The Rights Long Denied
Bangladesh's democratic test begins with the national election Bangladesh is approaching an election that is not merely electoral in character but exi...
Politics
When Water Wages War: The Politics of Rivers, the Battlefields of Nations
In a world grappling with climate change, economic instability, and intensifying geopolitical rivalries, a silent yet potent force runs beneath the radar of mainstream diplomatic discourse—water. On March 22, diplomats, environmentalists, academics, and global leaders converged in New York for the first United Nations conference focused solely on w...
Shibir’s campus wins and beyond: Geopolitics, misread narratives, and the irony of tactical votes
The recently concluded Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (DUCSU) and Jahangirnagar University Central Students’ Union (JUCSU) elections have op...
The Political Future of Reformists and Defectors in the Context of Bangladesh Meftahul Maruf
The next National Election in Bangladesh is knocking at the door. Each time there is a national election, the emergence of reformists or defectors in...
Pak-Afghan Conflict: The Return of Proxy Shadows
Afghanistan once stood as the crossroads of empires — a land where ambition met ruin and where every invader left behind more graves than glory. Today...
Political Interference and Economic Turmoil in Bangladesh: The Cost of Accountability Absence
The degree to which the government should interfere in the economy or let it run freely is one of the contentious topics in economics. While economist...
Islamist Politics and Elite Decline
For half a century, the domestic political landscape remained trapped in a debilitating cycle of institutional degradation, where true democratic cons...
Epistemic Sovereignty and Muslim Crisis
The global landscape of the twenty-first century presents a striking paradox for the Muslim world. Across vast geographies, from the crowded urban cen...
Push-in and Politics
The eastern corridor of South Asia is undergoing a profound and highly destabilizing geopolitical shift. The recent consolidation of power by the Bhar...
India’s New Rhetoric of Radicalism and Regional Hegemony
The geopolitical architecture of South Asia, long stabilized by the delicate balance of post-colonial sovereignty and the shared legacy of secular dem...
Can Bangladesh Institutionalize the Spirit of the July Uprising?
The geographical heart of Bangladesh is currently a theater for one of the most profound socio-political experiments of the twenty-first century. As t...
Shapla-Shahbag Binary: The Politics of Narrative
Contemporary politics in Bangladesh has progressed through a complex duality in which state policymaking, cultural orientation, and ideological positi...
West Bengal Politics and Bangladesh’s Security Outlook
The reverberations of electoral politics are rarely confined within national borders in South Asia. In a region where history, identity, and geography...
A Nation Arguing in a Dead Language
The political language of Bangladesh is undergoing a profound transformation as the political scenario is evolving. For nearly three decades, the coun...
India’s Colonial Legacies and Modern Political Manipulation in Bangladesh
In every era of human existence—whether in the shadowy expanses of prehistory or amid the complex geopolitics of the twenty-first century—one lesson h...
Rakhine’s New Frontiers of Power
Rakhine State, long a battleground of Myanmar’s contested sovereignties, is undergoing a profound geopolitical shift whose implications extend far bey...
Islamist Politics and the Future of Bangladesh
The July 2024 uprising in Bangladesh represents a defining moment in the nation’s political history—an event that did not merely topple an entrenched...
Myanmar’s Civilian Transition -A Political Sleight of Hand
By any measure, Myanmar’s sudden announcement of a “civilian interim government” and upcoming December elections has sent ripples across the analytica...
Feni Corridor: A Crucial Frontier for Bangladesh's Sovereignty and Security
In the quiet, often-overlooked stretch of Parshuram Upazila in Bangladesh’s Feni district lies a geographical sliver that carries extraordinary strate...