Armed conflict can never bring lasting benefits; peace is always achieved by avoiding warfare. In response to global conflicts and the need for sustained peace, the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission…
When a top national-level woman leader succeeds in increasing human development indicators to a remarkable extent in the middle of the most difficult conditions, should sections of big media treat…
In December 2024, we witnessed India’s strong protest against Yunus cabinet advisor Mahfuj Alam’s Facebook post, which showed a map of undivided Bengal, referring to regions that are part of…
One.Let us cast our gaze upon the world-stage in the year past: four nations ─ Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and India ─ at the mercy of elections, the earth trembling…
Though the term ‘Harijan’ in India has become unparliamentary after much struggle of the Dalit community particularly the Ambedkarites, it continues to be in the mainstream communication and parlance in…
On February 13, U.S. President Donald Trump, during a joint press conference with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, publicly denied the involvement of the U.S. deep state in last year's…
Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government was behind possible “crimes against humanity” as it strived to hold on to power last year, says the United Nations Human Rights office in a…
Indo-Bangladesh border-lands in West Bengal (2017 km in length), fraught with strife, has borne witness to a harrowing pattern of extra-judicial killings perpetrated by the Border Security Force (BSF). The…
We need legal frameworks to prevent their future misuse In its obsession with remaining in power, Sheikh Hasina's government distorted and misused all institutions, including the judiciary, bureaucracy, police, and intelligence agencies.…
There was a complete chaos outside the airport when I landed in Dhaka. The main highway did not have enough policemen. The friend who came to pick me up said…
“A 5-day long Sharadiya Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Bangladesh Hindu Community ended peacefully through the immersion of deities at different water bodies, on 2024 Oct 13..It…
Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri concluded a one-day visit to Dhaka, on Dec 9, meeting Muhammad Yunus, the Chief Advisor of Bangladesh’s Interim Government. (Photo by DD). The meeting, some…
Four months have passed since the student-led revolution overthrew Sheikh Hasina, the most despised dictatorial prime minister in Bangladesh, on August 5, 2024. The nation has not yet shown signs…
Bangladesh Assistant High Commission office in Agartala was attacked on December 2 by Hindutva hordes… Frenzied up by misinformation, ”thousands of people took out a massive rally to the mission”…
On 5th of August this year, a student led mass uprising ended Prime Minister Hasina’s 16-year despotic and corrupt regime in Bangladesh. Hasina fled to India and has been residing…
The only conclusion that can be drawn from much of the Indian media's recent coverage of Bangladesh is that it is a Hindu-hating country. The venom that is being spewed,…
According to the Italian social scientist Vilfredo Pareto changes in regimes and revolutions occur not when rulers are overthrown from below, but when one group of elite replaces another; where…
Bangladesh is a small country that sits within the Northeast of South Asia with India wrapped around it, and Myanmar to the South. Despite its small size and relatively recent…
Bangladesh says, ‘ We are probing if there is any conspiracy both at home and abroad to destabilize the interim government’,even as India indulges in brazen intervention in the internal…
After Bangladesh's independence, India played a crucial role as the new nation's so-called "patron-protector" until the violent overthrow of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975. Although this event was a…
Art and politics do not mix. Not everyone can be artists, but many can be taught to be politicians ---- Jasmine Alexander, Actress, Author, Filmmaker and Social Media Influencer I…
Bangladesh Hindus participate in a rally demanding that an interim government withdraw all cases against their leaders and protect them from attacks and harassment, in Chattogram, Bangladesh, Nov. 1, 2024.…
by Abdul A. Bhuiyan and Habib Siddiqui In times of war, truth is often the first casualty. The US elections are increasingly becoming the battle grounds where truth is sacrificed…
The Sanatan Jagran Manch, Bangladesh, on Oct 25 Friday, organised a massive rally at the historic Laldighi Maidan in Chittagong, where thousands of Hindus came together to demand minority rights…
The July-August 2024 student-public uprising in Bangladesh began with a call for government job quota reforms but swiftly evolved into a profound challenge to the political status quo. What started…
On August 5, 2024, a student led mass uprising ended Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League government’s decade and a half long despotic rule in Bangladesh. Hasina fled…
On the role of religion in politics, participants at a student-led round-table at The Daily Star, critically examined the influence of religion on political dynamics in Bangladesh. They emphasised that…
I learnt from a recent news story on Google that during the oath-taking ceremony of a military academy in Turkey, a dozen new army officers refused to take the oath…
According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other…
by Mahadev Ghosh and Ramisa Rob In his Independence Day speech, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised that 1.4 billion Indians are worried about the safety of Hindu minorities in…
