STRATEGICALLY SPEAKING
Who killed democracy in Bangladesh?
The recent by-polls represent the state of democracy in our country fairly accurately.
US SANCTIONS / A ‘tonic’ for our security forces?
It is unfortunate that security agencies have been used in a manner that has generated more fear in people’s mind than confidence and faith in them.
Please spare us your ‘khela’
We do not know what exactly the Awami League general secretary means when he warns the BNP and advises his cadres to gird for khela on December 10.
Next Election: A Replay of Old Politics?
It is apparent, from what has transpired in the last fortnight, that any attempt to exercise political rights, and to seek space, will be curbed by force.
What have we done with our strategic assets?
Strategic assets are those that demand attention from the highest levels of the state.
Democracy means more than the ability to vote
Unfortunately, winning an election has become the synonym for achieving power.
Another ring in the shackle to gag the media
Is not the media already under duress, and its function heavily encumbered by the Digital Security Act (DSA), without needing a new law which is now on the anvil of the Bangladesh Press Council (BPC)?
Our skewed legal system
Time and again, it has been proven that, when it comes to justice in Bangladesh, some are more equal than others.
Why can’t Iran have its own Samson Option?
It is now officially known that Israel carried out the targeted killing of Iran’s top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
A tale of two elections
Gokahle’s tribute, “What Bengal thinks today, India will think tomorrow”, reflected the leading role that Bengal was taking in the anti-British movement.
Yasser Arafat: Modern era’s Saladin
The west saw him as a terrorist; to the rest of the world he was an intrepid warrior trying relentlessly to right the wrong his nation was done in 1948.
Can Biden restore America’s lost soul?
The 2020 US Presidential election has been perhaps the most closely contested election that came down to the wire.
BECA, the Indo-Pacific bandwagon and Bangladesh
Lenin once said that “there are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen.
Caught between the humble onion and regal Hilsa
I’m told that there is only one vegetable that can make people cry. And this tubular vegetable is making almost an entire nation cry, except those unscrupulous traders who shut the doors of their godowns as soon as India announced a moratorium on the export of onions.
What is the health of our Republic?
It is just as well that we are kept reminding by the UN on this very day since 2007 of the values of democracy and its importance in our life through the observance of the International Day of Democracy.
How goes the Sinha killing inquiry?
One would like to know more than what one has come by so far about the killing of Major Sinha. There were two ongoing investigations of the murder—a rare thing—and the report from one, instituted by the home ministry, has been submitted. Usually, one would hear very little of a criminal investigation till the framing of charges.
The ‘legacy’ of crossfire
Bangladesh has inherited many legacies by virtue of its long history as a constituent of a larger geographical entity, of which it was a part till not very long ago.
Who will guard the guards?
There is a common refrain amongst the public circle whether things would have moved with the speed that it has in the case of Major Sinha, were it not for the fact that he was a military officer.
