Dhaka, Feb. 15 -- For valid reasons, the month of February will be etched in the hearts of Bangladeshis from all social spheres.

An open, well organised election was held while voters, who had not seen the face of a polling centre for decades, went to cast their votes in numbers.

Apart from a few sporadic incidents, no major cases of confrontation were reported and, as one citizen pithily remarked: an election held without a single loss of life!

Some are terming this a new dawn, others the reset this country had been waiting for, but instead of resorting to hyperbole, let's just say, Bangladesh is on the path of democracy once more.

Remember the jubilation and the hope of 1991!

Well, in that light, the nation is once more on the righ...