The US-based think tank, IRI, released its a pre-election assessment of Bangladesh. It dismantles Awami League’s narrative that the student movement was a 'foreign-inspired conspiracy.'
In a time of increasing religious polarisation worldwide, Bauls represent an alternative imagination. And they have shaped Bengal’s soul for centuries.
Religious extremism has surged, warns 250-plus members of Bangladesh civil society in a statement that also takes a swipe at a group portraying itself as 'sole agents' of Islam.
The graduation is meant to bolster the legacy and legitimacy of Sheikh Hasina's Awami League, even as the real-world preparedness lagged behind the glossy narrative.
The leaders of the new establishment, including Mohammad Yunus, should realize by now the danger of their single-minded focus on eradicating Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League.
After December 2024, Bangladesh has again sent a note verbale, formally seeking Hasina’s extradition. This comes after another plea for her return hours after she was sentenced to death.
India's projects related to BIMSTEC, Look-East-Act-East and Indian Ocean Rim Association could suffer a setback, impacting trade with South Asia and the South-South Cooperation agenda.
If elections happen in Bangladesh next year without the Awami League’s participation, there is every possibility of a sudden surprise around the bend. One can only hope it would not be bloody.
The concern is not that 2025’s rally was irrational, but that it may be difficult to repeat. Outlooks remain anchored to AI investment and growth without reigniting inflation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
I can go to Bangladesh and get 100 people in my sample. I will chose in such a manner that 90 out of those 100 would say that they love Sheikh Hasina and would want Bangladesh to get rid of the interim government. I can then publish the results under some obscure and shady think tank or whatever and get people with agenda like Mr Mahmud to share it. Some people would buy it and some would not.
Bangladesh is more than welcome to become the outpost of an actual hegemon who wants to use it as a base for their own strategic interests. But when the chicken would come home to roost, I am sure people like the author can spin and twist it to blame India. Judging by the attacks and intimidation of bauls, liberation war veterans and religious minority leaders, I am grateful as an Indian Bengali to people like Mr Mahmud to showcase how Bangladeshis are not Bengalis and how 1971 was a civil war between the Islamists and moderate Pakistanis who were understandably disgusted at Operation Searchlight.
It is more pertinent for Bengalis in West Bengal to protect the culture and the language. And all the more important to kick out the closeted Islamists who use the language to destroy it and its accompanying culture.
Mr Faisal is trying too hard. His words should be directed at the “interim government” to call for elections next week itself since it is so popular. Or did the student leaders succumb to the intellectual fallacy of democratic systems run by surveys conducted by another sovereign situated thousand of miles away ? It is laughable that the author is relying on surveys. It is also seems to paint a sorry picture where citizens are being made to read reasons to accept validity of interim non democractically elected governments. Conduct elections before lest crutching on straws is the new normal.
I can go to Bangladesh and get 100 people in my sample. I will chose in such a manner that 90 out of those 100 would say that they love Sheikh Hasina and would want Bangladesh to get rid of the interim government. I can then publish the results under some obscure and shady think tank or whatever and get people with agenda like Mr Mahmud to share it. Some people would buy it and some would not.
Bangladesh is more than welcome to become the outpost of an actual hegemon who wants to use it as a base for their own strategic interests. But when the chicken would come home to roost, I am sure people like the author can spin and twist it to blame India. Judging by the attacks and intimidation of bauls, liberation war veterans and religious minority leaders, I am grateful as an Indian Bengali to people like Mr Mahmud to showcase how Bangladeshis are not Bengalis and how 1971 was a civil war between the Islamists and moderate Pakistanis who were understandably disgusted at Operation Searchlight.
It is more pertinent for Bengalis in West Bengal to protect the culture and the language. And all the more important to kick out the closeted Islamists who use the language to destroy it and its accompanying culture.
Mr Faisal is trying too hard. His words should be directed at the “interim government” to call for elections next week itself since it is so popular. Or did the student leaders succumb to the intellectual fallacy of democratic systems run by surveys conducted by another sovereign situated thousand of miles away ? It is laughable that the author is relying on surveys. It is also seems to paint a sorry picture where citizens are being made to read reasons to accept validity of interim non democractically elected governments. Conduct elections before lest crutching on straws is the new normal.