Bangladesh politics has been the subject of satire for a long time. These days it has become more laughable helping people to take the healthy doses of humorous. What we saw in the last one month is absolutely ridiculous. It
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina who swept to power after the December 2008 election with a resounding victory now has only seven months to complete her term in office. As things are evolving fast amid turbulence, the country’s 16 crore people
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Politics in Bangladesh, as in many Asian countries, has become more of scapegoating. When things go wrong someone is blamed. The narrative of blame in public discourse is hard to miss here. After the Savar building collapse, both the ruling
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
The spectre of violence looms large again as the bickering political camps -- the Awami League-led 14-party ruling alliance, the BNP-led 18-party opposition alliance and the emerging Islamic force -- seem nowhere close to any understanding to break the long-drawn
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
The current state of affairs in the political arena of Bangladesh has been constantly gnawing at the peace-loving people with no immediate hope of catharsis. The rash and reckless acts of vandalism committed by the Jamaat-Shibir activists; the prolonged tug
Thursday, April 25th, 2013
No political leader can exercise wisdom all the time. Even the greatest presidents and prime ministers of the world sometimes acted unwisely. So it is not the primary question whether the President or the Prime Minister of a country has
Thursday, April 18th, 2013
As politics continues to remain turbulent with violence around, the fate of the nation is going from bad to worse. It is difficult to imagine how much the things could actually get worse. The recent political events have underlined the
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
The scenes from Bangladesh in recent days have been met with alarm around the world. There is a growing pessimism among people across the country, too. A sense of frustration has set in as extremists have geared up their violent
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
After a spate of violence and confrontations, the politicians in Bangladesh have closed ranks to show their last respect to the country’s 19th President, Zillur Rahman, who died last week. Amid heightening tension following the wholesale arrest of over 150
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Bangladesh is in the middle of a political and communal crisis. It is facing one of its worst manifestations of violence since independence in 1971. So intense is the chaos in Bangladesh, one may find it miraculous how the country
Thursday, March 21st, 2013
