In the United Kingdom, for the last 70 years, we have been habituated to one royal figurehead, Queen Elizabeth II. Her long rule spanned the bleak austerity of the 1950s and a decrepit empire lurching toward its destruction to a post-pandemic Britain grasping for some direction and cohesion. It is amazing how much shock the […]
I am somewhat confused! Why is there such a hullabaloo over what Foreign Minister A K Momen said recently in Chattagram to his targeted Hindu audience? Has he said anything wrong or different from what goes on between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Bangladesh and India? Everyone in Dhaka knows about the Hasina-India Entente and that […]
Would India salvage the Hasina regime? A resounding, positive no is the answer. Contextualization of this hypothetical question is necessary before any further elaboration. A recent statement by the Bangladesh Foreign Minister, Abdul Momen, prompted this absurd question. By the way, the minister frequently makes absurd and embarrassing comments about himself, the government he represents, and the […]
“Truth is stranger than fiction. If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain The front-page news and editorial in the daily Ittefaq on August 16, 1975, stated, “A Public Relief; A Historic Beginning.” This was after the military coup the previous day. The popular daily was founded by Tofazzal […]
Two very significant global events took place in our time during the first four days of the week starting on July 31. In the early hours of Sunday morning, 31 July, a US drone killed Ayman al Zawahiri on the balcony of a posh apartment in Sherpur, an affluent suburb of Kabul. The precision of the […]
The arrogance of power is especially ominous and despicable when a government leader risks huge numbers of lives in order to make a provocative move on the world’s geopolitical chessboard. Nancy Pelosi’s plan to visit Taiwan is in that category. Thanks to her, the chances of a military confrontation between China and the United States have […]
Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads–-Socrates What was August 15? —- A Revolutionary act? A military coup? Or was it an overthrow of a despotic regime? Most people will point at either or all. But the Awami administration of Sheikh Hasina Wazed has given it a distorted color and dubbed it […]
Over the last two weeks, the UK’s so-called “Nasty Party” proved how nasty it could be. There are few things more divisive than a battle for the leadership of the British Conservatives. After all, it turns out that, much as many of their traditionalists do their best to maintain their party’s history of snobbery, chauvinism […]
All is not well in the state of Bangladesh. Here things are far worse than what Marcellus told Horatio in Hamlet: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. Since 2009, what dogged the Bangladeshi polity under the Hasina Regime – unbridled violence and massive corruption at every level of society – has turned into an […]
Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen arrived in India last month to fight political fires. But he found himself dealing with massive floods that hit Sylhet and Assam. Nature has its ways to convey that not all is well in India’s near-east. Far from the glitz about Bangladesh’s economic success, on display during the recent […]