The government handled the issue from an egoistic stance, and made several wrong decisions while tackling the situation

There is no shame in admitting that in the last few days many of us have cried helplessly, over the senseless deaths of students—teenagers or in their early twenties—the same age or close to the ages of our children.

It is a special kind of horror to see the semi-abstract theories you studied for your semi-abstract major come to life, and begin to apply to events 20 minutes away from you.

The Appellate Division verdict of July 21 has opened the scope for resolution of the main issue around the demands coming from the quota reform movement.

The verdict is in. The Appellate Division through its observations has recommended that quotas be restricted to seven percent: five percent for freedom fighters’ descendants, one percent for ethnic minorities, and one percent for people with disabilities.

There was smoke everywhere, and I heard gunshots.

What is happening in Bangladesh right now is truly unfathomable.

I wonder if this is how the nights must have felt during those nine months of the Liberation War.

The responsibility for this bloodshed cannot be avoided by either the government or the university authorities.

There is a serious governance failure in dealing with the student demands for merit-based recruitment system in Bangladesh’s government jobs.

The government is complicating and antagonising a solvable proposition by ordinary citizens

These latest developments add to the concerns over the increasing tendency towards intolerance and the preference for violent means to suppress any dissent.

What made them flood campus streets on Sunday night was a specific comment that touched a nerve for the wider student community.

The universal pension would be out of reach of the extremely poor, such as day labourers, due to their inability to make contributions.

To attain the objectives of both strong institutions and inclusivity, assistance need not always come in the form of a quota for the backward sections.

If we compare the state to a four-legged chair, the government represents only one leg.

What could have been resolved through a discussion as expected from any government, ended up being yet another violent suppression of the voices of students

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