Historian Yuval Noah Harari, of bestsellers "Sapiens" (2011) and "Homo Deus" (2016) fame, talks about the importance of stories in human history which have the power, he says, to transform the fortune of peoples -- turning groups to tribes, to communities, to nations and, to civilizations and make them achieve wonders.

For us, Bangladesh is such a story of that has made its people achieve wonders. To that extraordinary story a new and inspiring chapter has been added titled "Padma Bridge", whose unquestioned author is Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. It was Bangabandhu's "political will" that contributed so much to Bangladesh's birth.

Similarly, it is Sheikh Hasina's political will that lies at the core of the Padma Bridge becoming a reality. It was her single-minded determination to build it and the courage to overcome many of the vicissitudes that befell it on its way that were the key to the nation witnessing what it did yesterday -- the completion of physical structure of the bridge.

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