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For the moment, there may be an opportunity for Bangladesh to have fresh voices and faces in politics emerging from the student movement. … Continue readingDoes Hasina’s Exit Mark the End of Bangladesh’s Political Dynasties?
From the Journal of the History of Ideas: Tejas Parasher is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Radical Democracy
Continue readingTejas Parasher on M.N. Roy and Parliamentary Democracy in Modern India
Just as the Arab Spring soon became what Harvard Law School’s Noah Feldman called an Arab Winter, Bangladesh’s democratic renewal could be smothered in its crib. … Continue reading“Bangla Spring”
by Shams Zaheer Abbas @ FOCUUS: Hasina Wajid (HW) cannot be compared with Nawaz Sharif and Asif Ali Zardari. It is an insult to compare Hasina Wajid with Marium Safdar
Continue reading“Hasina Wajid’s Blunders are Similar to What’s Happening in Pakistan Now”
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By Charles Petrie at Neom Magazine: I was making the trek into Myanmar to get a sense of how communities were organizing themselves in the vacuum created by the retreating
by Team Zeteo: Hasina, head of the Awami League party, was once seen by many as a champion of democracy. She is, in fact, currently, the world’s longest-serving female head
Continue readingWhy Are There Protests in Bangladesh? 10 Things You Need To Know
From Samaa TV: Humayun was the 2nd Mughal Emperor. His predecessor was Babur, and successor, Sher Shah Suri.
Shared by Hasham Siddiqui, Pakistan: Only for those who are interested in history. The word “Phuddu Khata” has an interesting origin which goes back to the era of Nizam Usman
Kavita Puri at the BBC: “I feel enormous shame about what happened,” Susannah Herbert tells me. Her grandfather was the governor of Bengal, in British India, during the run-up and
Continue readingSusannah’s Grandad Ran Bengal When Famine Killed Millions
Pranshu Verma in The Washington Post: Saurabh Netravalkar finds it hard to log off Slack. But a few weeks ago, the Oracle software engineer shipped his final code and set an
Continue readingAmerican Cricket Found a Star. He’s a Silicon Valley Tech Worker.
A WhatsApp Share: The Ottoman Empire’s soldiers were given meat loaves and spices by their wives before they step out to fight battles. These soldiers would cut them into very