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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Mahfuz Anam |Vidya Bhushan Rawat |Mizanur Rahman |M Adil Khan
We need legal frameworks to prevent their future misuseIn its obsession with remaining in power, Sheikh Hasina’s government distorted and misused all institutions, including the judiciary, bureaucracy, police, and intelligence agencies. This facilitated the creation of the fascistic ruling structure from which we have now been freed by the student-led people’s uprising. Political powers also used the DGFI to intimidate the free and independent media.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Vidya Bhushan Rawat |Mizanur Rahman |M Adil Khan |Mahfuz Anam
There was a complete chaos outside the airport when I landed in Dhaka. The main highway did not have enough policemen. The friend who came to pick me up said that Dhaka’s traffic was being managed by locals and student volunteers. The air was thick and extremely polluted very similar to Delhi in the post Diwali days. My friend took me to the place where I was staying and in between I saw walls painted, with Sheikh Hasina’s portraits torn and painted with black or with a cross mark over it.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Mizanur Rahman |M Adil Khan |Mahfuz Anam |Jake Smaje
Four months have passed since the student-led revolution overthrew Sheikh Hasina, the most despised dictatorial prime minister in Bangladesh, on August 5, 2024. The nation has not yet shown signs of stability. The nation’s continuous, sporadic instability and disorder prompted people to consider the government’s successes and failures, as well as its strengths and flaws.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | M Adil Khan |Mahfuz Anam |Jake Smaje |Taj Hashmi
Bangladesh Assistant High Commission office in Agartala was attacked on December 2 by Hindutva hordes… Frenzied up by misinformation, ”thousands of people took out a massive rally to the mission” even as police looked on… Over 50 protesters entered the premises, reported Indian media DNA. (Photo:DNA).
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | M Adil Khan |Mahfuz Anam |Jake Smaje |Taj Hashmi
On 5th of August this year, a student led mass uprising ended and forced Prime Minister Hasina’s 16-year despotic and corrupt regime in Bangladesh and forced her to flee and take shelter in India. The uprising that came at a huge cost – during the uprising Hasina government’s police, the paramilitary and her party’s student wing thugs, the Chatro League killed more than a thousand men and women, mostly young and some as young as 8-year, and injured thousands more.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Moin Qazi |M Adil Khan |NREGA Sangharsh Morcha
Any development project having a wide focus must face the challenge of deciding its priorities carefully with community participation. There are many needs of people and the resources are limited. There are pressures from the more influential sections to give more attention to them.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Mahfuz Anam |M Adil Khan |Jake Smaje |Taj Hashmi
The only conclusion that can be drawn from much of the Indian media’s recent coverage of Bangladesh is that it is a Hindu-hating country. The venom that is being spewed, the language that is being used, the hatred that is being spread, and the demeaning stereotype that is being portrayed about us seem geared towards generating a hatred for Bangladeshis among the Indian people. The long-term impact of this, along with its backlash here, will be very difficult to neutralise.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | M Adil Khan |Jake Smaje |Taj Hashmi |zeenat khan
According to the Italian social scientist Vilfredo Pareto changes in regimes and revolutions occur not when rulers are overthrown from below, but when one group of elite replaces another; where the masses simply, willingly or inadvertently, help one elite group push the other to take over and secure their own interests rather than those of the masses — the foot soldiers of revolutions. But there are some exceptions, and Bangladesh’s recent mass uprising is one such exception.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Taj Hashmi |zeenat khan |HABIB SIDDIQUI |M Adil Khan
After Bangladesh’s independence, India played a crucial role as the new nation’s so-called “patron-protector” until the violent overthrow of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in August 1975. Although this event was a setback for India, it did not mark the end of Indian influence in Bangladesh. However, India has yet to come to terms with the abrupt removal of the pro-India Hasina government this August.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | zeenat khan |HABIB SIDDIQUI |M Adil Khan |Nusrat Jan
Art and politics do not mix. Not everyone can be artists, but many can be taught to be politicians —- Jasmine Alexander, Actress, Author, Filmmaker and Social Media InfluencerI do not necessarily agree with the first sentence of the above statement. Let us take the case of Bruce Springsteen, for example. All through his career he has performed songs that are viewed as political. He never shied away from expressing his political beliefs. In support of that let me start with a couple of questions here.
