Lessons from four elections: More challenges to democracy ahead
9 July 2024, 13:00 PM
Opinion
India’s election opens the door to the past
5 June 2024, 08:49 AM
Opinion
Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2024: Another indictment of Bangladesh’s state of governance
24 March 2024, 02:00 AM
Opinion
What democracy indices say about Bangladesh
23 February 2024, 01:00 AM
Opinion
The Great Game will continue
9 January 2024, 13:00 PM
Opinion
Opinion / What comes after January 7?
4 January 2024, 02:00 AM
Opinion
Elections without choice: A leaf out of autocrats’ playbook
11 December 2023, 02:00 AM
Opinion
EC’s act is ‘an improbable fiction’
17 November 2023, 18:00 PM
Opinion
Reading Donald Lu’s letter, intently
15 November 2023, 09:06 AM
Opinion
What the law minister's DSA statement reveals
7 June 2023, 16:00 PM
Opinion
Lessons from four elections: More challenges to democracy ahead
Do these elections indicate a strategy to beat populist politics?
9 July 2024, 13:00 PM
India’s election opens the door to the past
India witnessed a tumultuous time between May 1996 and October 1999 when coalition governments came and left in quick succession.
5 June 2024, 08:49 AM
Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2024: Another indictment of Bangladesh’s state of governance
Bangladesh, since 2018, has been classified as a 'moderate autocracy.'
24 March 2024, 02:00 AM
What democracy indices say about Bangladesh
Bangladesh’s declining score in the EIU Democracy Index should provide an opportunity to discuss not only how EIU has rated Bangladesh, but also how others have characterised the country’s state of democracy—or lack thereof.
23 February 2024, 01:00 AM
The Great Game will continue
The absence of democratic behaviour is no longer hidden under the carpet.
9 January 2024, 13:00 PM
Elections without choice: A leaf out of autocrats’ playbook
As the country is heading towards an exercise that the incumbent is calling an election, it is imperative that we understand what is in the making.
11 December 2023, 02:00 AM
Reading Donald Lu’s letter, intently
Is there a connection between India’s clarification of its policy and Lu’s letter?
15 November 2023, 09:06 AM
What the law minister's DSA statement reveals
Until now, there was no account from the government that provided a picture on the extent of the use of the law.
7 June 2023, 16:00 PM
Government’s stubborn attitude on DSA sends ominous signal
The government is not taking OHCHR recommendations about the law into account.
9 April 2023, 17:00 PM
Persecution of journalists: Condemnation isn’t enough
It is our moral duty to condemn the arrest of Samsuzzaman Shams and demand his immediate release.
30 March 2023, 14:30 PM
What is in store for the new year?
Looking back at 2022, experts on the South Asian political and economic landscape would highlight the ongoing economic crisis for understandable reasons.
1 January 2023, 13:00 PM
Citizens’ fundamental rights are not the executive’s choice
Can citizens be told that their rights are now available because the executive branch of the state is offering them as a gift?
2 September 2022, 17:00 PM
Why is Bangladesh seeking IMF support in the first place?
As Bangladesh, facing an unprecedented economic crisis, has entered a negotiation with the IMF for a USD 4.5 billion loan package, a few discussions have ensued in the country.
4 August 2022, 15:00 PM
Imran Khan’s downfall and the judiciary’s role in it
A fortuitous combination of several factors in the past few months have brought down the Imran Khan government in Pakistan.
12 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Dhaka’s abstention in Ukraine vote is an anomaly
Bangladesh’s abstention in the vote on the Ukraine crisis at the United Nations’ emergency special session on March 3, 2022 deserves much more scrutiny than it has received thus far.
15 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Three legacies of the Election Commission
The 12th Election Commission (EC) of Bangladesh, headed by KM Nurul Huda, completed its tenure on February 14, 2022.
15 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Five questions about the president’s dialogues
It seems like deja vu in Bangladeshi politics. As President Abdul Hamid is holding dialogues with various political parties to seek suggestions for members to form the search committee for the next Election Commission, it has brought back the memories of 2012 and 2017.
27 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11 attacks: A day of remembrance, a day of reckoning
This is not how the day marking the 20th anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the United States was expected to be commemorated, but unfortunately, the day has turned out to be not only a day of remembrance, but also of reckoning.
10 September 2021, 18:00 PM
A Year of Paradoxes
The most appropriate description of the year 2019, particularly of Bangladeshi politics, is perhaps a dialogue in Act 3, Scene 4, of the Twelfth Night of William Shakespeare: “If this were play’d upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”
29 December 2019, 18:00 PM