Farid Erkizia Bakht

New Bangladesh is only focusing on securing negative rights. It has no strategies to deliver positive rights for the majority of people. It needs modernisation and industrialisation. Who is going to make it happen?

Plan A was four years to wipe out old politics. Incompetent management means a reluctant early exit. There may be rearguard Plan B? Where are the modern modernisers?

Beijing will not be surprised that Dhaka ditched Delhi for Washington. But one wonders if the elite grasp the risks to sovereignty

South Asian elites immediately pledged fealty to the US Emperor. They threw in the towel without even raising their fists. Do they realise the world has changed?

Will a students-led vehicle go far? Should it look to the subcontinent for clues?

Choose the correct countervailing power to stand with you. Prepare a proactive medium-term strategy. Don’t get mad. Get even.

The interim government looks short on innovative ideas, let alone revolutionary ones. A rudderless policy course is rendering it a lame duck before a robust plan for what comes next has emerged.

Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia has a lot to teach a delirious Dhaka elite about the real direction of Rising Asia. Instead, Dhaka is nostalgic for the fading glory of a Clintonesque world.

A progressive agenda for moving Bangladesh forward after the student revolt.

With zero visibility ahead, people need answers. Quick.