Who We Are

The Center for Tajuddin Ahmad Research and Activism (CTARA) is a non-profit organization, working for liberty and peace through education. CTARA seeks to empower the disadvantaged, marginalized, and destitute people, particularly children, through education based on learning from the life and works of Bongotaj Tajuddin Ahmad (the first Prime Minister of the Government of People’s Republic of Bangladesh), who dedicated his life for people’s emancipation. CTARA strives to implement the concepts of ‘Ideal Village’ and ‘Peace Society’. Research and activism are combined by the Center to reach the target-people in a meaningful and effective way to make research relevant to real life and society, and sustain activism in the right direction.
The Center was launched by a group of visionary and entrepreneuring Bangladeshi youth in January 2019 in Bonomala village located in Tongi, Gazipur. Sharmin Ahmad, eldest daughter of Bongotaj Tajuddin Ahmad, inaugurated the launching ceremony. The inaugural ceremony was covered by television stations, print media, and electronic media of the country.