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.