Prof Salimullah Khan

“Robust democratic environment remains a fictitious configuration of our noisy imagination”

In conversation with Salimullah Khan, one of Bangladesh’s most prominent public intellectuals and a professor in the Department of History & Philosophy at North South University.

Intellectuals failed to organise consent for a democratic republic

Salimullah Khan yesterday said the task of intellectuals is to realise consent for the state. They constitute the civil society while the organ functioning as political society realises coercion.

‘July revolution may veer off course’

The 1972 constitution did not incorporate the spirit of the Liberation War, said Prof Salimullah Khan yesterday.

August 5, 2025
August 5, 2025

“Robust democratic environment remains a fictitious configuration of our noisy imagination”

In conversation with Salimullah Khan, one of Bangladesh’s most prominent public intellectuals and a professor in the Department of History & Philosophy at North South University.

December 15, 2024
December 15, 2024

Intellectuals failed to organise consent for a democratic republic

Salimullah Khan yesterday said the task of intellectuals is to realise consent for the state. They constitute the civil society while the organ functioning as political society realises coercion.

October 3, 2024
October 3, 2024

‘July revolution may veer off course’

The 1972 constitution did not incorporate the spirit of the Liberation War, said Prof Salimullah Khan yesterday.