Hundreds of students from Dhaka, Chattogram and districts in between were seen marching towards Feni on August 22 last. They travelled in trucks, with speedboats and life jackets, on a…
There is a common perception that the bilateral relationship benefits India much more than it does Bangladesh…It should be clear to everyone that subordination and friendship are not the same.…
Salil Tripathi is the author of The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy (Aleph 2014) about the liberation war and its aftermath. He is a journalist…
This article is based on B.Z. Khasru's upcoming book, One Eleven, Minus Two, Prime Minister Hasina's War on Yunus and America, which will be published shortly by Rupa Publications, New…
The day after former Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina left Dhaka, I was on the phone with a friend who had spent some time on the streets that day. He…
[This is an excerpt from B. Z. Khasru's upcoming book, "One Eleven, Minus Two, Prime Minister Hasina's War on Yunus and America," which will be published shortly by Rupa Publications,…
The sequence of events that have been happening in our neighbouring country Bangladesh for the last two weeks has made the Hindutva organisations of India very happy. And they are…
The recent mass student protests in Bangladesh, which succeeded in toppling the government and empowering a Western-friendly interim leader, have attracted widespread attention, although many in the West know little…
In a repeat of the same political script, the army has stepped in Bangladesh to replace an elected government. The million dollar query is whether the present army chief who …
On August 5, 2024 an angry mob of hundreds and thousands who were protesting and venting their anger against Hasina and her Awami League government’s years of despotism, injustices and…
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy (IMSD) strongly condemns the attack on the life and property of Bangladeshi Hindus. Communalism is a sub-continental malaise and must be fought across borders. We…
During a trip to Bangladesh in 2010, I asked several journalists at the Dhaka Press Club why Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina went after Muhammad Yunus, the U.S.-trained, Grameen Bank-famed, development…
There is a problem, fundamentally, in viewing the regime change in Bangladesh as a ‘stand-alone’ event. The caveat must be added right at the outset that when it comes to…
Events of recent days have focused world’s attention on the multi-dimensional crisis situation in Bangladesh, an important country of South Asia having most of its land border with India (a…
On Monday, August 5, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina boarded a Bangladesh Air Force C-130J military transport in a hurry and fled to Hindon Air Force base, outside Delhi. Her…
It was in the month of August, 77 years ago that India was partitioned. And a country called Pakistan was forcefully created. That too East Pakistan and West Pakistan, between…
Amidst the ongoing turmoil in Bangladesh, it is important to remember the extremely important and at the same time extremely tragic events in Bangladesh in 1975. When Banglabandhu Sheikh Mujibur…
( This is the first chapter of a book entitled, Desperation As Film Art to be published later in the year by Cerebrum Books, Kochi. The author believes that the…
Sheikh Hasina has quit as Bangladesh Prime Minister and fled the country. Bangladesh Army chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman said that the Army will form an interim government and has appealed to…
The current crisis which the Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is facing from the challenge thrown up by the students, is actually of her own making. All through her successive …
Lately, in Bangladesh, the stories of corrupt officials – high and low – and their acquisition of illicit wealth through corrupt means have been widely circulated in the media, revealing…
A few days ago, I came across the book Bangladesh’s Seven Governing Periods, 1972-2022, ‘Constants of Bad Governance’ and Much-need Resets”. The book was published in 2023. The book has been authored by…
December 16. The Bangladesh people celebrate the day as Victory Day – a victory through vanquishing the armed forces of the neo-colonial state of Pakistan. The people tore down the…
The recently held July 17, 2023, by-election at Dhaka-17 vacant seat that witnessed a vicious attack on an independent candidate, Mr. Hero Alom, revealed two contrasting trends – a missed…
by Ashish Kumar Singh & Kamruzzaman Introduction Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit (June 21-24) to the United States was expected to deepen and diversify ties between the two…
On the 26th of April 2023, Mohammad Mofijul Islam, the officer in charge of the Jatrabari police station of Dhaka Metropolitan Police in Bangladesh, recorded a general diary alleging that…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Abdul Momen in Washington on Monday, April 10th (Blinken had asked Momen to meet him) to discuss the current state…
Tens of thousands of people protested in Dhaka on December 10 to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League-led government and to call for new elections over…
The staggering rate of unemployment among university graduates in Bangladesh, and the difficulty faced by employers in securing a skilled workforce, pose a conundrum for the country’s development journey, with…
Life, of individual and of class, doesn’t move without contradictions. And, people’s life doesn’t sit immobile. Life and contradiction, thus, is inseparable. Dynamics in people’s struggle moving on the matrix…
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