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2019 Election and the Debate Around the Issue of India’s Identity: A ‘Hindutva’ India or ‘Sarvadharma Sambhava’ India?2
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- May 22, 2019
By: Rajit Das 22 May 2019 The world’s largest democracy is going through with elections to elect the new prime minister of India. After five years of rule under the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the leadership of Narendra Modi, the citizens of India are making their voices heard by practicing their democratic franchise of
READ MOREBangladesh’s rape epidemic: Are these a case of deviant sexual behaviour or ‘System’s failure’?0
- Commentary, Featured
- May 16, 2019
By M Adil Khan 16 May 2019 In Bangladesh incidents of loot, plunder, enforced disappearances, breakdown of rule of law, extra-judicial killings, deaths and injuries in road accidents through reckless driving have become parts of daily news. Lately, news of audacious rapes, abductions of girls and women and sexual harassments in almost all parts of
READ MOREEaster Sunday in Sri Lanka: Crisis, Correction and Hope0
- Commentary, Featured
- May 8, 2019
By Asanga Abeyagoonasekera 8 May 2019 “What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.” Robert D. Kaplan I was 16 when I witnessed the horror terrorism first hand. It was the blast I lost my father in. When the long battle ended with the Tamil Tigers in
READ MOREBangladesh: An Open Letter to Dr. Gowher Rizvi. Oxford Union debate telecast on Aljazeera3
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 28 – Spring 2019
- March 1, 2019
Taj Hashmi 1 March 2019 Dear Gowher: In hindsight, I think I should have written this letter ten years back, days after you became the International Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. I am sorry, I failed miserably to perform my duty as a friend towards a very good old friend on time.
READ MOREEnd of Year Editorial; Evolving Political Dynamics in South Asia0
- Commentary, Featured
- December 24, 2018
By M. Adil Khan, Guest Editor 2018 has been an eventful year for South Asia especially at the political level. During 2018 several countries in the region have had their elections and these elections have altered their political pictures. In others preparations for elections are underway and yet in others sub-national elections and their outcomes
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2018 Bangladesh General Election: A Time for Stock-taking and Pondering the Stakes2
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 27 – Winter 2019
- December 3, 2018
By Adil Khan and Habib Zafarullah* 4 December 2018 The 2018 Bangladesh General Election scheduled on December 30, 2018 marks the end of two consecutive terms of the ruling Awami League (AL), first ever by any political party since 1991, the year a combined opposition movement against a decade long dictatorship resurrected and re-introduced
READ MOREWill Bangladesh polls sans Begum Zia spell victory for PM Hasina?0
NOV 06 2018 PINAK RANJAN CHAKRAVARTY * 6 November 2018 In a double whammy, Bangladesh’s High Court has dealt another grievous blow to Begum Khaleda Zia, former prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), the major opposition party. The court enhanced her sentence in a corruption case from 5 to 10
READ MOREShadow of India, Hasina govt’s corruption, repression of BNP looms over Bangladesh polls0
by Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty | Sep 07,2018 BANGLADESH will go into election mode in the next few months. Democratic transfer of power in Bangladesh became the norm ever since the overthrow of military dictator General HM Ershad in 1990. The army-backed caretaker government, during 2007–2008, was an exception in Bangladesh’s democratic governance. Bangladesh has never
READ MOREBangladesh: Will this country become Pakistan or Kashmir?2
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 26 – Fall 2018
- July 1, 2018
1. A political group is spreading the perception that the country will again become Pakistan if Awami League loses control of Bangladesh. They even suggested a label “Banglastan” for this supposed nation which transforms into an improvised Pakistan in the East. But symptomatically it appears to become another Kashmir, or in a classical sense
READ MOREThe Rohingyas – Inside Myanmar’s Hidden Genocide, book review0
- Commentary, Featured, Issue 24 – Spring 2018, Reviews
- March 4, 2018
The scale and nature of the violence unleashed by the Myanmar authorities against the Rohingya have prompted a top United Nations official to describe the operation as a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing.” Human Rights Watch has concurred, and Amnesty International has called for an investigation into these criminal acts. The violence, underpinned by the
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