A GOOD deal of analysis of the recent political upheaval in Bangladesh has focussed on the high-handedness and authoritarianism of Sheikh Hasina’s government; it has either missed altogether, or generally underplayed, the change that has occurred in the economic...
Photo: Bangladeshi Hindus fleeing to India for safety gather at the international border, Sitalkuchi, Cooch Behar, August 9, 2024
The exclusive report in today’s Economic Times carrying Sheikh Hasina’s first remarks after her ouster from power will come as a slap...
Ceylon Today 11 August 2024
Sri Lankans can pat themselves on the pat, though quietly or only in their minds. Decorum demands that any loud expression of self-appreciation over the Aragalaya setting the precedent for Bangladesh to follow in the shared...
On Monday, August 5, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina boarded a Bangladesh Air Force C-130J military transport in a hurry and fled to Hindon Air Force base, outside Delhi. Her plane was refueled and reports said that she intended...
Bangladesh has plunged into a severe political crisis, marked by the resignation and flight of a long-time prime minister Sheikh Hasina amid a mass uprising against her increasingly authoritarian rule. The unrest, which began as student-led protests against a...
In his congratulatory message to Maldives’ President-elect Mohamed Muizzu, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi reiterated on social media that ‘India remains committed to strengthening the time-tested… bilateral relationship and enhancing our overall cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region’. The...
A witness of politics around the world and its carnival poses a pertinent question of why politics has failed or has not. Ben Ansell in a thought-provoking book entitled Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World...
Politicising a bilateral issue with Mauritius after the now-muted ‘India Out’ campaign will have consequences in the long term for MaldivesAt a time when the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is at the centre of an ever-evolving post-Cold War geostrategic...
World politics is getting polarized with America and the West in one camp and authoritarian giants like Russia and China in the opposite camp. Meanwhile, India, Turkey, South America, African continental powers and other developed countries are middling either...
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