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?