The revolution ending Sheikh Hasina’s 16 years of authoritarian rule has been one of the most tumultuous periods in recent Bangladesh history. While her government had overseen infrastructure development and economic progress over the prior decades, many had become frustrated by her increasingly authoritarian rule and the lack of freedoms.
Duty, Restraint, and the Search for Equilibrium: The Bangladesh Army 2024–2026
Over the past two years, the Bangladesh Army has occupied a uniquely sensitive position in...
India-US Trade Deal: An “Interim” Agreement?
Described as “father of all deals,” the new turn in India-US trade “deal” has gained...
Women Turned Weapons: Terrorism in Balochistan
There is something uniquely cruel about turning victims into weapons. In Balochistan, this cruelty has...
Bangladesh’s Domestic Shuffle and Foreign Outlook Before the February Election
Bangladesh is entering a volatile period ahead of its next general election on February 12th....
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Fall 2025: Issue 43
Nepal’s Digital Uprising: Discord, Corruption, and the Future of South Asia
When Kathmandu’s skyline turned red with fire on the evening of September 10, 2025, few...
Exposing the Failure of India’s Kashmir Policy
In September 2024, addressing a jubilant rally of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters, Indian Prime...
Pahalgam Massacre – A Case of Diversionary Strategy to Bust India’s Normalcy Narrative in Kashmir
Retaliating to India’s coercive measures following the massacre of 26 tourists in Pahalgam, Kashmir, responsibility...
Speaking Eye-to-Eye with India
Nobel Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus has repeatedly emphasized the importance of regional cooperation for the...
Foreign Hands Fetish and Domestic Fire: On Intelligence Power, Uprisings, and the Decline of Iranian Sovereignty
Iran does not exist in the contemporary world order as a client state or as...
US military intervention in Iran could spark hostilities not just in the Gulf and Israel, but also Turkey and Azerbaijan
A US military intervention in Iran doesn’t just risk exposing Gulf states and Israel to...
WE, The Peoples, Time and Earth are Victims of Wars
In an age of ignorance, time had no meaning and power knew not the logic...
Jihad in Plain Sight: Understanding the Empire
All day, every day, Western countries lecture the world about being civilized, respecting human rights,...
Iran’s Supreme Leader is caught in a Catch-22
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is caught between a rock and a hard place....
The Rohingya case could redefine genocide and that matters for ASEAN
As hearings concluded on 30 January at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Rohingya...
US policy in post- election Myanmar
Myanmar has yet to attract serious attention from President Trump. The silence might seem surprising,...
Myanmar junta wraps election with ally set to seal victory
: Voting concluded in Myanmar's month-long election on Sunday (Jan 25), with the dominant pro-military...
Myanmar stages first phase of polling with thin turnout
The military-ruled Myanmar (earlier known as Burma and Brahmadesh) staged the first phase of general...
Myanmar’s “general’s election” has failed before it has even started
On 15 December, at a press conference in Yangon, Myanmar’s deputy minister for information, Major...
Are Bangladesh's youth turning against India?
Graffiti - angry, witty, sometimes poetic - sprawls across walls and corridors, echoing the Gen...
Hindutva mob gathers outside Hindu man’s door for defending Muslim shopkeeper; Rahul calls him ‘hero of India’
“I am not a Hindu, I am not a Muslim, I am not a Sikh,...
“Indian Government Has Normalized Violence Against Minorities and Critics,” Human Rights Watch Says
A man sleeps on a wooden plank amid the rubble of his demolished home near...
With international law at a ‘breaking point’, a tiny country goes after Myanmar’s junta on its own
Min Aung Hlaing, Senior General, Myanmar Emma Palmer, Griffith University Just four months ago,...
How Pakistan Got Divided: Memoirs of Rao Farman Ali Khan Review
Imagine living through a national tragedy only to watch the most powerful architects of that...
