BANGLADESH
Indo-Bangla relations and the “termite” problem
0 comments | by Afsan Chowdhury
Indian’s ruling party BJP leader Amit Shah has called ‘illegal Bangladeshis’ as “termites” which will be cleaned out from the woodwork of Assam in particular. Its not just the unseemly language coming from a major political leader of the most powerful state around that is disturbing. Its also an indicator of the heightened tension in the
Read Full ArticleBangladeshi politics and media: Strange bedfellows?
0 comments | by Afsan Chowdhury
Bangladesh is well known for a flourishing media, rights violations of journalists and political activism rather than excellence. Media workers imagine themselves more as human rights and political activists than professionals. Many see themselves as frontline workers in the struggle to establish freedom and democracy. Often such pursuits follow the party lines of the two major players in Bangl
Read Full ArticleBangladeshi politics and media: Strange bedfellows?
0 comments | by Afsan Chowdhury
Bangladesh is well known for a flourishing media, rights violations of journalists and political activism rather than excellence. Media workers imagine themselves more as human rights and political activists than professionals. Many see themselves as frontline workers in the struggle to establish freedom and democracy. Often such pursuits follow the party lines of the
Read Full ArticleAssam: Why India denying Bengali Migrants?
0 comments | by Rajeev Ahmad
Since Muslim bashing ultra-Hinduism is the main driving force of Modi government, Assam has been observing a series of discontent and violence between these two religious groups. It appears as a successful strategy because the anti-Muslim Bengali sentiment is rising within the total demography. Assam acco
Read Full ArticleThe Absurdity of the New ‘Great Game’ in Central Asia
0 comments | by Lyle J. Goldstein
When the American people went to the polls in November 2016, they could be forgiven for thinking they had elected a president who might just bring the troops home from Afghanistan. After nearly seventeen years of grinding war in that poor, desolate and ultimately ins
Read Full ArticleThe NRC Fallout – An exercise of complexities and exclusion
0 comments | by Mohammed Tahsin
The world is awash with thousands of anecdotes about large-scale migration of people to places away from their homelands. Compelled by reasons to escape persecution, evade conflicts, economic and nature-driven pressures, et al. Ideally to make a living, which erupts from a longing for infrastructure, homogenous and pervasive, quintessential for survival. However, a deliberate reducing of millions
Read Full ArticleElection Results Could be Good for Pakistan, Bad for US
0 comments | by Graham E. Fuller
A bold new political face has come to power in the recent Pakistani elections, possibly offering the US a new opportunity in that country. Sadly the opportunity will likely be squandered—again. There’s something about Pakistani and US interests that seem doomed to collision course—mainly because Pakistan’s national interests are rarely what the US thinks they should be. Pakistanis themselv
Read Full ArticleBangladeshi Regional Migration Could Plunge South Asia Into War
0 comments | by Andrew Korybko
Whether part of a preplanned strategy or not, large-scale migration flows often destabilize the destination country, and India and Myanmar are bracing for the geopolitical consequences of the Bangladeshis within their borders acquiring a firmer sense of identity separateness from their hosts. Ivy League researcher Kelly M. Greenhill’s revolutionary concept about “Weapons of Mass Migration”
Read Full ArticleCarnage in Bangladesh Faced with a number of murderous attacks on individuals
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Faced with a number of murderous attacks on individuals that included secular bloggers, Hindus, Buddhist and Christians, at least some of them claimed by IS or Al Qaeda, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid categorically stated that neither the IS or Al Qaeda had a foothold in Bangladesh and that the perpetrators were locals in terms of both breeding and instigation.&
Read Full ArticleBangladesh need to unlock the unbalanced environment to tackle climate change!
0 comments | by Rajon Md. Shahabuddin
Can you imagine ever? When we need water we just switch on water pump and get water but that will not be the case in less than a de
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