The interim government, which was an outcome of the mass uprising in July-August, is ready to make all the necessary reforms and make every effort to create a suitable environment for it, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus has said.

Demands and suggestions in this regard must come from everyone dedicated to this work, Prof Yunus said at the inaugural ceremony of the “Centennial Celebration of the Bose-Einstein Statistics: A legacy of Dhaka” in the city on Thursday.

"We can do this if we have confidence in ourselves. Bose had confidence in himself, so he could write to Einstein despite being a complete stranger," Prof Yunus said.

The Dhaka University Physics Department and Bose Center for Advanced Study and Research in Natural Sciences, DU have jointly organised the two-day celebration.

“We must always develop confidence in our minds so that we do not have to go to the world, but the world comes to us,” Prof Yunus said.

He laid emphasis on creating confidence in people’s minds to achieve a greater goal.

“We must create confidence in the minds of our youths that we are the world. Today, we are celebrating the centenary of that aspiration,” he said.

The chief adviser said the way the environment for Bose’s invention was developed in 1924 will be continued today. “There is no alternative to it. I invite everyone in the world of science to do so.”

He said the quiet little town and the green Ramna cannot be brought back, but they can definitely bring back the glories of Dhaka University.

“When I was a student of Dhaka University in the late 1950s, Bose’s Dhaka was more similar to Dhaka at that time than to Dhaka today. So, I can imagine the atmosphere of Dhaka and Dhaka University,” he said.

Prof Yunus said they want to emphasise this on the centenary of the Bose-Einstein theory that today, through the revolution, the student-teacher community has regained their freedom of thought and the practice of free intellect.

"To this must now be added the ability to contribute to the world of science. That is achieved through daily study and research while keeping aspirations high," he said.

Education Adviser Prof Wahiduddin Mahmud, Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Prof Niaz Ahmed Khan, and former professor at SN Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkata, Partha Ghose, also spoke at the programme.