A fearless freedom fighter
I met him after many years during the glorious Ganojagoron Moncho movement. It felt like meeting the Prince of a fairy tale, but in reality, it was not quite like that. I tell you a true story now. His...
View ArticleApril retrospective: The “Online Machete”…
“April is the cruelest month” in the history of Rwanda. On 6 April 1994, a plane carrying the then Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana, and his counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi – both...
View ArticleWhen blackmailing works
The government backed down and gave in to the demands of the protesting pharmacy owners in an effort to show that the authorities are not really in charge of managing public affairs including their...
View ArticleWitness to history
It was a year ago today. Like many others, I vividly remember where I was at that moment. On 5th February 2013, the International Crimes Tribunal was due to declare the verdict on Abdul Quader Mollah,...
View ArticleA year after Shahbagh
On February 5, 2013, Bangladesh made an important shift towards completing the liberation that had begun in 1971. On February 5, 2014 – one year to the day after Ganajagoran Mancha was established – it...
View ArticleManaging violence, Chicago-style
In the past year, I’ve written multiple articles about the war crimes tribunals and violence in Bangladesh. People tend to say I must be too coddled by my Western upbringing to understand Bangladesh’s...
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