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?

In the occupied territories of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the state is systematically robbing the oppressed Bawms of their citizenship rights with impunity.

I was a card-carrying member of the Jatiyo Party, holding a leadership position due to nepotism. This is my insider’s account of the Indian state’s encroachment on the internal matters of the party.