February 26, 2022
DSA took away Mushtaq
Writer Mushtaq Ahmed paid the ultimate price for his freedom of expression, and it’s a matter of shame for us all that it happened in the year of the Golden Jubilee of Bangladesh’s independence.
February 15, 2022
Democracy’s digital challenge
At the beginning of the current millennium, the world celebrated the visible empowerment of citizens through digital technology due to emergence of social media platforms and search engines.
February 11, 2022
When politics is all about partying
The one issue dominating British politics for weeks is nothing other than the partying going on at the heart of the government, at 10 Downing Street, the office-cum-residence of the prime minister.
February 1, 2022
The CEC’s pre-poll slumber and the question of ballot stuffing
Can anyone remember such degradation of a constitutional body like what our Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) KM Nurul Huda has done?
January 22, 2022
What can we expect from the Search Committee law?
The sudden approval of a draft Election Commission law by the cabinet certainly gives the government and the ruling party a powerful public relation tool, as they can claim they have done what no other party even attempted in the last 50 years.
January 4, 2022
Journalists should be worried about DSA exceptionalism
The extraordinary assurance that no journalist will be arrested immediately under the Digital Security Act (DSA) without a summon seems to be an attractive solution to the concerns and fears created by its random abuse to suppress critical voices in the media.
December 31, 2021
UP elections remind us why we need a political consensus
It seems that some of us are quite intrigued by the results of the Union Parishad (UP) elections that show official nominees of the ruling party, Awami League, having lost in a big way.
December 21, 2021
Misleading analysis of US sanctions must be avoided
Bangladesh’s elite law enforcement force, the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), which has been subjected to a sanction by the US, has now been applauded by the same government for its role in tackling terrorism, according to some media reports.
November 28, 2021
‘Bloodstained’ UP elections and the CEC’s alternative truth
Video footage and reports have been emerging daily on both traditional and social media exposing how violent and intimidating our elections have become.
November 23, 2021
What the racism scandal of English cricket tells us
When Indian-born Muslim cricketer Nasser Hussain captained the England team, no one could have imagined that after nearly two decades, the game would be facing a storm of this magnitude and compel the wider society to confront one of the most sensitive issues: racism.