Shahriar Kabir , a renowned journalist from Bangladesh who is also the General Secretary of People’s Union Against Fundamentalism and Communalism in South Asia talks about his organization. He says that they formed this organization in a meeting in which delegates from five South Asian countries attended where the questions on dealing with the increased problems of fundamentalism and communalism was raised. Shahriar Kabir recently attended conference on secular humanism held in New York. This is the first part of his interview, the second part will be broadcast on Saturday, 19 November,2005.