Bangladesh, Sept. 25 -- In her 1963 book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, the political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the phrase "banality of evil" to describe how mind-boggling atrocities could be committed by ordinary people who conform to rules without examining their actions critically. Arendt coined the term while reporting on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi official who had organised the logistics of the Holocaust. Arendt's point was that Eichmann had not displayed extreme hatred or malice; instead, he had acted like an ordinary, career-minded bureaucrat who claimed that he was simply doing his job by obeying orders. Eichmann had made evil banal. That was his contribution to German his...