EIGHTEEN months on from the momentous mass protests which upended political life in Bangladesh, the long-awaited general election has finally come to pass, ushering in what many are celebrating as a new era of popular sovereignty.
TWO years in, the regime’s economic managers continue telling tales about streets flowing with milk and honey ... The numbers are certainly eye-catching ... One only has to scratch slightly beneath the surface to reveal what the numbers really mean.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. now is the time of monsters” — Antonio Gramsci. THE more things change, the more they stay the same ... The combination of bravado and terror portends more darkness ahead ... There isn’t one.