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.