India bowled a loose delivery. Bangladesh hit it for six. But what comes next matters more.

Vilified for demanding my rights and dignity as a student, I was the target of sustained institutional harassment endemic in a system hostage to extremist religious politics.

The myth of the Awami League being secular veiled the Islamisation it oversaw, and gave the Islamists a narrative of victimhood. By neither challenging nor correcting this, the interim government’s partisanship towards Islamists is eradicating secularism.

The spate of Islamist majoritarian vandalism is a signal from a political pressure group, and a symptom of the deeper issues plaguing Bangladesh’s politics.

Capable governance working in conjunction with emerging enterprises can provide Bangladesh with the missing modernisation that is much-needed.

The transphobic and queerphobic currents in Bangladesh are straight out of the West’s playbook, whereas protecting the rights of these minorities is historically a Bangladeshi phenomenon.

The institutional erasure of women by the interim government, which risks propelling us back to the dark ages, cannot be the patriarchal political future of the country. Women will not allow it.

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?

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.

In steering clear of dealing with it incidentally, the Yunus administration has failed to recognise that climate must be central to constitutional reform.

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

Bangladeshi women are still fighting for basic health autonomy, and there is no political will to support them.

Bangladesh’s women are owed a great debt. The religion-based opposition to reform recommendations highlights the urgent need to start paying it, lest they start collecting by themselves.

Asaduzzaman Noor, a former MP of Sheikh Hasina regime, accused in vague, politically charged murder cases languishes in jail, while, victims like Mamun, Liza, and Siam — killed during the erstwhile regime's crackdown — continue to be denied justice.

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?

Bangladesh’s education sector needs to be freed from fragmented and ad hoc decision-making that reproduces and reinforces the class division in society.

Sheikh Hasina was removed as students and workers protested together, hoping for a government that would prioritise workers' rights. Months later, the new administration remains committed to the old system, resulting in ongoing worker exploitation.

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

In Bangladesh, political and social discourses often dwell on divisive historical events, sidelining urgent issues like rising living costs and unfair tax policies. Prioritising present challenges and mobilising pro-people movements can foster meaningful change over futile debates.

Jamaat-e-Islami’s resurgence, amid clamour for Islamist unity, could reshape Bangladesh’s politics—a twist enabled by those who once vilified it.

Facing indifference and inaction from the interim government, we opted for the last resort of an ICT complaint. Now that the government has belatedly established a commission, our minimum expectation is a proper investigation.

A Western tech giant cast aside local, original journalism on a story rooted in Bangladesh in favour of an avalanche of divisive coverage from neighbouring India.

A revived SAARC can be the basis for inclusive and egalitarian multilateral co-operation, if restructured to be a bulwark against hegemony.

Bangladesh, post-uprising, stands at a crossroads. By addressing systemic inequities, combating authoritarian residues, and fostering cohesive leadership, the nation can reclaim democracy and chart a path toward peace and prosperity.

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

A uniquely Bangladeshi perspective of politics can turn the grim past of a system built on political patronage, towards an idealistic future built on meaningful political activism.

Symbolic majoritarian gestures is a public relations win, but neither deters nor resolves communalism. Interfaith dynamics in post-uprising Bangladesh needs to be better.

The US president-elect’s fondness for Modi must not be an obstacle to Bangladesh finding ways to work with the US as it rebuilds and reforms.

Jatiyo Party remains the third or fourth largest national party in Bangladesh. In the absence of accountability, it has lost all legitimacy to operate as one.

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.

The economic circumstances that led to the protests in Bangladesh need to be understood, to reset priorities and construct a new direction in national politics that can benefit all Bangladeshis.

If Bangladesh is to avoid mistakes of the past and deliver on the utopian promises of the protests, correctly identifying Hasina as an autocrat rather than a fascist is an important first step.

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.

Did the post-fascist Bangladesh forget the rest of us?

The reinforcement of patriarchy via the politics of respectability after the end of the Awami League regime, is an obstacle to true reform of Bangladesh’s socio-political status quo.

If Bangladesh can learn the lessons of how the Arab Spring uprising in Egypt was failed in the aftermath, Bangladesh’s revolution can succeed and give new hope to despairing Egyptians.

Bangladesh’s newly-formed commission of inquiry on disappearance should take a series of steps to avoid a failure.

Student politics requires urgent reform, not banishment. Here is a simple prescription that ensures healthy practices and positive outcomes from Bangladesh’s student politics in the new Bangladesh.

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

Whoever replaces him has very big shoes to fill, and it is hard to imagine that people will soon forget the legacy of work the ambassador left behind.

With zero visibility ahead, people need answers. Quick.

By waging war against its people, the current government has reverted to a state of war where tyranny reigns supreme. As citizens, it has thus become incumbent upon us to resist.

Bangladeshis kept being told that our land was the greenest and our leaders were the best, but it was a great nationalist lie.

Student protesters in Bangladesh’s public imagination often assume heroic roles that can mobilise political transformation.

From a secret hideout, one of the coordinators of the student protest movement spoke to Netra News to send out an appeal to the world.

The moment a state represses a people’s movement against its corrupt practices, it has lost the fight.

Journalists’ chests, too, riddled with police bullets

Bangladeshis of the diaspora have the privilege of existing outside the oppressive laws of the current Bangladeshi government, as well as a duty to fight back, spread awareness, and amplify the voices of dissent.

Outlawing the militia known as the Chhatra League is essential for the establishment of a democratic Bangladesh

Debunking the statements by Bangladesh’s foreign affairs and information.

Decades later, your story will be one of many, told in the form of songs remembering the dark day when the government murdered Bangladeshis.

Sheikh Hasina and her lackeys are the traitors of today’s Bangladesh.

Growing number of asylum seekers from Bangladesh in Europe is closely linked to the absence of democracy.