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…
Immemorial February 21 produced significant political literature. The literature is evidence of political, and to be definite, class position of concerned parties; be it a group or political party, a…
On December 10, 2021, the Biden administration imposed sanctions on Bangladesh’s elite paramilitary force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and seven of its current and former officials accusing of human…
For a long period of time, Bangladesh has been striving to ensure food security at home by planning to shop farmland abroad. Recently, South Sudan, an African country, has expressed…
With its latest steps, America runs the risk of being branded as a nation genetically predisposed to harming the homeland of 165 million Bengalis, many of whom still vividly remember…
The frustration of those who lost hope of any retaliatory action against human rights violators in Bangladesh has finally been eased, at least partially, by the recent US Treasury Department's…
How Nixon and Kissinger failed to respond to urgent need for course-correction from their own senior diplomats This year events relating to the liberation of Bangladesh have been recalled time…
Some facts for some ‘secular protestors’ Bangladesh is so near and so far, and the border, though we hear it is very porous, is also very opaque or even illusive…
Within hours, Bangladesh will begin celebrating that hour of victory – December 16, 1971 – that marks one of the glorious moments in the Bangladesh people’s history of bravery, struggle,…
In the life of a nation, perhaps, the first fifty years ought to be regarded as marking the rites of passage through adolescence. India can congratulate itself for helping navigate…
Most wars are not justified. However 50 years ago, as India prepared for war during the greater part of 1971, these preparations were well justified, and were in fact necessary…
During about 8 to 9 months of 1971, the Pakistani Army and its local collaborators killed nearly 2.5 million people , raped over 3 lakh women and uprooted nearly 10…
Bangledesh has completed 50 years of its liberation from the grip of West Pakistan, now Pakistan. It organized a grand program in which among others India’s Prime minster Narendra Modi…
Whenever it is recognized that foreign policy distortions of one or more superpowers have led to serious human rights violations and humanitarian crisis in developing countries, the focus has been…
It is good that recently initiatives have been taken by both India and Bangladesh to repair damage and prepare the ground for again strengthening close relationship. The geographical conditions of…
When Banglabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rehman , the first President of Bangladesh, also called the Father of the Nation and revered by millions as such, was assassinated on August 15, 1975…
On its 50th Independence Day ( March 26) Bangladesh can take well-deserved pride in the advancement in terms of several important development indicators achieved in the middle of many-sided difficulties.…
Sheikh Mujibur Rehman was not just the first President of Bangladesh. Called Banglabandhu and Father of the Nation, he had played a very courageous role in resisting domination and repression…
Scottish historian Sir William Hunter (1840-1900) wrote in 1871 that “a hundred and seventy years ago (In 1700), it was almost impossible for a well-born Musalman in Bengal to become…
On February 1, 2021 the Qatar based TV outlet, Al Jazeera aired a tele documentary, “All the Prime Minister’s Men.” The tele documentary that included several sting operations involving convicted…
Top Left: Sheikh Mujibur Rahman giving his penultimate speech on 7th of March 1971 at Racecourse Maidan, Dhaka, (then East Pakistan) Bangladesh); Top Right. Major (then) Ziaur Rahan announcing independence…
In the politics of Bangladesh, opposition parties including the Bangladesh Nationalist Party frequently say that massive movement will be carried out to oust the government, whereas the ruling party,…
Good governance, a much talked–about concept in political and development discourse in the contemporary world and closely related to the concept of ‘governance’ that usually indicates the process of decision–making…
National vision, which usually reflects long-term goals of progression, is crucial for planned development of any country including Bangladesh. A well-developed national vision provides overall development targets to be achieved…
I don’t know who drew this this rape-map of Bangladesh, but this is a telling geography of rape epidemic which as can be see here, has spread widely and reached…
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