generative Grammar for Various Types of Bengali Sentences. M. Reza Selim and M. Z. Iqbal; SUST Studies of SUST; Vol. 12; March, 2010.
   Ujjal Kumar Bhowmik, M. Zafar Iqbal, Reza R. Adhami; Mitigation Motion Artifacts in FDK based 3D Cone-beam Brain Imaging System using Markers; Central European Journal of Engineering, May 2012

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   • The link to this list is provided in the article and this is the list that was used to determine Jafar Sir’s 20+ years of scientific inactivity.

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6. Very nice article. Congratulations.

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7. চান্দু পট্টির নাম কেন চান্দু পট্টি, সেইটা নিয়ে জাফর ইকবাল কেন প্রশ্ন করেন না, এইটাও একটা বিরাট চিন্তার বিষয় বটে! তো বিষয় হোল, জাফর ইকবাল একেবারেই ডাল ভাত, উনি চেতনার বদনা নিয়ে ঘুরেন। কিন্তু আপনি সাহেব কোন বদনা নিয়ে থাকেন? সব পট্টির প্রশ্ন জাফর ইকবালকেই করতে হবে কেন? আপনারা কারটা ছেড়ার জন্য বইসা থাকেন?? আপনারাও আসেন, জাফর ইকবাল ছাত্রদের ভর্তির বদনা নিয়ে বলেছেন, আপনি বিসিএস ের বদনা নিয়ে বলেন। নাকি উনি একাই সব বদনার ঠিকাদারি নিয়ে আছেন?

   প্যারাসাইটিক ব্লগিং না করে স্বকীয় কিছু চিন্তাভাবনা নিয়ে লেখেন। জাফর ইকবালের মতামতের অনেক সীমাবদ্ধতা থাকতেই পারে, সবারই থাকে, ব্যাপার না। উনি একটা বিষয় নিয়ে কাজ করছেন আপনি আরেকটা করে দেখান কিংবা উনার চেয়ে আরও ভালোভাবে করে দেখান। সেইটার কোন খবর কিন্তু পাওয়া যাবে না। সস্তা দলীয় লেজুড়বৃত্তি, আর প্যারাসাইটিক্যাল ব্লগিং। এরকম বস্তাপচা চিন্তাভাবনা নিয়ে লেখালেখি করেন ও কিভাবে!!

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8. The writer of Zafar sir er podottag ebong a mar bajite here jaoa is an asshole and illiterate himself. He or she is simply uneducated and does not have any idea about anything

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9. A “person” who has a glorious pre 92 scientific career gives that up to do something different- passing the light to others. And some ivy grad comes to disqualify him as a scientist for the void of his invention in the last 20 years. And its sad that there is actually a swarm of supporters for this who actually see him as a failure.
   Common folks, let your political bias NOT cloud your judgment.. Ivy statement does NOT mean it has to be true..

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10. নোবেল জয়ী ইউনুসের কয়টা বিদেশী জার্নালে আর্টিকেল আছে তার বয়ানতো করলেন না অনীক সাহেব! একজন বাংলাদেশী জাতীয়তাবাদী চেতনার ধ্বজাধারীর কাছ থেকে এরচেয়ে বেশী কি আশা করা যায়! সেই বিএনপি’র আমল থেকেই আপনি আপনার চেতনায় উদ্ধুদ হয়ে মুক্তিযুদ্ধের পক্ষের লোকজনে ব্যাক্তিগত আক্রমনে সিদ্ধহস্ত।

    জাফর স্যারের চারিত্রিক দৃঢ়তার কারণেরই নতুন প্রজন্ম তাকে ভালোবাসে। এই ভালোবাসা কোন চেতনা বা নোবেল দিয়ে জয় করা যায় না বা নোংরা দিয়ে ঢাকা যায় না। খামোখা নিজেকে আর ছোট করবেন না!

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11. Dear writer,
    the man at least believes in something and stands by it. He is definitely biased regarding his political views but i don’t think you are any less biased than him. you may have an ivy league education but trying to slander someone who is morally justified at least in the issue at hand, just shows your psychological poverty. Everyone supports something. At least have the decency to appreciate some one for their good side. Ever heard of Math Olimpiad??? Know who is behind it? Know how much impact it has on young minds?? You may be more talented, more educated, more everything than him but the fact remains that you are a sad person who has never contributed anything to his country. And he is a very politically biased person who is contributing to his country in some places at least, if not many. Gibat is a bad thing brother. You being superior doesn’t give you the right to insult others. I will just give you a glimpse of how biased you are. You think Zafar Iqbal is a blind AL supporter??? Just take a look at you productions. I dont see you writing for the poor souls loosing their life in this bloody conflict, the so called HArtals. I don’t see you writing a line regarding the manipulations created by AMAR desh. Everything’s fine so long as it serves your purpose, right??? Come to think of it, you are not really much different than him. Open your eyes and look at the mirror and take a good long breath before you speak ill of some one.

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