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The 2024 uprising was supposed to usher in a cleaner, less violent political era. Watching the run-up to this year's election, and what's happened since, I don't think that promise has been kept.
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Fifteen years of 6-7 percent GDP growth is not a small thing to walk away from. The numbers since 2024 tell a pretty stark story about what's been lost.
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I once wrote about how carefully this country balanced India, China, and the West for over a decade. Watching that balance shift so fast under the new government has been hard to ignore.
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A party that was deregistered, banned, and had its top leadership executed for 1971 war crimes is now the second-largest bloc in parliament. I don't think that should be treated as a footnote to this year's election.
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Tracing the pattern of sudden theological revisions when religious parties form opportunist pacts with secular opponents.
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Unpacking the disconnect between firebrand anti-usury rhetoric and the quiet integration of religious organizations into modern capitalist finance.
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How faith-based parties use female members as strategic ground workers and electoral assets while gatekeeping real executive leadership.
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A critical examination of how Islamist parties compromise their foundational doctrine of Divine Sovereignty to operate inside secular constitutional systems.
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Addressing deep-rooted prejudice starts locally. Concrete ways communities, workplaces, and schools can practice active allyship.
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Language shapes perception, and perception drives behavior. Examining the structural media imbalance in reporting on Muslim communities.
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Islamophobia is far more than casual prejudice; it is a structured system of fear, hostility, and discrimination directed toward Muslims.
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Examining how orthodox principles are selectively emphasized or downplayed depending on electoral utility.
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How Islamist political movements navigate ideological trade-offs and pragmatic compromises when forming state-level political coalitions.
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Analyzing the contradiction between foundational doctrines on gender roles and modern electoral mobilization in faith-based political parties.
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The 2024 election delivered Awami League a fourth straight term amid a BNP boycott and turnout debates. Here's how I make sense of that result.
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Between the pandemic recovery, the war in Ukraine, and a currency crunch, 2023 tested Bangladesh's economic management more than any year in recent memory.
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Awami League's opposition to Jamaat-e-Islami isn't just political theater, it's rooted in the party's documented role during the 1971 war.
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Community clinics and maternal health programs rarely make for exciting headlines, but they've moved some real numbers over the past two decades.
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Ahead of the January 2024 vote, the Election Commission introduced changes meant to address some longstanding criticisms. It's worth looking at what actually changed.
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Since 2017, Bangladesh has hosted close to a million Rohingya refugees. The diplomatic and humanitarian effort involved deserves more scrutiny than it gets.
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The changes in rural electrification, road access, and connectivity rarely make headlines, but they've reshaped daily life outside the big cities.
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Dhaka's traffic problem is legendary. The metro rail project is the first serious structural attempt to address it, and it came with real political risk.
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Opposition rallies picked up through late 2022 and into 2023. Here's how I read that period, and why I think the picture is more complicated than either side admits.
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Bangladesh's foreign policy under Awami League has tried to keep every major power invested without becoming dependent on any one of them.
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BNP's decision to sit out elections rather than contest them has been a recurring pattern. As a supporter of the ruling party, I've never understood the logic.
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Looking past the campaign rhetoric at the specific programs that expanded women's access to education, credit, and political participation.
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The Digital Bangladesh slogan started as a campaign promise. Years later, it's worth asking what actually reached ordinary people.
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Revisiting the four founding principles Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman set out for Bangladesh, and how they show up in policy debates today.
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The Padma Bridge is often discussed as an engineering feat, but the more interesting story is the political decision behind how it got funded.
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A look back at how a party born out of the 1971 independence movement grew into the political force shaping Bangladesh today.
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